February 14, 2025 • 53 mins
Join us on this episode of Pop Culture Weekly as Kyle McMahon and guest Amanda Baez explore the world of anti-Valentine's Day movies - movies that will make you glad you're single or make you wish you were.
We kick off with a lively discussion on the origins and relevance of Valentine's Day, questioning whether it's more of a heartfelt celebration or a commercial holiday created to sell greeting cards and candy.
Then dive into the feature presentation as Kyle and Amanda explore some of their favorite anti Valentine's Day movies. From the hilarious "The Lost City" with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum to the mind-bending "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," their choices of films offer a refreshing look at movies which challenge conventional narratives surrounding love, romance and relationships.
Whether you're celebrating love or enjoying the single life, we've got movie recommendations to suit every mood on Valentine's Day, during a break up or anytime else.
Kyle McMahon's Death, Grief & Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss is now streaming: https://www.deathandgrief.show/Chapter-One-The-Diagnosis-AKA-WTF/
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We kick off with a lively discussion on the origins and relevance of Valentine's Day, questioning whether it's more of a heartfelt celebration or a commercial holiday created to sell greeting cards and candy.
Then dive into the feature presentation as Kyle and Amanda explore some of their favorite anti Valentine's Day movies. From the hilarious "The Lost City" with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum to the mind-bending "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," their choices of films offer a refreshing look at movies which challenge conventional narratives surrounding love, romance and relationships.
Whether you're celebrating love or enjoying the single life, we've got movie recommendations to suit every mood on Valentine's Day, during a break up or anytime else.
Kyle McMahon's Death, Grief & Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss is now streaming: https://www.deathandgrief.show/Chapter-One-The-Diagnosis-AKA-WTF/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, it's all about
anti Valentine's Day movies that'll make you glad you're single.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let's go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon
from My Heart Radio, your pop culture news, views, reviews
and celebrity interviews on all the movies, TV, music, and
pop culture u CRABE Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Netta Net, Hello, and welcome to pop Culture Weekly with
Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon, and I
welcome you. Thank you for joining me on the latest
episode of pop Culture Weekly. I once again have Amanda
Biez joining me for this episode. So today, in celebration
(00:50):
or anti celebration of Valentine's Day, we're doing anti Valentine's
Day movies, movies that make you wish your single or
make you glad you're single. And I thought this was
fun because I don't know. I think Valentine's Day is
just a ridiculous holiday that was literally created by greeting
(01:10):
card companies to sell stuff that you should be showing
these sentiments all year.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm not really a big Valentine's Day person, maybe because
I'm single, but I don't hate it. You know, I
actually enjoy watching other people, you know, in love, and
I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, I have no problems with love or whatever, like
that's cool obviously. I just think it's a dumb holiday.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Like why it's just a holiday about showing that you
love your significant others.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, but you should be showing that all year.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, I know what you mean, But I mean you
could say the same thing for you know, for Christmas.
Why do you have to only look at your family
during the holidays. I mean you should be calling them
all the time. I do, I know, but just for
other people.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, But like Christmas is like a religious holiday observed
on December twenty fifth. Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day
or the Feast of Saint Valentine is considered actually a
Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine. But I
feel like it was a holiday created by you know,
(02:19):
greeting card companies to sell greeting cards and candy and stuff,
you know what I mean. Yeah, And so I don't know,
you should be going on a date with your Valentine,
you know, throughout the year.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, And when people do that it's just that this holiday,
I guess, enforces it more. Yeah, which I don't think
is a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
No, No, I get it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I don't know. I think that I'm thinking more about
healthy relationships, you know, relationships that are those stable relationships,
like stable relationships where you know, Valentine's Day is just
you go a little bit more because of you know,
it being enforced. I don't know. I think that I
like Valentine's Day, you know, even as a single person,
(03:05):
because it's just nice to see, you know, the world
connect with their significant other, even though I don't have one,
which I'm I'm okay with. Yeah, but I just think
it's really nice to see.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I don't know, I don't obviously, I've you know, been
in relationships during Valentine's Day and stuff, and it's you know,
it's nice to like just just kind of arbitrary. I
don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't know. It gives a hater maybe maybe you're
a little bitter.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Not bitter, I just so this Wikipedia says that Valentine's
Day is a major source of economic activity, with total
expenditures topping eighteen point two billion dollars each year, which
is one hundred and thirty six dollars per person wo
which is insane. Now that's including giving cards to your mom,
(03:54):
your sister, your you know if you're in school, or
your little friends Valentine and like stuff like that. But
I don't know, what do you guys think? Use the
talkback button. If you're on the iHeartRadio app, It's free
and it comes right to us, and let me know
what you think about Valentine's Day. Is it a sham,
(04:15):
is it a you know? What do you think? Or
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that comes directly to me. So in celebration of Valentine's Day,
we are doing the top anti Valentine's Day movies that
(04:38):
make you wish you were single or or make make you,
you know, happy that you're single. So we'll get to that,
but before we do, it's time for what do we
watch this week? So I watched Heart Eyes, which is
(04:59):
so so good and I'm actually going to talk about
that later in the show. But I also saw the Monkey.
I saw a screening of The Monkey because I'm going
to be interviewing the cast. So The Monkey is based
on a nineteen eighty horror short story by Stephen King
that has like this essentially this monkey toy and it's
(05:21):
cursed and every time the drum hits crazy death happens.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I feel like I've heard this storyline before.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well it's from nineteen eighty. So it's so good. So
it's written and directed by Osgood Perkins, who did I
love him. He's done The Black Coat's Daughter, I Am
the Pretty Things that the pretty thing that lives in
the house Gretel and Hansel, which I loved Long Legs,
which we both have to watch that movie. Yeah. Now
(05:53):
The Monkey is his new one, and it is so good.
It is outlandish and crazy and darkly funny. Really yeah,
I didn't expect it to be funny, and it's like
darkly funny, yeah, very much. So it is really really great.
I love it, and the cast is great. Theo James
(06:17):
stars in it and he's incredible. It's it's just so
good and I can't wait. It comes out February twenty
first in theaters, and I can't wait for everybody to
see it next episode, we're going to have the cast on.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, so I'm really excited for that. Neon is releasing
the film Love Neon. They always have great projects. They've
done stuff like Long Legs, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady
on Fire, Palm Springs. You know, they're great, great companies.
So in an event, put that on your list to see.
I just want you to put it on your radar now,
(06:53):
especially if you're a horror fan. This is the one
to watch and comes out February twenty first, put it
on your calendar now to go see that opening weekend.
You're not gonna want to miss it. So that's what
I saw this week. I also finally twenty minutes left,
but I started smile too, which is amazing and terrifying,
And it was actually so disturbing that I ended up
(07:14):
turning the lights on as I watched.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Way.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, it was very disturbing.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I can imagine watching it in the movie theater in
the doork. Yeah, it was insane. When I watched it.
I watched it probably only one couple behind us, and
needless to say, when the end credits came on, we
were right behind that couple they were leaving, and I'm like,
you know what, me too, We're we're not staying in
(07:38):
this theater a second longer. That movie is one of
my favorite movies ever. I don't know why I love
it so much.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's a great movie and I still have twenty minutes
to go to find out how it all right?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
What do you think is going to happen at the end.
I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Okay, that's valid because I didn't know either.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, we'll talk about it more next week. Okay, after
I finish it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But I can't believe you ended it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I think I fell asleep or something, not because because
it was like four am. Oh, and I was like
trying to stay up and I'm like, just twenty more minutes,
you got this, And yeah, it didn't happen. In any event,
What did you watch?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I've watched a couple of movies because I'm trying to
prepare for the Oscars. Yeah, so I watched Amelia Perez.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, how was that?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't complicated.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
It is a complicated movie to describe. I mean, the
storyline was interesting. I will say that it was nothing
that I had ever seen before. I went into the
movie not really knowing what to expect. I didn't know
anything about this movie except that it was about a lawyer.
That's literally all that I knew. And within the first
fifteen minutes I was questioning everything about this movie.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I just in a good way, in.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
A curious way, in a curious way as to how
in the world is this movie going to go? I
just I didn't see where the vision was heading. And
it was a musical. The music was extremely, extremely disappointing,
and the songs I felt lasted for forty seconds, thirty seconds,
like they weren't even minute long songs. Okay, and it
(09:15):
just wasn't it for me. But towards the you know,
the middle of the movie, I feel like it's sort
of picking up. It's an interesting movie, it really is,
but I don't think that it's something that I would
watch again. Okay, Yeah, I didn't really know how to
feel about the whole entire plot, you know, and premise
(09:36):
of it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And what else did you watch?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I watched Hard Eyes as well, okay, and I watched
Kunk Clive, Kunk.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
C Live, Oh Concave co O n c Ave.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No c and cl Oh wait, yeah, yeah, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I was like, wait, maybe it's just talking about a
different movie.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, I watched that movie.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Okay? That one was really interesting?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay. I almost started watching that and then was like,
I don't know if I'm in the mood for it
right now. So I did it, but it's still on
my list.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean, it's not a movie that I would gravitate towards,
but I do have to say that it was interesting
to look at from a perspective of someone who is
not Catholic. The whole entire process of determining the new Pope.
I don't even know that was a real thing.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh okay, And.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So it was like really eye opening to me. And
it was a little juicy. It had a little drama
to it. It's like old people drama, I think, you know.
I mean, this is a movie for I feel it's
catered more so towards adults. It's just dialogue, you know,
So it's like, you know, it's really just based on that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
There's no murder plot, like an assassin or something.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I really was hoping, I was honestly hoping that there
would be something a little juicy, like the Pope was
like a fraud or something. I don't know, but it was.
It was really interesting. You know. I don't think I
would watch it again, but I could appreciate you know,
the whole entire you know, plot of it, okay, and
the scenes, the shots, These shots were so amazing. Yeah,
I do gotta say, like the cinematography for this movie
(11:08):
was so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I okay, so I'll definitely watch it. Then I did
grow up Catholic, and it's kind of wild what Catholicism.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
No, like the whole entire process to get to get
a new pope. Oh yeah, yeah, like I didn't even
know that was a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yep, yep. And that's why I think I definitely interested
in it, you know, and it's gotten rave reviews, so like,
you know, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I didn't think it was Yeah, I didn't think it
was like an amazing film, but like I could appreciate
what the director was trying to accomplish. It's just I'm
not Catholic, you know, I'm not really into that kind
of you know, dialogue based movie. So it's like I
don't want to base it off of my opinions.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, no, I totally get it. I'm gonna watch it.
I mean I was going to any way, but yeah,
now I'm like even more.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
A right, next up, what's out this week? All right,
So there's some awesome movies coming out this week. Captain America,
Brave New World. I'm so hyped to see this me too.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I can't help I really love Anthony Mackie as Captain America. Yeah,
I just I mean that amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, I'm also curious. I heard it sets the stage
for the next Avengers movies. I'm just excited. I'm always
excited when I knew MCU movie comes out. So, yeah,
Paddington in Peru. Did you see the other Paddington movies?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I didn't. I really want to watch them, though, I've.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Heard they're like, really really good.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I've heard that too, which I wouldn't really expect. I know,
people are very passionate about them.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They really are, and I don't know why. But I mean,
I'm not against it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, it's just it's just kind of I didn't I
wouldn't expect it for a movie like that. Yeah, but
people apparently are very excited that it's coming out, and
they're very passionate about this franchise right, and I don't know.
I don't know's it's not really a franchise that I
would think would have such passionate fans. Yeah, you know,
(13:16):
but I'm not gonna knock it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
In music, Drake is releasing a new album with Party
next Door, and I'm like so anti Drake. Now. I
used to love him, and then I just like feel
like I just saw through the facade. Like, Bro, you're
not hardcore. You grow up rich in Canada. Take a seat, bro. Anyway,
so he releases a new album called Some Sexy Songs
(13:41):
for You. Sabrina Carpenter releases the deluxe edition of Short
and Sweet. I am really falling for a Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I love her.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
She is like so funny she is.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
She's hilarious. Her skits always have me cracking up.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, she's so funny. So I'll definitely check out the
deluxe edition of Short and Sweet. And then in streaming
Waitress the musical, which is do you know who Sarah
burrellis is?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah? I know her.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So she wrote this musical called Waitress, which is I
believe based on a movie, and but now she made
it into a musical and it went on Broadway and
now there's a movie they filmed, like the Broadway show.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Oh, like how Hamilton did it?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yes, okay, So that's out on Max. The Gorge with
Anna Taylor Joy and Miles Teller is out on Apple
TV Plus, and that looks really good. It's kind of
like a mystery scary sort of thing where there are
two trained operatives that are on opposite sides of like
this big gorge in the earth and their mission is
(14:51):
to like keep these creatures from coming out, and so
they kind of have this like long distance relationship through radio,
you know, talking on like walkey to and stuff. So
it looks pretty interesting. I'm excited for that. And then
Cobra Kai Season six, Part three comes out, which if
you're a fan of Cobra Kai, this looks awesome. The
(15:13):
White Lotus did you watch any of that? No? I didn't, Okay,
So it's like a social satire.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Is it a show?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It is a show. Every season is kind of its
own thing. So season three comes out on Max and
then Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy. It's like the
fourth Bridget Jones movie.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Who was Bridget Jones?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't even know? It was like I never watched
any of them because they just looked they weren't for me. Yeah,
I think they were like romance movies. Yeah. And then
Better Man is out on digital to purchase.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I really wanted to watch that in theaters. I'm actually
really bummed out. I haven't seen it, and let me
tell you why, because our regal took it out like
the second day that it was released. Because I swear
I really was going to watch it after you told
me about how good it was. I went on letter
box and the reviews are really good, and I was like, oh, okay,
like this seems like really good. Actually, yeah, I wanna
(16:08):
go watch it and literally no showing.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, you will love it. So when you can rent
or buy it, it is so amazing. One of my
favorites of the year easily. And then Flow, which is
a two time Oscar nominee. It's dialogue free. There's no
talking throughout the whole movie. It's like animated.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh it's up for Best Animation.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah. So it's like this little black cat is struggling
to survive after the flood and then he gets like
stranded on a sailboat with all these other animals and
so he kind of has to learn to cooperate with
the rest of the animals in order to stay alive. Yeah,
so that is out on Max as well. I haven't
seen that, but I do want to see it. I'll
(16:52):
probably check it out this weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Watch it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah so flow, So that's what's out this week. All right,
We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,
we are going to get into Anti Valentine's Day movies.
So we'll be back in sixty see you that all right.
(17:15):
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event Anti Valentine's Day Movies. The movies that make you
(17:41):
glad you're single or make you wish you were single.
So I have a list of ten, which you'll find
on my blog popculturewekly dot com. But we're going to
go through five of them today and U F five
two right.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yes, so, And they're in chronological order.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Of when they were released, of how much I like them, Okay, mine,
not in any order, they're just there. But Valentine's Day,
you and I have talked about this before, but and
we talked about it at the top of the show.
This is for people that just ain't feeling it today.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
People that are bitter no, and heartbroken no, and haven't
found their person and are low key very sad about
it but don't want to express it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I have no problems being like, first of all, I
don't need a relation joke. No, I know it's I know.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I can tell you're very triggered by it, though I'm
not okay, sorry, You're fine.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm not bitter like I I am not the type
of person who needs to be in a relationship to
have validation period. Like I said, even when I was
in relationships, I was just like, eh, it's just another day,
Like so it's just another day Valentine's I mean, oh yeah,
I thought you were waking up thinking that every day.
(19:01):
Oh no. So this main event is for those people
who just start feeling it today. You know, maybe they
they're listening on Valentine's Day to this or before or
after or whatever anytime throughout the year and you're just like,
maybe you did just go through a breakup, or maybe
you're just like screw love, yeah today or maybe you're
just like, oh, I hate romancey cute stuff. It's also
(19:24):
cliche in film. Let me watch things that aren't that.
So that's what today's about. So what is your first one?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
My first one at number five is The Lost City.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The Lost City, Oh and Channing Tatum.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, I love that movie. I thought a movie when
it came out, and it was so funny to me.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I actually did watch this in the theaters. Yeah, and
I did love it because it is very much an
anti Valentine's Day movie.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
It's so funny. I just love her character. I can't
remember her name. I just loved her character, and he
was they were just so opposite. They worked so well. Yeah,
because opposite the track. Yeah, I don't know. It was
just it was just such a joy to watch.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, it was really funny. It was not cliche. I
feel like Loretta. Yes, Loretta Loretta Sage was a former
archaeology researcher who writes romance novels centered on the fictional
fictional doctor Angela Lovemore and her romantic interest Dash McMahon.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, yes, yes, Oh my goodness. And then Brad Pitt's character,
Oh god, yeah, oh my goodness cracked me up. I
really was laughing so much in that theater.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah that is that actually is you know, that's a
great choice. I didn't even think about that one. That
is a really funny movie, very much anti Valentine's Day.
And you know what, even if you are happily in
a relationship, like, it's a great movie. Yeah, you know,
it's funny, there's adventure, the cast is great, like, yeah,
(20:58):
it's just that's a good one, all right. So my
first one is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which
you've never seen.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Right, No, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Shocking, So it is a sci fi romantic drama kind
of its stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunn, s
Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, great cat huh all people that I really like.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, amazing cast. And basically it's these two people who
were in love who undergo a procedure to get their
memory erase so they can forget each other after they
break up. What Yeah, it is, You've got to it
is so good and it is how do you It
(21:54):
is unique. I've never seen a movie like this. It's
it's very much not your typical stays in the lines.
You know what I'm saying. It is very much its
own thing. It is heartbreaking, it is good, it is
thought provoking. It made me think, Shoot, would I get
(22:15):
a memory procedure to erase somebody?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Would you?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I feel like I haven't met anybody as horrible to
do that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Maybe not even necessarily horrible as it is heartbreaking. Maybe
I loved you so much and it just didn't work
out for whatever reason. You moved away for a job
and I couldn't move, And it's just so painful that
I don't even want to think about it. You know,
it's very thought provoking, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I still don't think I would do it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I don't think I would.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I think that that type of things is what makes
a person that, you know, It's what helps them grow
as a person.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, And you know, I always it's just like death.
You know. I grieve my mom all the time. I
love her so much and I miss her every day.
But you can't have the highs without the lows, right,
you know what I mean. I grieve so hard because
I love her so much, You know what I mean.
One has to come with the other, Yeah, or you
(23:14):
can't just be happy all the time or that's just normal,
which means you don't have the highs. You just have
this bassline all the time, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
And it's not reality to be happy all the time, right,
you know? And to have good perception to someone all
the time. Yeah, like that's not really reality.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yep. Absolutely, So you've got to check out this movie.
It is really incredible. It's become like this cult classic
and one of the most interesting films I've ever seen
by far.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm gonna check it out.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Really great. Yeah, it won Best Original Screenplay at the
Academy Awards. That won the Oscar for that one Best
Original Screenplay at the British Academy Film Awards. Actually, you
know the Halsey song Ashley.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I love that song.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So the dialogue in Ashley is from the movie Oh.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No Way, Okay. I definitely gotta watch it. Yeah, because
hald is one of my favorite artists of all time.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yep. And the track Clementine that comes right after that, yes, yes,
that is titled after Kate Winslet's character in the film.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I'm putting this on my thing right now. Yeah, because
that just screams a movie that I would love.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, it's incredible. So in any event, Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind is on my list for sure. So
all right, what's your next one?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
So my fourth one is Gone Girl.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yes with Ben Affleck. Yes, I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I love that movie. It is so good. What do
you love about it?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I just think that it's very dramatic. Yeah, and she's
freaking psycho. What's Amy? Amy's freaking psycho. When I first
saw it, I was thinking to myself, what in the world, Well,
let me not say when I first saw it, because
I read the book.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I read the book first because one of my good
friends wanted me to read this book and I had
no idea what it was about. So she told me
a little gist of it, you know, and I was like, Okay,
I like murder Mysteries, and I'm reading this book and
it's very detailed, and I'm like thinking to myself, what
is happening. It's such a psychological thriller that it literally
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takes the book and just embodies it in the movie. Okay,
because you know how sometimes book and movie adaptations are
just complete terrible. No, this one, it's like they speak
lines word for word, not all of them, but it's
like it's very, very close. I don't know, it's just
so insane the lengths that this woman was willing to
take me. I would have just left. And that's it.
(25:49):
I don't know. I was just watching this movie and
it for the first time, and it was like, yeah,
this is psychotic.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah. I had never read the book, but I did
see the movie, and I you know, I really like
Ben Affleck. Obviously do like as an actor.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No, I like him as an actor.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know that's what I mean. Oh okay, yeah, no,
I love love him as an actor. I love the
director David Fincher and Rosamund Pike, who's been on the show.
Shout out to her. She plays Amy. So I was like, okay,
I'm in. It looks like a cool psychological thriller like
mystery blah blah blah, and I was hooked on it.
It is really, really a great movie. I actually I
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haven't watched it in a while, so I wanna you know,
you've made me want to pull it back out. That
is a good one.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah. We watched it, I think on Tuesday. Oh, okay,
for the for the podcast, ye. I was like, I
want to watch it again. I haven't seen it in
a while, and I don't know watching it from my
perspective now that I'm a little older versus the time
that I did watch it when I was a little younger,
I just really see how unhinged this movie is. And
I don't know. She's just very she was very determined.
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You know, I can I can. I can respect that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh I thought you're gonna say I can relate.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I was like, no way.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I mean, and the fact that what was his name, Nick,
The fact that all Nick did was just honestly fall
out of love, Like he didn't I mean he did cheat.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, he did cheat, but he wasn't like like violent
violent towards her. I mean, yeah, he pushed her a
couple of times, but it's like you got people that
are beating their wives for you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Went from he didn't really do anything wrong to well,
he cheated and he kind of physically assaulted her besides that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Okay, but like honestly, yeah, but no, you know what yet,
I don't know. I just think that just leave. Yeah,
you know, he fell out of love with you, he cheated, Okay,
he pushed you I mean just you know, maybe do
something a little less mundane. But like, I don't know,
it was just I would have liked that if Nick
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was like this raging alcoholic, you know what I mean,
like like this is such a terrible, terrible person. I mean,
he was a bad person, but I don't think that
he was like the fact that he was just like
regular guy.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I mean, minus the cheating and the physical abuse.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
But oh that's regular guys. I oh my god, am
I But but you know, I just think that she
was just doing a little too much.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, she was doing a lot too much. But it
is a really great I do really love that movie. Yeah,
I'm glad you said that because I want to pull
that back out. All right. Well, my next one is
Blue Valentine. I know that you haven't seen this one.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Have you seen this one?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But how would you know if I haven't?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I just know. So. Blue Valentine is a movie with
Ryan Gosling Michelle Williams. Have you seen it?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I haven't exactly, but it's basically a you okay there. Yeah,
I was just trying to think of how to say
it without spoilers. It's about a married couple Michelle Williams
and Ryan Gosling, and like the film shifts back and
forth through their time from when they first met to
essentially their divorce years later. So it kind of goes
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back and forth throughout it, and it's done really, really well,
and it's I think what it is is such a
different take on like, oh, a drama where people fall
out of love and divorce. That that's what makes it
super interesting. And then the actors, I mean Ryan Gosling
and Michelle Williams, like they're awesome, incredible actors. So and
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then you know, combine that with the story how the
storytelling is done of like going back and forth through time.
It's just super creative and really good, I think.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
So it's just a movie about marriage and divorce.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes, but it's like how it's done.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But it's more complex than that, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
So it's it's just super it's told we're going back
and forth in time basically, so is it.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Like past and presence exactly present kind of like gone girl,
how they were.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Going back in yep. So it it's just unique and
how they're telling the story of this romantic partnership that
turns into a marriage that turns into divorce, you know
what I mean. So I love it for that reason.
It's just not your run of the mill drama about divorce.
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It's a great movie. It made a ton of top
ten lists that year twenty ten as movie of the year,
like The AP Club San Francisco Chronicle USA Today put
it at third their third best film of the year.
I mean, it's a really yeah, it's a really really
great movie that I think it very much encapsulates anti Valentine's.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Day and it's a drama.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yes, yep. And Ryan Glossling Michelle Williams like, yeah, totally
and yeah yep. So add that to your list.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I gotta check that out.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
What's your next one?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So my next one, my number three is Anura.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Is this the recent one?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yes, Mikey Madison. It's dominated for like.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
A million Yeah, keep going.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I saw that movie last year. So basically it's about
a stripper sex worker.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh yes, okay, keep going.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Okay, it's about it. Basically, it's about a stripper sex
worker and she gets into this whole entire situationship with
this rich guy from Russia. They basically get married. I mean,
you could see in the trailer. They get married and
and then there's a whole entire situation of trying to
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basically fight the marriage the parents, Oh okay, got you,
and they've just roamed through through New York and it's
just so Cinderella gone wrong type of movie. I don't know,
I loved it. I mean, I love Mikey Madison, yeah
so much. Like her acting was so amazing in this movie.
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It was just such a rollercoaster to see it on
the big because I watched it in theaters. I don't know,
it was so extremely funny and I just felt like
I felt like her, not with the whole like sex workers,
but her attitude towards.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Life maybe what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Pause? But her attitude towards like life, and her attitude
of how people treat her and how she basically defends
herself and she is not afraid to like speak her mind.
Like I saw myself in her in that point of view,
and it was just so funny because she's a fighter.
I don't know, Like, her character was just so complex
and it's really sad beside, like when you look underneath
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all of the comedy and all of the you know,
like drama, Itah, it's a really sad message that this
movie is sending out. Okay, I hope it wins something
from the Oscars because it honestly deserves it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So Sean Baker is the writer and director of this film,
and I love Sean. Sean is he did the Florida Project.
Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Okay, Florida Project is so good. He has a very
different way of how he makes films, like the Florida Project.
I think that was the one he used all iPhones
to make a film. Or No, that was Tangerine. I
think he used all iPhones the Florida.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Project, like to film the movie. Yeah, yeah, what, Yeah,
that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It was Tangerine that was filmed with an iPhone. The
Florida Project was filmed on thirty five millimeter film, except
with an iPhone. Success plus in Disney World in Magic
Kingdom without their knowledge. They didn't know that they were
Disney No.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh my good.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So they didn't have permission, they didn't, you know, They
just did it kind of like, oh, we're just here
as guests. The film is awesome, And I interviewed most
of the cast and the writer and everything. In a
previous episode, which I will link in the show notes.
But yes, he is. Sean Baker is incredible. So if
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you like DeNora, you'll like The Florida Project, you'll like Tangerine.
He did Red Rocket last year maybe, which is with
Simon Rex, where Simon is a middle aged, like retired
porn star who leaves La to go back to this
like small town in Texas and tries to get his
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life together or whatever. It's super All of Sean Baker's
films are super interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, Nora was the first one that I saw from him,
and it was definitely it was definitely something.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I mean I didn't really know what I was going
to go watch when I saw Honora. I mean I've
seen the trailer obviously and knew that she was a
stripper and she, you know, she gets with this guy
and there's a whole entire crazy rendezvous that they go through,
but I didn't know the details of it. Yeah, And
I just think that it was so funny. I mean,
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it's really a funny movie, and I think that the
trailer didn't portray that for a reason. Okay, it looked
more like a drama, yeah, like a romance movie, but
it was actually extremely funny.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, another movie that you might like of his Tanzerine
that I talked about, that was the one that was
shot with iPhones totally. That is about a transgender sex
worker who discovers that her boyfriend and pamp has been
cheating on her. That's like a crazy movie. It's good.
You should.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
What is a ba sham Baker in these sex workers?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
He just likes telling stories, I guess from that's.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
A pretty unique niche it is. But he did a
really good job.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
With the Noras, so I mean, yeah, check out Red Rocket,
check out the Florida Project. The Florida Project is crazy.
I highly recommend those. So all right, my next one,
Heart Eyes, which I just saw. I just saw it too,
but it is such a great anti Valentine's Day movie.
(35:53):
It's Oh and by the way, you can see my review,
my one minute movie review of Heart Eyes on TikTok
or YouTube shorts at pop Culture Minute on YouTube or
at pop Culture Weekly or on TikTok at Kyle to
you go to Kyle mcmahonnon it's there, but shout out
to my social media channel and.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Subscribe and subscribe.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But Hard Eyes, I had so much fun watching that movie.
It is for me. It is like the perfect definition
of an anti Valentine's Day movie. These two aren't in love,
you know, they're like co workers that just so happened
to kind of. And I don't want to give it
away any spoilers, but accidentally kiss, incidentally kiss for a reason,
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and the serial killer sees them and puts them on
his hit list for his annual Valentine's Day couple killings
or whatever. And it was so funny, hilarious. Yeah, the
kills were ridiculous in a great way, just the whole thing.
And I love how it never took itself seriously, you know,
because some horror movies especially tend to take themselves seriously
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in instances when they shouldn't. Some horror movies should be
taken seriously, but then there's some that are just like
so ridiculous, like Heart Eyes leans into that like.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Half fun loosen exactly.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
The kills were definitely ridiculous. Yeah, but I just I
love them. I mean they're ridiculously good. Yes, given the
film's theme, Yeah, I think that the kills were really appropriate.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah, me too. It was just so much fun. And
this is one that I would watch every Valentine's Station. Yeah,
just like Thanksgiving has become the Thanksgiving movie has become
one that I watched in that time frame every year,
this will be one that I watch around this time
frame every year.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I do have one thing though, that I wasn't a
fan of. I wish that the mask heard eyes would
glow twenty four to seven. Okay, that's the only thing.
I was very upset when I know, I was very
upset really in the theater when the hard Eyes turned on,
I was like, that's kind of sleigh. Why are you
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not having that on twenty four seven? What like you
need like special batteries for it? What do we what
is like that just set the mask for me? I
don't know. That's a very nitpicky thing for me, but
it really bothered me.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
It was really dope when it happened. I was like, oh,
it should it.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Should be the the thing.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
It was just really upset.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
But if it's night goggles on all the time, then
in the days like blinding himself doesn't matter. I know
they could have found some dumb way around it, but it.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Was just like, you know, it's such a sleigh mask.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It really is. I hope that there's sequels, you know what,
me too.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
When I was watching it, I was I was watching
it in the in the mindset of like, okay, maybe
it's going to take a scream type of route where
we know who the killer is. So I was watching
it and I was like, Okay, let me, let me
just cross off the people that are in this movie,
like what like, you know, let me just see if
and you know, it was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yeah, I loved I loved it. I highly recommend it.
If you haven't seen it, go see it Valentine's Day
or Valentine's Weekend or not. Check it out. All right,
what's your next one?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
My next one is get Out by Jordan Peele.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Jordan Peele is one of my favorite directors.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Oh me too, Me too?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Okay, talk about it.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
So I watched this movie for the first time many
years ago. I rewatched it last night actually for this podcast,
and my mind is still the same about it. I mean,
it's a great film. When I watched it many years
ago for the first time, I'm not gonna lie, I
didn't understand most of it, Like I didn't understand like really,
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what why these things were happening and why they were
choosing you know, black people as their experiments and you know,
all that kind of stuff. And as the have gone by,
and I, you know, me being a Hispanic woman and
I have experienced things myself, I really understood it. It
was one of those movies where it came full circle
(40:09):
for me. I was like, you know what, I was
too young back then, yeah, but now it's like I
get it, yeah, and it is a masterpiece. I really
related to Chris as you know, a Latina. I really
I really related to him, and just he was the
embodiment of I feel as though myself in situations like that,
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because I've been in situations exactly like that, or I've
thought the exact same thing, and it's just really funny
to see it on screen and to know I'm not
the only one that sees this sketchy shit, yeah, you know,
and I'm not the only one who thinks it's freaking weird.
So I don't know. I just that movie mind blew
me so much and I absolutely love it to this day.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah. Jordan Pierle is a genius in my opinion, and
it's so smart how he made a great horror film
on its own, but then underneath of it there's so
much meaning and subtex and like it's a commentary on
you know, race in America. But I feel like, if
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you're dumb, you wouldn't even know that, and you could
still enjoy the movie. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Or if you're oblivious, Yeah, like, if you're just like, oh,
everything's great, blah blah blah, you could still watch it
and be like, this is a great movie. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I think that that was me when I watched it.
I was sixteen, Yeah, and I knew about race, you know,
I knew about the issues with it, but I don't know,
I never really thought much about it because I'm sixteen
years old, right, of course my English essay exact. But
as an adult, yeah, I mean I really did look
at it through a new lens. Yeah, and I mean
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it was just more impactful for me.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Yeah, he's a genius. I freaking love him and everything
he does. I love you, Jordan Peele, come on the show,
all right. Next up for me is Midsummer. Did you
ever see this movie? I'm sorry, no, Okay, I'm shocked, shocked.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
You know what, I don't even know he wouldn't ask
me to come back. This movie you should know.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
You know so Midsummer. I still don't know if it
is horrible or amazing. Oh I hate movies like that,
but it's super interesting. It makes you start thinking yeah, yeah,
And so it is by Ari Astor, who I love.
(42:37):
He's done so many great movies like Hereditary and Belle's Afraid.
So and it's from A twenty four Who I Love
A twenty four their studio. It stars Florence Pugh.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Oh I love her.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, she's amazing, and Will Poulter is also in it.
So basically it is how do I do this without
any spoilers? Okay, Florence kind of invites herself to her
like guys trip, I mean to her boyfriend's like guys trip, uh,
to Sweden to this retreat for guys. No for like anybody.
(43:15):
But it was like a guy's trip. And that's really
all I can say about it without giving it giving
any spoilers. But it is batshit insane.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
What does she like find secrets and stuff so much?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
It's really hard to talk about without spoiling without giving
anything away. I literally had to close my eyes during
the movie numerous times at the movie theater.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
It's scary.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Yeah, it is disturbing. It gave me like a bad
feeling what yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Like physically, like mentally, like.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Like I don't like this. But but then after the movie,
I literally sat there with this girl and the lights
came on and I'm like sitting there and she's like,
what that did we just watch? And I was like
I don't know, And she's like, what did you think?
And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. If
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that was incredible, I don't know, if it was like
a masterpiece, I don't know, if it was trash, I
don't I don't know.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
You see, if I was ever a director, I would
want my movies to impact people in that way.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
I love it when I cannot decide on if I
like a movie hate a movie. I love that.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, yeah, I mean. And that's why I have talked
about it numerous times on the show, this movie, because
I don't want to say it's a bad movie, because
it's not. You know, it's beautifully shot, it's well written,
the acting is great. I just I don't know, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
You know what that was? Honestly, me with the Amelia
Perez movie. I didn't know how to feel about it. Yeah,
I still, honest to god, don't I don't know if
I like it a little bit. I don't know if
I hate it. But I get what you're saying when
it comes to feeling that after a movie. Yeah, and
you just feel so conflicted because it's just so thought provoking.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Exactly, And so that's what this movie is for me.
But by far, it is an amazing anti Valentine's Day movies.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Well that's what matters movie.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Uh, yeah, it's what matters for this episode anyway. But uh,
but yeah, I I highly recommend it. It is so
thought provoking. Yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
Actually, I don't know nothing about this movie, though. Yeah,
tell me something else.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Let me see one thing, let me see what like.
IMDb says a couple travels to northern Europe to visit
a rural hometown's fabled Swedish Midsummer Festival. What begins is
an idyllic retreat quickly to evolve quickly devolves into an
increasingly violent and bizarre competition.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Competition.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
M it is wild. Do yourself a favor and don't
look up anything on it. Okay, if you're gonna watch it,
you know what I'm saying, because you will be you
going in with less knowledge will be it will be
more impactful for you when you watch it. Okay, But
it's one of those movies that I'm just like, I
don't know. I mean, even it's years later and I
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just I don't know. I don't know. That's all I
can say.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
It's gonna be the reviewing your litter box. I don't
even know.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
That's what I was actually just thinking of. I was like,
I should probably go in and review it on letterbox
and just be like, I don't even know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, but it's well worth your watch, A well worth watch,
especially as a film fan, you know what I mean.
I wouldn't recommend it to the average Joe who's just
looking for like a big Hollywood blockbuster. It's not that
you know what I mean, It's not what I would recommend.
But for somebody like you, you know, and you listening
at home or in your car at work or whatever,
you guys get it. So I do recommend it for you.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Okay, So any midsummer, let's get it.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
What's your next one?
Speaker 3 (47:09):
So my number one. This is one of my favorite
movies of all time. And it's more of a dark Valentine,
dark anti Valentine, So it is a Last Night in
Soho Have you seen that movie? I am obsessed with
this movie. This movie is easily in my top three
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favorite movies of all time. It is so good that movie.
It's some of that movie. When I first watched that movie,
I could not even begin to describe the obsession that
I had with all things like nineteen fifties and the
Hollywood scheme back then, like I was obsessed with like
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the soundtrack Bomb, I love. I love everybody on that
freaking cast, the storyline Bomb. That is pure art. Yeah
to me, Yeah, I just I can't. I love that
movie so much. I have posters of that movie like
in my desk area. I am obsessed. I'm just completely
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in love with that movie.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
It is so good. And if you don't know what
we're talking about. Twenty twenty one Psychological Harder Horror from
Edgar Wright, who I love Edgar Wright. He's another amazing
writer and director. He's done things like the World's End
aunt Man Scott Pilgrim versus the World showing to the Dead,
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Hot Fuzz incredible visionary director, writer, and he did this
film with Anna Taylor Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg Thomasin McKenzie.
It's just the whole film. I agree. It's one of
those movies that builds a world. Oh yeah, you know
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what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
Do I know what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
I love that. Yeah, that's that's a really good one.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
You know those movies that you wish you could watch
again for the first time. Yes, that would be my
number one movie that I would want to watch again
for the first time because of how much that movie
messed with me.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
It was just amazing. Very rarely do I ever leave
the theater that impacted from a movie.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
I love that movie. I don't know why I love
the movie so much.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
No, I agree, I love it too. It is such
a good movie. That's like a great choice too.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
That movie's great. I'm just I can't even talk about it.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Well. My last one is The Breakup, which from two
thousand and six. It's build as a romantic comedy slash drama. Okay,
I don't really agree with the building of it being
a rom com because it's not. I mean, it is
funny and there is romance involved, but it's literally about
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their breakup, so it's not really a traditional rom com.
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are starring it, and then
Joey laarn Adams is in it, and Margaret great Cast
justin long and it really just it is about the
breakup of this loving couple, and it's done in a
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funny way. It's sad almost in a way, because you're like, damn,
they loved each other, but now they don't. Yeah, I mean,
so this film is different in the fact that it's
not you know, most movies are the movie ends once
they do fall in love, right, this movie kind of
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begins when they fall in love and ends with the breakup.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
It really is. It is such a great movie that
I was just shocked at I only saw it. I
love Vince Vaughan and Jennifer Anison. I will wear a
diaper and have people throw pudding at me for her
if she wanted me to.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
But I get it. I get it though.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
She's just gorgeous and talented and everything. But so I
was like, all right, you know what, I'll say it whatever,
And I loved it. I was like, wow, this is
a really interesting way to look at a relationship. You
don't see it all the time in movies as the
point of the movie. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
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So it's funny, it's real, it's sad, it's happy, it's depressing,
it's great. It's the Breakup starring Vince Bones and Jennifer Aniston.
I feel like I'm selling it.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Well, you kind of are.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah, true. So anyway, I recommend that if you're in
your fields.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
But I'm never in my field, but.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
You definitely need to watch Midsummer.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Okay, I have that one, and I have the first one.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Yes, and I
want a full report on your letterboxed within the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
All Right. I'm excited for next episode because I'm interviewing
the cast of The Monkey. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
That's gonna be fun. Yes, I love THEO James.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
THEO James is amazing and he's amazing in The Monkey. A. Yeah,
the whole cast is great and oscod Perkins. I love him.
I've talked about that. I just I can't wait for
everybody to see this February twenty first.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
I wish that I would see so that I could
share in the hype. I know, I'm like, just trusting
your word. I'm like, yeah, go ahead, yeah, I will.
Like I want to watch it.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
You should. I want you to use your I mean,
you do whatever you want. You're an independent woman. You
don't need no man. But I would suggest to you
to use your Regal unlimited and go next Thursday for
preview night and see the Monkey and enjoy the hell
out of it because it is so much much fun
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and terrifying and funny.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
I'm intrigued, I really am.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
It's good. So anyway, all right, well, thank you so much, Amanda.
Thank you as always. It's always a pleasure to talk
pop culture with you. And there's your anti Valentine's Day
movie list. Thank you. I don't know what happened there,
I rebooted or something. At any event, I will see
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you next time. I love you.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Netta Net, Hello, and welcome to pop Culture Weekly with
Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon, and I
welcome you. Thank you for joining me on the latest
episode of pop Culture Weekly. I once again have Amanda
Biez joining me for this episode. So today, in celebration
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or anti celebration of Valentine's Day, we're doing anti Valentine's
Day movies, movies that make you wish your single or
make you glad you're single. And I thought this was
fun because I don't know. I think Valentine's Day is
just a ridiculous holiday that was literally created by greeting
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card companies to sell stuff that you should be showing
these sentiments all year.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm not really a big Valentine's Day person, maybe because
I'm single, but I don't hate it. You know, I
actually enjoy watching other people, you know, in love, and
I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, I have no problems with love or whatever, like
that's cool obviously. I just think it's a dumb holiday.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Like why it's just a holiday about showing that you
love your significant others.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, but you should be showing that all year.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, I know what you mean, But I mean you
could say the same thing for you know, for Christmas.
Why do you have to only look at your family
during the holidays. I mean you should be calling them
all the time. I do, I know, but just for
other people.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, But like Christmas is like a religious holiday observed
on December twenty fifth. Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day
or the Feast of Saint Valentine is considered actually a
Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine. But I
feel like it was a holiday created by you know,
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greeting card companies to sell greeting cards and candy and stuff,
you know what I mean. Yeah, And so I don't know,
you should be going on a date with your Valentine,
you know, throughout the year.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, And when people do that it's just that this holiday,
I guess, enforces it more. Yeah, which I don't think
is a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
No, No, I get it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I don't know. I think that I'm thinking more about
healthy relationships, you know, relationships that are those stable relationships,
like stable relationships where you know, Valentine's Day is just
you go a little bit more because of you know,
it being enforced. I don't know. I think that I
like Valentine's Day, you know, even as a single person,
(03:05):
because it's just nice to see, you know, the world
connect with their significant other, even though I don't have one,
which I'm I'm okay with. Yeah, but I just think
it's really nice to see.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I don't know, I don't obviously, I've you know, been
in relationships during Valentine's Day and stuff, and it's you know,
it's nice to like just just kind of arbitrary. I
don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't know. It gives a hater maybe maybe you're
a little bitter.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Not bitter, I just so this Wikipedia says that Valentine's
Day is a major source of economic activity, with total
expenditures topping eighteen point two billion dollars each year, which
is one hundred and thirty six dollars per person wo
which is insane. Now that's including giving cards to your mom,
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your sister, your you know if you're in school, or
your little friends Valentine and like stuff like that. But
I don't know, what do you guys think? Use the
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that comes directly to me. So in celebration of Valentine's Day,
we are doing the top anti Valentine's Day movies that
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make you wish you were single or or make make you,
you know, happy that you're single. So we'll get to that,
but before we do, it's time for what do we
watch this week? So I watched Heart Eyes, which is
(04:59):
so so good and I'm actually going to talk about
that later in the show. But I also saw the Monkey.
I saw a screening of The Monkey because I'm going
to be interviewing the cast. So The Monkey is based
on a nineteen eighty horror short story by Stephen King
that has like this essentially this monkey toy and it's
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cursed and every time the drum hits crazy death happens.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I feel like I've heard this storyline before.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well it's from nineteen eighty. So it's so good. So
it's written and directed by Osgood Perkins, who did I
love him. He's done The Black Coat's Daughter, I Am
the Pretty Things that the pretty thing that lives in
the house Gretel and Hansel, which I loved Long Legs,
which we both have to watch that movie. Yeah. Now
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The Monkey is his new one, and it is so good.
It is outlandish and crazy and darkly funny. Really yeah,
I didn't expect it to be funny, and it's like
darkly funny, yeah, very much. So it is really really great.
I love it, and the cast is great. Theo James
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stars in it and he's incredible. It's it's just so
good and I can't wait. It comes out February twenty
first in theaters, and I can't wait for everybody to
see it next episode, we're going to have the cast on.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, so I'm really excited for that. Neon is releasing
the film Love Neon. They always have great projects. They've
done stuff like Long Legs, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady
on Fire, Palm Springs. You know, they're great, great companies.
So in an event, put that on your list to see.
I just want you to put it on your radar now,
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especially if you're a horror fan. This is the one
to watch and comes out February twenty first, put it
on your calendar now to go see that opening weekend.
You're not gonna want to miss it. So that's what
I saw this week. I also finally twenty minutes left,
but I started smile too, which is amazing and terrifying,
And it was actually so disturbing that I ended up
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turning the lights on as I watched.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Way.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, it was very disturbing.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I can imagine watching it in the movie theater in
the doork. Yeah, it was insane. When I watched it.
I watched it probably only one couple behind us, and
needless to say, when the end credits came on, we
were right behind that couple they were leaving, and I'm like,
you know what, me too, We're we're not staying in
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this theater a second longer. That movie is one of
my favorite movies ever. I don't know why I love
it so much.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's a great movie and I still have twenty minutes
to go to find out how it all right?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
What do you think is going to happen at the end.
I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Okay, that's valid because I didn't know either.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, we'll talk about it more next week. Okay, after
I finish it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But I can't believe you ended it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I think I fell asleep or something, not because because
it was like four am. Oh, and I was like
trying to stay up and I'm like, just twenty more minutes,
you got this, And yeah, it didn't happen. In any event,
What did you watch?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I've watched a couple of movies because I'm trying to
prepare for the Oscars. Yeah, so I watched Amelia Perez.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, how was that?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't complicated.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
It is a complicated movie to describe. I mean, the
storyline was interesting. I will say that it was nothing
that I had ever seen before. I went into the
movie not really knowing what to expect. I didn't know
anything about this movie except that it was about a lawyer.
That's literally all that I knew. And within the first
fifteen minutes I was questioning everything about this movie.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I just in a good way, in.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
A curious way, in a curious way as to how
in the world is this movie going to go? I
just I didn't see where the vision was heading. And
it was a musical. The music was extremely, extremely disappointing,
and the songs I felt lasted for forty seconds, thirty seconds,
like they weren't even minute long songs. Okay, and it
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just wasn't it for me. But towards the you know,
the middle of the movie, I feel like it's sort
of picking up. It's an interesting movie, it really is,
but I don't think that it's something that I would
watch again. Okay, Yeah, I didn't really know how to
feel about the whole entire plot, you know, and premise
(09:36):
of it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And what else did you watch?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I watched Hard Eyes as well, okay, and I watched
Kunk Clive, Kunk.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
C Live, Oh Concave co O n c Ave.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No c and cl Oh wait, yeah, yeah, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I was like, wait, maybe it's just talking about a
different movie.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, I watched that movie.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Okay? That one was really interesting?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay. I almost started watching that and then was like,
I don't know if I'm in the mood for it
right now. So I did it, but it's still on
my list.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean, it's not a movie that I would gravitate towards,
but I do have to say that it was interesting
to look at from a perspective of someone who is
not Catholic. The whole entire process of determining the new Pope.
I don't even know that was a real thing.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh okay, And.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So it was like really eye opening to me. And
it was a little juicy. It had a little drama
to it. It's like old people drama, I think, you know.
I mean, this is a movie for I feel it's
catered more so towards adults. It's just dialogue, you know,
So it's like, you know, it's really just based on that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
There's no murder plot, like an assassin or something.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I really was hoping, I was honestly hoping that there
would be something a little juicy, like the Pope was
like a fraud or something. I don't know, but it was.
It was really interesting. You know. I don't think I
would watch it again, but I could appreciate you know,
the whole entire you know, plot of it, okay, and
the scenes, the shots, These shots were so amazing. Yeah,
I do gotta say, like the cinematography for this movie
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was so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I okay, so I'll definitely watch it. Then I did
grow up Catholic, and it's kind of wild what Catholicism.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
No, like the whole entire process to get to get
a new pope. Oh yeah, yeah, like I didn't even
know that was a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yep, yep. And that's why I think I definitely interested
in it, you know, and it's gotten rave reviews, so like,
you know, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I didn't think it was Yeah, I didn't think it
was like an amazing film, but like I could appreciate
what the director was trying to accomplish. It's just I'm
not Catholic, you know, I'm not really into that kind
of you know, dialogue based movie. So it's like I
don't want to base it off of my opinions.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, no, I totally get it. I'm gonna watch it.
I mean I was going to any way, but yeah,
now I'm like even more.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
A right, next up, what's out this week? All right,
So there's some awesome movies coming out this week. Captain America,
Brave New World. I'm so hyped to see this me too.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I can't help I really love Anthony Mackie as Captain America. Yeah,
I just I mean that amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, I'm also curious. I heard it sets the stage
for the next Avengers movies. I'm just excited. I'm always
excited when I knew MCU movie comes out. So, yeah,
Paddington in Peru. Did you see the other Paddington movies?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I didn't. I really want to watch them, though, I've.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Heard they're like, really really good.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I've heard that too, which I wouldn't really expect. I know,
people are very passionate about them.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
They really are, and I don't know why. But I mean,
I'm not against it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, it's just it's just kind of I didn't I
wouldn't expect it for a movie like that. Yeah, but
people apparently are very excited that it's coming out, and
they're very passionate about this franchise right, and I don't know.
I don't know's it's not really a franchise that I
would think would have such passionate fans. Yeah, you know,
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but I'm not gonna knock it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
In music, Drake is releasing a new album with Party
next Door, and I'm like so anti Drake. Now. I
used to love him, and then I just like feel
like I just saw through the facade. Like, Bro, you're
not hardcore. You grow up rich in Canada. Take a seat, bro. Anyway,
so he releases a new album called Some Sexy Songs
(13:41):
for You. Sabrina Carpenter releases the deluxe edition of Short
and Sweet. I am really falling for a Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I love her.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
She is like so funny she is.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
She's hilarious. Her skits always have me cracking up.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, she's so funny. So I'll definitely check out the
deluxe edition of Short and Sweet. And then in streaming
Waitress the musical, which is do you know who Sarah
burrellis is?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah? I know her.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So she wrote this musical called Waitress, which is I
believe based on a movie, and but now she made
it into a musical and it went on Broadway and
now there's a movie they filmed, like the Broadway show.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Oh, like how Hamilton did it?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yes, okay, So that's out on Max. The Gorge with
Anna Taylor Joy and Miles Teller is out on Apple
TV Plus, and that looks really good. It's kind of
like a mystery scary sort of thing where there are
two trained operatives that are on opposite sides of like
this big gorge in the earth and their mission is
(14:51):
to like keep these creatures from coming out, and so
they kind of have this like long distance relationship through radio,
you know, talking on like walkey to and stuff. So
it looks pretty interesting. I'm excited for that. And then
Cobra Kai Season six, Part three comes out, which if
you're a fan of Cobra Kai, this looks awesome. The
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White Lotus did you watch any of that? No? I didn't, Okay,
So it's like a social satire.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Is it a show?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It is a show. Every season is kind of its
own thing. So season three comes out on Max and
then Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy. It's like the
fourth Bridget Jones movie.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Who was Bridget Jones?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't even know? It was like I never watched
any of them because they just looked they weren't for me. Yeah,
I think they were like romance movies. Yeah. And then
Better Man is out on digital to purchase.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I really wanted to watch that in theaters. I'm actually
really bummed out. I haven't seen it, and let me
tell you why, because our regal took it out like
the second day that it was released. Because I swear
I really was going to watch it after you told
me about how good it was. I went on letter
box and the reviews are really good, and I was like, oh, okay,
like this seems like really good. Actually, yeah, I wanna
(16:08):
go watch it and literally no showing.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, you will love it. So when you can rent
or buy it, it is so amazing. One of my
favorites of the year easily. And then Flow, which is
a two time Oscar nominee. It's dialogue free. There's no
talking throughout the whole movie. It's like animated.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh it's up for Best Animation.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah. So it's like this little black cat is struggling
to survive after the flood and then he gets like
stranded on a sailboat with all these other animals and
so he kind of has to learn to cooperate with
the rest of the animals in order to stay alive. Yeah,
so that is out on Max as well. I haven't
seen that, but I do want to see it. I'll
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probably check it out this weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Watch it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah so flow, So that's what's out this week. All right,
We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,
we are going to get into Anti Valentine's Day movies.
So we'll be back in sixty see you that all right.
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event Anti Valentine's Day Movies. The movies that make you
(17:41):
glad you're single or make you wish you were single.
So I have a list of ten, which you'll find
on my blog popculturewekly dot com. But we're going to
go through five of them today and U F five
two right.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yes, so, And they're in chronological order.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Of when they were released, of how much I like them, Okay, mine,
not in any order, they're just there. But Valentine's Day,
you and I have talked about this before, but and
we talked about it at the top of the show.
This is for people that just ain't feeling it today.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
People that are bitter no, and heartbroken no, and haven't
found their person and are low key very sad about
it but don't want to express it.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I have no problems being like, first of all, I
don't need a relation joke. No, I know it's I know.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I can tell you're very triggered by it, though I'm
not okay, sorry, You're fine.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm not bitter like I I am not the type
of person who needs to be in a relationship to
have validation period. Like I said, even when I was
in relationships, I was just like, eh, it's just another day,
Like so it's just another day Valentine's I mean, oh yeah,
I thought you were waking up thinking that every day.
(19:01):
Oh no. So this main event is for those people
who just start feeling it today. You know, maybe they
they're listening on Valentine's Day to this or before or
after or whatever anytime throughout the year and you're just like,
maybe you did just go through a breakup, or maybe
you're just like screw love, yeah today or maybe you're
just like, oh, I hate romancey cute stuff. It's also
(19:24):
cliche in film. Let me watch things that aren't that.
So that's what today's about. So what is your first one?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
My first one at number five is The Lost City.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The Lost City, Oh and Channing Tatum.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, I love that movie. I thought a movie when
it came out, and it was so funny to me.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I actually did watch this in the theaters. Yeah, and
I did love it because it is very much an
anti Valentine's Day movie.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
It's so funny. I just love her character. I can't
remember her name. I just loved her character, and he
was they were just so opposite. They worked so well. Yeah,
because opposite the track. Yeah, I don't know. It was
just it was just such a joy to watch.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, it was really funny. It was not cliche. I
feel like Loretta. Yes, Loretta Loretta Sage was a former
archaeology researcher who writes romance novels centered on the fictional
fictional doctor Angela Lovemore and her romantic interest Dash McMahon.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, yes, yes, Oh my goodness. And then Brad Pitt's character,
Oh god, yeah, oh my goodness cracked me up. I
really was laughing so much in that theater.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah that is that actually is you know, that's a
great choice. I didn't even think about that one. That
is a really funny movie, very much anti Valentine's Day.
And you know what, even if you are happily in
a relationship, like, it's a great movie. Yeah, you know,
it's funny, there's adventure, the cast is great, like, yeah,
(20:58):
it's just that's a good one, all right. So my
first one is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which
you've never seen.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Right, No, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Shocking, So it is a sci fi romantic drama kind
of its stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunn, s
Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, great cat huh all people that I really like.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, amazing cast. And basically it's these two people who
were in love who undergo a procedure to get their
memory erase so they can forget each other after they
break up. What Yeah, it is, You've got to it
is so good and it is how do you It
(21:54):
is unique. I've never seen a movie like this. It's
it's very much not your typical stays in the lines.
You know what I'm saying. It is very much its
own thing. It is heartbreaking, it is good, it is
thought provoking. It made me think, Shoot, would I get
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a memory procedure to erase somebody?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Would you?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I feel like I haven't met anybody as horrible to
do that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Maybe not even necessarily horrible as it is heartbreaking. Maybe
I loved you so much and it just didn't work
out for whatever reason. You moved away for a job
and I couldn't move, And it's just so painful that
I don't even want to think about it. You know,
it's very thought provoking, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I still don't think I would do it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I don't think I would.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I think that that type of things is what makes
a person that, you know, It's what helps them grow
as a person.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, And you know, I always it's just like death.
You know. I grieve my mom all the time. I
love her so much and I miss her every day.
But you can't have the highs without the lows, right,
you know what I mean. I grieve so hard because
I love her so much, You know what I mean.
One has to come with the other, Yeah, or you
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can't just be happy all the time or that's just normal,
which means you don't have the highs. You just have
this bassline all the time, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
And it's not reality to be happy all the time, right,
you know? And to have good perception to someone all
the time. Yeah, like that's not really reality.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yep. Absolutely, So you've got to check out this movie.
It is really incredible. It's become like this cult classic
and one of the most interesting films I've ever seen
by far.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm gonna check it out.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Really great. Yeah, it won Best Original Screenplay at the
Academy Awards. That won the Oscar for that one Best
Original Screenplay at the British Academy Film Awards. Actually, you
know the Halsey song Ashley.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I love that song.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So the dialogue in Ashley is from the movie Oh.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No Way, Okay. I definitely gotta watch it. Yeah, because
hald is one of my favorite artists of all time.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yep. And the track Clementine that comes right after that, yes, yes,
that is titled after Kate Winslet's character in the film.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I'm putting this on my thing right now. Yeah, because
that just screams a movie that I would love.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, it's incredible. So in any event, Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind is on my list for sure. So
all right, what's your next one?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
So my fourth one is Gone Girl.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yes with Ben Affleck. Yes, I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I love that movie. It is so good. What do
you love about it?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I just think that it's very dramatic. Yeah, and she's
freaking psycho. What's Amy? Amy's freaking psycho. When I first
saw it, I was thinking to myself, what in the world, Well,
let me not say when I first saw it, because
I read the book.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I read the book first because one of my good
friends wanted me to read this book and I had
no idea what it was about. So she told me
a little gist of it, you know, and I was like, Okay,
I like murder Mysteries, and I'm reading this book and
it's very detailed, and I'm like thinking to myself, what
is happening. It's such a psychological thriller that it literally
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takes the book and just embodies it in the movie. Okay,
because you know how sometimes book and movie adaptations are
just complete terrible. No, this one, it's like they speak
lines word for word, not all of them, but it's
like it's very, very close. I don't know, it's just
so insane the lengths that this woman was willing to
take me. I would have just left. And that's it.
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I don't know. I was just watching this movie and
it for the first time, and it was like, yeah,
this is psychotic.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah. I had never read the book, but I did
see the movie, and I you know, I really like
Ben Affleck. Obviously do like as an actor.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
No, I like him as an actor.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know that's what I mean. Oh okay, yeah, no,
I love love him as an actor. I love the
director David Fincher and Rosamund Pike, who's been on the show.
Shout out to her. She plays Amy. So I was like, okay,
I'm in. It looks like a cool psychological thriller like
mystery blah blah blah, and I was hooked on it.
It is really, really a great movie. I actually I
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haven't watched it in a while, so I wanna you know,
you've made me want to pull it back out. That
is a good one.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah. We watched it, I think on Tuesday. Oh, okay,
for the for the podcast, ye. I was like, I
want to watch it again. I haven't seen it in
a while, and I don't know watching it from my
perspective now that I'm a little older versus the time
that I did watch it when I was a little younger,
I just really see how unhinged this movie is. And
I don't know. She's just very she was very determined.
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You know, I can I can. I can respect that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh I thought you're gonna say I can relate.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I was like, no way.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
I mean, and the fact that what was his name, Nick,
The fact that all Nick did was just honestly fall
out of love, Like he didn't I mean he did cheat.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, he did cheat, but he wasn't like like violent
violent towards her. I mean, yeah, he pushed her a
couple of times, but it's like you got people that
are beating their wives for you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Went from he didn't really do anything wrong to well,
he cheated and he kind of physically assaulted her besides that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Okay, but like honestly, yeah, but no, you know what yet,
I don't know. I just think that just leave. Yeah,
you know, he fell out of love with you, he cheated, Okay,
he pushed you I mean just you know, maybe do
something a little less mundane. But like, I don't know,
it was just I would have liked that if Nick
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was like this raging alcoholic, you know what I mean,
like like this is such a terrible, terrible person. I mean,
he was a bad person, but I don't think that
he was like the fact that he was just like
regular guy.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I mean, minus the cheating and the physical abuse.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
But oh that's regular guys. I oh my god, am
I But but you know, I just think that she
was just doing a little too much.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, she was doing a lot too much. But it
is a really great I do really love that movie. Yeah,
I'm glad you said that because I want to pull
that back out. All right. Well, my next one is
Blue Valentine. I know that you haven't seen this one.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Have you seen this one?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But how would you know if I haven't?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I just know. So. Blue Valentine is a movie with
Ryan Gosling Michelle Williams. Have you seen it?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I haven't exactly, but it's basically a you okay there. Yeah,
I was just trying to think of how to say
it without spoilers. It's about a married couple Michelle Williams
and Ryan Gosling, and like the film shifts back and
forth through their time from when they first met to
essentially their divorce years later. So it kind of goes
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back and forth throughout it, and it's done really, really well,
and it's I think what it is is such a
different take on like, oh, a drama where people fall
out of love and divorce. That that's what makes it
super interesting. And then the actors, I mean Ryan Gosling
and Michelle Williams, like they're awesome, incredible actors. So and
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then you know, combine that with the story how the
storytelling is done of like going back and forth through time.
It's just super creative and really good, I think.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
So it's just a movie about marriage and divorce.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes, but it's like how it's done.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But it's more complex than that, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
So it's it's just super it's told we're going back
and forth in time basically, so is it.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Like past and presence exactly present kind of like gone girl,
how they were.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Going back in yep. So it it's just unique and
how they're telling the story of this romantic partnership that
turns into a marriage that turns into divorce, you know
what I mean. So I love it for that reason.
It's just not your run of the mill drama about divorce.
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It's a great movie. It made a ton of top
ten lists that year twenty ten as movie of the year,
like The AP Club San Francisco Chronicle USA Today put
it at third their third best film of the year.
I mean, it's a really yeah, it's a really really
great movie that I think it very much encapsulates anti Valentine's.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Day and it's a drama.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yes, yep. And Ryan Glossling Michelle Williams like, yeah, totally
and yeah yep. So add that to your list.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I gotta check that out.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
What's your next one?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So my next one, my number three is Anura.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Is this the recent one?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yes, Mikey Madison. It's dominated for like.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
A million Yeah, keep going.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I saw that movie last year. So basically it's about
a stripper sex worker.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh yes, okay, keep going.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Okay, it's about it. Basically, it's about a stripper sex
worker and she gets into this whole entire situationship with
this rich guy from Russia. They basically get married. I mean,
you could see in the trailer. They get married and
and then there's a whole entire situation of trying to
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basically fight the marriage the parents, Oh okay, got you,
and they've just roamed through through New York and it's
just so Cinderella gone wrong type of movie. I don't know,
I loved it. I mean, I love Mikey Madison, yeah
so much. Like her acting was so amazing in this movie.
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It was just such a rollercoaster to see it on
the big because I watched it in theaters. I don't know,
it was so extremely funny and I just felt like
I felt like her, not with the whole like sex workers,
but her attitude towards.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Life maybe what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Pause? But her attitude towards like life, and her attitude
of how people treat her and how she basically defends
herself and she is not afraid to like speak her mind.
Like I saw myself in her in that point of view,
and it was just so funny because she's a fighter.
I don't know, Like, her character was just so complex
and it's really sad beside, like when you look underneath
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all of the comedy and all of the you know,
like drama, Itah, it's a really sad message that this
movie is sending out. Okay, I hope it wins something
from the Oscars because it honestly deserves it.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So Sean Baker is the writer and director of this film,
and I love Sean. Sean is he did the Florida Project.
Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Okay, Florida Project is so good. He has a very
different way of how he makes films, like the Florida Project.
I think that was the one he used all iPhones
to make a film. Or No, that was Tangerine. I
think he used all iPhones the Florida.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Project, like to film the movie. Yeah, yeah, what, Yeah,
that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It was Tangerine that was filmed with an iPhone. The
Florida Project was filmed on thirty five millimeter film, except
with an iPhone. Success plus in Disney World in Magic
Kingdom without their knowledge. They didn't know that they were
Disney No.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh my good.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So they didn't have permission, they didn't, you know, They
just did it kind of like, oh, we're just here
as guests. The film is awesome, And I interviewed most
of the cast and the writer and everything. In a
previous episode, which I will link in the show notes.
But yes, he is. Sean Baker is incredible. So if
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you like DeNora, you'll like The Florida Project, you'll like Tangerine.
He did Red Rocket last year maybe, which is with
Simon Rex, where Simon is a middle aged, like retired
porn star who leaves La to go back to this
like small town in Texas and tries to get his
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life together or whatever. It's super All of Sean Baker's
films are super interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, Nora was the first one that I saw from him,
and it was definitely it was definitely something.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I mean I didn't really know what I was going
to go watch when I saw Honora. I mean I've
seen the trailer obviously and knew that she was a
stripper and she, you know, she gets with this guy
and there's a whole entire crazy rendezvous that they go through,
but I didn't know the details of it. Yeah, And
I just think that it was so funny. I mean,
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it's really a funny movie, and I think that the
trailer didn't portray that for a reason. Okay, it looked
more like a drama, yeah, like a romance movie, but
it was actually extremely funny.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, another movie that you might like of his Tanzerine
that I talked about, that was the one that was
shot with iPhones totally. That is about a transgender sex
worker who discovers that her boyfriend and pamp has been
cheating on her. That's like a crazy movie. It's good.
You should.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
What is a ba sham Baker in these sex workers?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
He just likes telling stories, I guess from that's.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
A pretty unique niche it is. But he did a
really good job.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
With the Noras, so I mean, yeah, check out Red Rocket,
check out the Florida Project. The Florida Project is crazy.
I highly recommend those. So all right, my next one,
Heart Eyes, which I just saw. I just saw it too,
but it is such a great anti Valentine's Day movie.
(35:53):
It's Oh and by the way, you can see my review,
my one minute movie review of Heart Eyes on TikTok
or YouTube shorts at pop Culture Minute on YouTube or
at pop Culture Weekly or on TikTok at Kyle to
you go to Kyle mcmahonnon it's there, but shout out
to my social media channel and.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Subscribe and subscribe.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But Hard Eyes, I had so much fun watching that movie.
It is for me. It is like the perfect definition
of an anti Valentine's Day movie. These two aren't in love,
you know, they're like co workers that just so happened
to kind of. And I don't want to give it
away any spoilers, but accidentally kiss, incidentally kiss for a reason,
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and the serial killer sees them and puts them on
his hit list for his annual Valentine's Day couple killings
or whatever. And it was so funny, hilarious. Yeah, the
kills were ridiculous in a great way, just the whole thing.
And I love how it never took itself seriously, you know,
because some horror movies especially tend to take themselves seriously
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in instances when they shouldn't. Some horror movies should be
taken seriously, but then there's some that are just like
so ridiculous, like Heart Eyes leans into that like.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Half fun loosen exactly.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
The kills were definitely ridiculous. Yeah, but I just I
love them. I mean they're ridiculously good. Yes, given the
film's theme, Yeah, I think that the kills were really appropriate.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah, me too. It was just so much fun. And
this is one that I would watch every Valentine's Station. Yeah,
just like Thanksgiving has become the Thanksgiving movie has become
one that I watched in that time frame every year,
this will be one that I watch around this time
frame every year.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I do have one thing though, that I wasn't a
fan of. I wish that the mask heard eyes would
glow twenty four to seven. Okay, that's the only thing.
I was very upset when I know, I was very
upset really in the theater when the hard Eyes turned on,
I was like, that's kind of sleigh. Why are you
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not having that on twenty four seven? What like you
need like special batteries for it? What do we what
is like that just set the mask for me? I
don't know. That's a very nitpicky thing for me, but
it really bothered me.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
It was really dope when it happened. I was like, oh,
it should it.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Should be the the thing.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
It was just really upset.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
But if it's night goggles on all the time, then
in the days like blinding himself doesn't matter. I know
they could have found some dumb way around it, but it.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Was just like, you know, it's such a sleigh mask.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It really is. I hope that there's sequels, you know what,
me too.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
When I was watching it, I was I was watching
it in the in the mindset of like, okay, maybe
it's going to take a scream type of route where
we know who the killer is. So I was watching
it and I was like, Okay, let me, let me
just cross off the people that are in this movie,
like what like, you know, let me just see if
and you know, it was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yeah, I loved I loved it. I highly recommend it.
If you haven't seen it, go see it Valentine's Day
or Valentine's Weekend or not. Check it out. All right,
what's your next one?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
My next one is get Out by Jordan Peele.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Jordan Peele is one of my favorite directors.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Oh me too, Me too?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Okay, talk about it.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
So I watched this movie for the first time many
years ago. I rewatched it last night actually for this podcast,
and my mind is still the same about it. I mean,
it's a great film. When I watched it many years
ago for the first time, I'm not gonna lie, I
didn't understand most of it, Like I didn't understand like really,
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what why these things were happening and why they were
choosing you know, black people as their experiments and you know,
all that kind of stuff. And as the have gone by,
and I, you know, me being a Hispanic woman and
I have experienced things myself, I really understood it. It
was one of those movies where it came full circle
(40:09):
for me. I was like, you know what, I was
too young back then, yeah, but now it's like I
get it, yeah, and it is a masterpiece. I really
related to Chris as you know, a Latina. I really
I really related to him, and just he was the
embodiment of I feel as though myself in situations like that,
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because I've been in situations exactly like that, or I've
thought the exact same thing, and it's just really funny
to see it on screen and to know I'm not
the only one that sees this sketchy shit, yeah, you know,
and I'm not the only one who thinks it's freaking weird.
So I don't know. I just that movie mind blew
me so much and I absolutely love it to this day.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah. Jordan Pierle is a genius in my opinion, and
it's so smart how he made a great horror film
on its own, but then underneath of it there's so
much meaning and subtex and like it's a commentary on
you know, race in America. But I feel like, if
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you're dumb, you wouldn't even know that, and you could
still enjoy the movie. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Or if you're oblivious, Yeah, like, if you're just like, oh,
everything's great, blah blah blah, you could still watch it
and be like, this is a great movie. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I think that that was me when I watched it.
I was sixteen, Yeah, and I knew about race, you know,
I knew about the issues with it, but I don't know,
I never really thought much about it because I'm sixteen
years old, right, of course my English essay exact. But
as an adult, yeah, I mean I really did look
at it through a new lens. Yeah, and I mean
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it was just more impactful for me.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Yeah, he's a genius. I freaking love him and everything
he does. I love you, Jordan Peele, come on the show,
all right. Next up for me is Midsummer. Did you
ever see this movie? I'm sorry, no, Okay, I'm shocked, shocked.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
You know what, I don't even know he wouldn't ask
me to come back. This movie you should know.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
You know so Midsummer. I still don't know if it
is horrible or amazing. Oh I hate movies like that,
but it's super interesting. It makes you start thinking yeah, yeah,
And so it is by Ari Astor, who I love.
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He's done so many great movies like Hereditary and Belle's Afraid.
So and it's from A twenty four Who I Love
A twenty four their studio. It stars Florence Pugh.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Oh I love her.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, she's amazing, and Will Poulter is also in it.
So basically it is how do I do this without
any spoilers? Okay, Florence kind of invites herself to her
like guys trip, I mean to her boyfriend's like guys trip, uh,
to Sweden to this retreat for guys. No for like anybody.
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But it was like a guy's trip. And that's really
all I can say about it without giving it giving
any spoilers. But it is batshit insane.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
What does she like find secrets and stuff so much?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
It's really hard to talk about without spoiling without giving
anything away. I literally had to close my eyes during
the movie numerous times at the movie theater.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
It's scary.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Yeah, it is disturbing. It gave me like a bad
feeling what yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Like physically, like mentally, like.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Like I don't like this. But but then after the movie,
I literally sat there with this girl and the lights
came on and I'm like sitting there and she's like,
what that did we just watch? And I was like
I don't know, And she's like, what did you think?
And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. If
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that was incredible, I don't know, if it was like
a masterpiece, I don't know, if it was trash, I
don't I don't know.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
You see, if I was ever a director, I would
want my movies to impact people in that way.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
I love it when I cannot decide on if I
like a movie hate a movie. I love that.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, yeah, I mean. And that's why I have talked
about it numerous times on the show, this movie, because
I don't want to say it's a bad movie, because
it's not. You know, it's beautifully shot, it's well written,
the acting is great. I just I don't know, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
You know what that was? Honestly, me with the Amelia
Perez movie. I didn't know how to feel about it. Yeah,
I still, honest to god, don't I don't know if
I like it a little bit. I don't know if
I hate it. But I get what you're saying when
it comes to feeling that after a movie. Yeah, and
you just feel so conflicted because it's just so thought provoking.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Exactly, And so that's what this movie is for me.
But by far, it is an amazing anti Valentine's Day movies.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Well that's what matters movie.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Uh, yeah, it's what matters for this episode anyway. But uh,
but yeah, I I highly recommend it. It is so
thought provoking. Yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
Actually, I don't know nothing about this movie, though. Yeah,
tell me something else.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Let me see one thing, let me see what like.
IMDb says a couple travels to northern Europe to visit
a rural hometown's fabled Swedish Midsummer Festival. What begins is
an idyllic retreat quickly to evolve quickly devolves into an
increasingly violent and bizarre competition.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Competition.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
M it is wild. Do yourself a favor and don't
look up anything on it. Okay, if you're gonna watch it,
you know what I'm saying, because you will be you
going in with less knowledge will be it will be
more impactful for you when you watch it. Okay, But
it's one of those movies that I'm just like, I
don't know. I mean, even it's years later and I
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just I don't know. I don't know. That's all I
can say.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
It's gonna be the reviewing your litter box. I don't
even know.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
That's what I was actually just thinking of. I was like,
I should probably go in and review it on letterbox
and just be like, I don't even know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, but it's well worth your watch, A well worth watch,
especially as a film fan, you know what I mean.
I wouldn't recommend it to the average Joe who's just
looking for like a big Hollywood blockbuster. It's not that
you know what I mean, It's not what I would recommend.
But for somebody like you, you know, and you listening
at home or in your car at work or whatever,
you guys get it. So I do recommend it for you.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Okay, So any midsummer, let's get it.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
What's your next one?
Speaker 3 (47:09):
So my number one. This is one of my favorite
movies of all time. And it's more of a dark Valentine,
dark anti Valentine, So it is a Last Night in
Soho Have you seen that movie? I am obsessed with
this movie. This movie is easily in my top three
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favorite movies of all time. It is so good that movie.
It's some of that movie. When I first watched that movie,
I could not even begin to describe the obsession that
I had with all things like nineteen fifties and the
Hollywood scheme back then, like I was obsessed with like
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the soundtrack Bomb, I love. I love everybody on that
freaking cast, the storyline Bomb. That is pure art. Yeah
to me, Yeah, I just I can't. I love that
movie so much. I have posters of that movie like
in my desk area. I am obsessed. I'm just completely
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in love with that movie.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
It is so good. And if you don't know what
we're talking about. Twenty twenty one Psychological Harder Horror from
Edgar Wright, who I love Edgar Wright. He's another amazing
writer and director. He's done things like the World's End
aunt Man Scott Pilgrim versus the World showing to the Dead,
(48:35):
Hot Fuzz incredible visionary director, writer, and he did this
film with Anna Taylor Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg Thomasin McKenzie.
It's just the whole film. I agree. It's one of
those movies that builds a world. Oh yeah, you know
(48:56):
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
Do I know what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
I love that. Yeah, that's that's a really good one.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
You know those movies that you wish you could watch
again for the first time. Yes, that would be my
number one movie that I would want to watch again
for the first time because of how much that movie
messed with me.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
It was just amazing. Very rarely do I ever leave
the theater that impacted from a movie.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
I love that movie. I don't know why I love
the movie so much.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
No, I agree, I love it too. It is such
a good movie. That's like a great choice too.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
That movie's great. I'm just I can't even talk about it.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Well. My last one is The Breakup, which from two
thousand and six. It's build as a romantic comedy slash drama. Okay,
I don't really agree with the building of it being
a rom com because it's not. I mean, it is
funny and there is romance involved, but it's literally about
(49:54):
their breakup, so it's not really a traditional rom com.
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are starring it, and then
Joey laarn Adams is in it, and Margaret great Cast
justin long and it really just it is about the
breakup of this loving couple, and it's done in a
(50:18):
funny way. It's sad almost in a way, because you're like, damn,
they loved each other, but now they don't. Yeah, I mean,
so this film is different in the fact that it's
not you know, most movies are the movie ends once
they do fall in love, right, this movie kind of
(50:39):
begins when they fall in love and ends with the breakup.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
It really is. It is such a great movie that
I was just shocked at I only saw it. I
love Vince Vaughan and Jennifer Anison. I will wear a
diaper and have people throw pudding at me for her
if she wanted me to.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
But I get it. I get it though.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
She's just gorgeous and talented and everything. But so I
was like, all right, you know what, I'll say it whatever,
And I loved it. I was like, wow, this is
a really interesting way to look at a relationship. You
don't see it all the time in movies as the
point of the movie. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
(51:27):
So it's funny, it's real, it's sad, it's happy, it's depressing,
it's great. It's the Breakup starring Vince Bones and Jennifer Aniston.
I feel like I'm selling it.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Well, you kind of are.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah, true. So anyway, I recommend that if you're in
your fields.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
But I'm never in my field, but.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
You definitely need to watch Midsummer.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Okay, I have that one, and I have the first one.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Yes, and I
want a full report on your letterboxed within the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
All Right. I'm excited for next episode because I'm interviewing
the cast of The Monkey. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
That's gonna be fun. Yes, I love THEO James.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
THEO James is amazing and he's amazing in The Monkey. A. Yeah,
the whole cast is great and oscod Perkins. I love him.
I've talked about that. I just I can't wait for
everybody to see this February twenty first.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
I wish that I would see so that I could
share in the hype. I know, I'm like, just trusting
your word. I'm like, yeah, go ahead, yeah, I will.
Like I want to watch it.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
You should. I want you to use your I mean,
you do whatever you want. You're an independent woman. You
don't need no man. But I would suggest to you
to use your Regal unlimited and go next Thursday for
preview night and see the Monkey and enjoy the hell
out of it because it is so much much fun
(53:01):
and terrifying and funny.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
I'm intrigued, I really am.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
It's good. So anyway, all right, well, thank you so much, Amanda.
Thank you as always. It's always a pleasure to talk
pop culture with you. And there's your anti Valentine's Day
movie list. Thank you. I don't know what happened there,
I rebooted or something. At any event, I will see
(53:30):
you next time. I love you.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
We thank you for listening to pop Culture Weekly.
Speaker 4 (53:35):
You're all the latest at Popcultureweekly dot com. Love it's
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