Beantown Podcast - 01202019_Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast

Episode Date: January 20, 2019

Quinn comes to you LIVE to introduce donor tiers for the 2019 Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser, read a response from Mr. Rock Chris (maybe Chris Rock??), and discuss my favorite movies from 2018 #Frie...ndsofthePodcast beantownpodcast@yahoo.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, what's happening? It's Quinn David furnace. Welcome to Quinn David furnace presents the bean town podcast Where the people's podcasts as it is generously known around here one of Baltimore City's top 500 podcasts. How is everyone doing? What's going on? What's happening? January 20th 2019 already two-thirds of the way through January. And I tell you what, that's totally fine with me. I don't know about other people.
Starting point is 00:00:34 January and February to me are two months that are just like, no one's happy about this. And it's not necessarily like the seasonal, effective disorder or sad, as I like to call it, say I like to shorten things more efficient, coefficients, big math fan. But it's not even like,
Starting point is 00:00:57 oh, the days are short, it's dark, I'm feeling depressed, there's nothing going on, it's just, there's nothing going on, you know, what it January, what do we got? Start off with a big party and then you got nothing for like four and a half weeks, 31 days, they really stretch it out. It's just cold temperatures, no one's really doing anything. When people are doing things, I'm not invited.
Starting point is 00:01:30 I'm not drinking in January, been doing that a couple of years now. In fact, the first 19 years of my life, I didn't drink in January, and then the next couple of years I partook in the last couple of years I've been off. So most January's in my lifetime, I haven't had alcohol.
Starting point is 00:01:47 So that's a pretty positive thing, but I don't know about you. It's just, I feel like I don't really have anything to look forward to in January and in February. It's just kind of bland. It's not a lot of color outside. There's just, I don't't know all I do is read applications and occasionally you get a funny
Starting point is 00:02:13 note or something interesting that happens for instance. I was reading an application the other day and I was reading this teacher recommendation and Is this female applicant and the teacher is female and I looked up the teacher and she's married and she has kids so I don't think there's anything going on here but in the letter it says X student is very attractive and she doesn't even know it dot dot dot that's three dots and I don't, that just seems like a really weird thing to write in a student's letter of recommendation. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to report that or call someone or FBI watchlist, I'm not sure. But for those teachers out there listening to
Starting point is 00:03:01 the bean town podcast, you don't need to hit on the students' attractiveness or hit on the students. It's just not necessarily best practice. So a little advice for your life. I may be on the next John Tush. We'll see. This is the bean-town podcast. Listener discretion is advised when you are imbibing in this delicacy of a show. Number one, we will occasionally drop some language here and there on the podcast. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Consider yourself forewarned. What's happened in January 20th. Yeah, pretty quiet over here. I think you do friend of the podcast Edward Kai for coming on last week to share his thoughts on the best
Starting point is 00:03:55 tacos and two son. He helped us solve a math problem. So for any of you studying for the Jerry out there, I know when my friend Haley, who is also a friend of the podcast, she came on back during the fall tour, you can check that out. But back in the spring, she was studying for the GRE, she had some math questions and we came on the podcast live and we attempted them. We never really got to a final answer, but we did our best. But we, you know, we, Edward came on, we did math problems. Tucson, love, life, clubbing.
Starting point is 00:04:34 Edward told his worst night in college story, so you can go check out all of that stuff on our episode from last week, but this week we are going to the movies and we are still planning on having a Oscar prediction, predictacular. Last year we did that with dear friend of the podcast Ryan Austin Ligan, I think it would be nice to get him back on the podcast to do some Oscar predictions I think it would be nice to get him back on the podcast to do some Oscar predictions. We got to talk to him. Haven't talked to our friend Ryan Austin Ligan or Kristen English in a while. So we will be reaching out to
Starting point is 00:05:16 them soon. Just been busy. Every literally I sit down at work probably like twice a week and I think you know what I haven't talked to Ryan Liggan the YouTube channel Reconert team and go check it out. I was been fairly quietly, not dormant but fairly quiet. I'm not sure what's going on with those guys. So we should check back in with them. We'll try and get them on. But Oscars nominations are coming out on Tuesday morning. So I'm very excited to see that this year is much less clear cut in a lot of big categories, especially in years past there. Even before the nominations come out, clear front runners, the pool of five nominees for the major awards have been, you know, there's not always solidified,
Starting point is 00:06:01 but pretty, you know, everyone kind of knows what it's going to be this year. It's a little all over the place, particularly best picture. They do nine films now, which is a ton, but there are a couple that are kind of go-to's and otherwise, you know, it's going to be interesting. So we're going gonna get to that my favorite movies of the year not certainly an idea best of List because I'm not qualified to make that but my favorite movies from 2018 Before we do that we have two different things to hit on this podcast could get long so I apologize, but number one
Starting point is 00:06:44 We are going to talk donor tears. And the number two, we have a response from Mr. Rock, Chris maybe Chris rock, maybe. I reached out to Mr. Chris Rock's agent, haven't got confirmation that I'm dealing with Chris Rock and these emails from Mr. Rock Chris, but I don't know, maybe in his community, they flip the names. We'll see. But first, let's talk about something very near and dear to my heart. The Pledge Drive fundraiser is going to be coming up next month in February. Last week, we just kind
Starting point is 00:07:21 of did a one, like half hour period live streaming on YouTube where we were hosting phone calls all that stuff, plug drive, PBS style. It was a lot of fun. We raised the money that we needed to hit our goals for 2018. So we're back. We're making it bigger, better than ever. We're gonna have live performances. We're gonna be doing stand-up and it's all for a good cause Bean Tom podcast. There's gonna be special events periods where I'm matching donations all that stuff periods where for every listen We get on an episode. We're gonna be donating money triple time one two
Starting point is 00:08:04 Charity and one to the bean town podcast and then one your donations. That's three different donations all being matched. That's really exciting. So let's talk about donor tiers here first. And as just a reminder, 2019 Pledge Drive, our goal is to raise $235, and I'll tell you exactly where we need that money. We need 120 to run our hosting platform. Soundcloud is where we are hosted. Thank you to our friends there.
Starting point is 00:08:34 Soundcloud for hosting us in order to have unlimited content, infinite content as our friends Arcade Fire would say. We need to be able to raise $120. That's for the whole year. It's a one time hit and then we're good to go. 125 and then we're looking for 115 to start and build a website, beantompodcast.com. User name is still free at this point and we're looking to get that solidified. So that's $235 that we're looking to raise. Again, that'll be starting in February. Thank you to those of you and we already have multiple donations that have come through really
Starting point is 00:09:14 exciting. But this year something special something new that we are introducing as incentives to get the word out share it with your friends because we got some special things going on here So introducing for the first time ever the bean-tomp podcast donor tears And I want to put this out there right now This applies during the pledge drive fundraiser in February But this is also anytime if you stumble across the bean-tomp podcast and you think wow I really like this I need more content like this in my life
Starting point is 00:09:41 and you think, wow, I really like this. I need more content like this in my life. Quinn, you are the internet's leading source and misinformation, gotta have me into your life as the Beatles saying, here are a different tier. So for $5, and this isn't monthly, this is a one time hit. Your paycheck, maybe it's $300,000, you can afford $5 out of it to support community
Starting point is 00:10:08 Small business the arts and innovation so for $5 you can become a friend of the podcast and what you get with that Donation is a personalized email. Thank you from bean town podcast at Yahoo dot com again That's bean town B a N T. You know podcast at Yahoo dot com maybe even www.beantompodcast.com Maybe even sharing your email with Mr. Rockcris. That's for $5. Friend of the podcast, personalized email. Thank you from www.beantompodcast.com For $10, up in the anion a little bit.
Starting point is 00:10:44 Speaking of Annie, when we were young, my siblings and I, we would wake up, I don't know, this was like a once a week spiel, and we would all huddle in my oldest brother's bedroom, which was like the cool place to be because it was in the bedroom, or in the basement, excuse me, and the basement of our house completely finished, basement, excuse me. And the basement of our house completely finished, but there were two bedrooms down there. And one of them we converted into our like school room because we were homeschooled. So the other bedroom was the only bedroom in the basement. And that's where the computer was. And there was no bathroom down there and just like the actual larger room called the family room with a TV and games and such. And so that was just like the place to be was the basement. So once a week or
Starting point is 00:11:33 around there we would wake up my two other siblings and I would go down to my fourth sibling a friend of the podcast Walter, go down to his bedroom and we would play poker with pennies. And I don't maybe, brothers, sister can chime in on the comment section, but maybe you can refresh my memory where we got all those pennies from. I don't remember, but we would bet with pennies and we would also bet with these little chips, they were called like Pogs or something. I don't really know what that means.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Not Pogs from Star Wars The Last Jedi Pogs, P-O-G-S, I believe, is what they were called. And they had like different images on them. And I think we had like Buffalo Nichols. I don't remember, but we would, long story short, play poker, Texas hold in my believe. Or no, we didn't play Texas, so we played like five card draw, mostly.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Really thrilling stuff, right guys? And we didn't really know the word, any up or any very well. And so we thought it was French and pronounced it on tape. All right, who still has to on tape and pot? All right, who still asked the auntie and the pot? You kind of get the picture. A bunch of eight through like 12-year-olds playing poker in the basement, like 6am on school days, but we were homeschooled, so it was awesome.
Starting point is 00:12:58 And the cold basement. Imagine if that song by MOP was, instead of Annie up, it was on Taeyop. Taeyop, down to the turn. Kidnap that fool, hit him, hit him, hit him, get him, get him, smash him all. So, so, so, I'm a true player, Hader, street regulator. Make goals in the Hader, take control of the streets. Think blows in the streets. Things that we need, money smokes,
Starting point is 00:13:28 weeds, essentials, credentials, dehydentials, credentials. Ah, tell them. Damn, damn, damn. So long story short for $10. You can become a podcaster's best friend. And with that, you get a shout out on the podcast. That's right I personalize thank you from the host the voice of Quinn David furnace saying thank you six pack Joe
Starting point is 00:13:56 Thank you school teacher Sally. Thank you to our local congresswoman For supporting the podcast and supporting the arts really appreciate that. So $10 podcasters best friend a shout out on the podcast live for $20. We're gonna anion up the anion again and we're getting into some serious donor tier ranges here. So for $20, you can become a gold level member. 10 out of 10, Caitlin Ohashi, a quick word on that.
Starting point is 00:14:35 She's kind of hot. Improvized song, live on the podcast about you. If you really want to support music, the art, small business, and your local community, and it would be a community garden, except my ex killed my plant while I was on a work trip, shout out. But for $20, a gold level member personalized improvised
Starting point is 00:15:07 Synergistic song live on the podcast about you. We got a guitar. I can do a lot of different styles I can do some Michael McDonald stuff and listen to a lot of arcade fire so we can go dance pop I can go old school country Hank Williams Five minutes ago we just learned that I can do old school country, Hank Williams. Five minutes ago, we just learned that I can do some freestyle rapping. So you name the style and we'll make it happen for you. $20 gold level member, gold level member, and provides song live on podcast about you.
Starting point is 00:15:43 $30. Got two tears left. $30. I'm good. So we named this one because I was at Starbucks. Last night reading my book, Pornow by Irvine Welch, drinking my Grande Latte, my Ariana Grande, Frappuccino, 360, etc. I've got a bit about Starbucks. And it's kind of all inclusive from the time you walk into the time you walk out. It's like five or six minutes long. I haven't debuted it on the podcast yet, but it's, I think I've done some of it. Like I've done the ordering. I was like the snap count and football, but there are a lot of other pieces there. For instance, just the sheer type of, or different types of drinks that you can get there. And you go to Starbucks, I guess I'm getting in my bit a little bit here, but you go to
Starting point is 00:16:32 Starbucks and the menu has like five things on it. But I'm sitting there reading my book and I'm listening as people are ordering. And this lady orders, I swear to God, it was like a pray-line mocha-chino or something like that. It's a pray-line. I think people know what pray-line is, but how often does that even come up in your daily life? When's the last time you heard somebody even say the word
Starting point is 00:17:04 pray-line? are you kidding me? And we're ordering this at Starbucks, and they even have that, that's crazy. But for $30, you can become a prelene Sunday, remember, because who wouldn't want a prelene Sunday? Honestly, that sounds pretty damn tasty. Here's what you get for $30. An autographed picture of Quinn David Furnace.
Starting point is 00:17:29 How about that? I'll take the picture, I'll sign it, I'll get it developed that the photo place. Although I don't even know if I have one near me, that could be a problem. I'll do the stamps, I'll do the envelopes, I'll mail it off to you. And that'll be that. But that's $30, pre-lean Sunday member.
Starting point is 00:17:56 $50. Oh boy, here we go. The highest level we have for $50, you can become a Topaz Elite member. And frankly, I just like saying Topaz, Topaz, Topaz, Topaz. Live interview on the podcast to discuss a topic of your choosing. And it's no hold bar. It could be raunchy.
Starting point is 00:18:24 It could be controversial. It could be a little sexy. Whatever you want. $50 Topaz Elite Member, a live interview on the podcast to discuss the topic of your choosing. And one other thing I want to say about these donor levels is if you, when you donate, you get And one other thing I want to say about these donor levels is, if you, when you donate, you get the incentive attached to your specific donor tier that you hit with your donation, but you also get to pick one other thing
Starting point is 00:18:59 from any donor tier below that you could have as well. So for instance, if you're a $50 topaz elite member, you have four other donor tier below that you could have as well. So for instance, if you're a $50 topaz elite member, you have four other donor tier incentives that you get to choose from. If you are a $10 podcasters best friend donor, you could also have the $5 donor incentive gift as well. If you so choose, let's run through those again, real quick, and then I'm gonna move on to movies here here. Actually I got a letter from Mr. Rock Chris.
Starting point is 00:19:28 Number so first tiered five dollars friend of the podcast that's a personalized email thank you from Beentown podcast Yahoo.com 10 dollars podcasters best friend that's a shout out on the podcast live episode you get the picture $20 gold level member, although maybe I should rename it the Caitlin Ohashi member, improvise song live on the podcast about you, any style you want, $30, prayleon Sunday member that's an autographed picture of Quinn David Fernis, signed seal delivered, I'm yours literally, and $50, that's a topaz elite member, live interview on the podcast to discuss
Starting point is 00:20:05 a topic of your choosing. So those are the tiers we're working with. I take checks. I take PayPal. Venmo is the easiest way. I'm at Quindash furnace and February is going to be pledge drive for month and so we're getting closer to that. But let's move on here.
Starting point is 00:20:25 We'll have plenty more episodes to talk about that stuff. 20 minutes in already. Okay, so we talked about this on the podcast last week, which was our first live episode of 2019, but got an email from a Mr. Rock Chris who again, we're not sure exactly if he is Chris Rock, if he's kind of going under like a pseudonym, a fake name, etc. but we thought it was pretty cool. So I'm not gonna read the original message, but I do want to read my reply to him. So basically it was a pretty standard Nigerian prince
Starting point is 00:21:11 came into a large sum of money type of email. So he wanted my information. So here's what I replied, high rock, great to hear from you. It has been a long and jury winter here in America, and I could sure use a pick me up. I have the information you requested, but first I must ensure you that I am deadly serious when I emphasize the importance of you providing you all this detailed information.
Starting point is 00:21:33 Before we can proceed, it is imperative that you give me your information as soon as possible. And then all caps, fill this form bellow, which was a reference to his original email, please and rescind it to me. So I asked for your name, your occupation, your favorite stand-up comedian, your bank routing number, the name of your bank, and who won Super Bowl MVP and Super Bowl 42. And very important questions. Warm regards, Mr. Quinn Davis for an host, Best Boy the Bean Tom Podcast. So, we get an email already four days ago,
Starting point is 00:22:08 4.11 a.m. in the morning, so you know he means business. But that's like 4.00 p.m. and Burkina Faso where he's from. So maybe it's just normal business. But I actually haven't read this, and I didn't even think about this whole email chain until I literally started the episode. I was typing in email credentials to read this for the first time right now like five minutes ago. So let's read it for the first time reply from Mr. Rock Chris. So he gets right into it not even a dear Quinn. He says my age 56, my occupation banker, my favorite standard comedian, Blank.
Starting point is 00:22:44 my occupation banker, my favorite standard comedian, Blank. Oh boy, three questions in, Mr. Rock Chris, not answering the questions. This is going to be a problem. And we'll send a response and I'll read it next week. But I'm not going to be able to wire him the money because he's not answering all the questions. So let's continue. It's a very long email. Your bank routing number, it's just a random string like 10 to just the name of your bank,
Starting point is 00:23:14 bank of America. Oh, bank of Africa. BOA bank of Africa. Okay. So in America, we say BOA bank of America, because we're American, but here we go, dear friend. I really thank you for your sincere spots to the Miloche sent to you concerning to this fun transaction,
Starting point is 00:23:32 not a great writer. Kind of got my admissions cap on, like I'm reading a common app essay. First saying, no, it's not a great writer and he's not answering my questions. So two strikes, you're out. To this fun transaction, which belongs to one of our foreign
Starting point is 00:23:45 deceased esteemed customer late, Mr. Poole, P-O-U-L. What is that? Lewis Haley. I am the director auditing department of our bank here and I can assure you that there will be no danger or problem concerning to this transaction as far as you are going to fall all of my instructions and advice, then this transaction will be 100% free from any risky, any risky, okay? Because after the first quarter of our auditing this year, I found out that the rightful owner of this fund of 10.5 million United States dollars, which is lying in a dormant account here in the bank for over eight years is dead. I hate when that happens. Please follow this site below. It's a link to something probably open on my work computer,
Starting point is 00:24:30 frankly. The bank had made several attempts to get any of his supposed beneficiary next to Kim to him, but to no avail later I was employed to head the auditing department. So the bank board of directors has mandated me to look for the bona fide next of kin to the fund with the maximum time limit,
Starting point is 00:24:50 or the money will be totally confiscated and returned back to the government treasure as an unclaimed fund. Well, we can't have that. Ah, see, most long. With this very reason I decided to contact you so that I can give you all the directives and vital information with an apostrophe on how you will stand to claim the
Starting point is 00:25:06 fund as the bonafide next-of-kin to the deceased customer for the benefits of you and me. Well, that's very generous of you, Rock. From this moment, what I would like you to do is stand firm and apply to the bank as the next-of-kin to the deceased customer for the subsequent release and transfer of the fund to your own personal bank account, which you will provide to the bank I will be giving you all the guidelines on how you should achieve our objectives for the betterment betterment of both of us I like what you're saying rock
Starting point is 00:25:33 Number one Uh, he oh here we go number one that you will not seat on the money when it is transferred into your account What does that even mean? What else would I do with it number two that you accept that we are going to work on this project with one mind, hence total trust and loyalty to this project must be guaranteed. With one mind, total trust and loyalty, project guaranteed. Number three, that you must not let anybody to know about this transaction. Those all have question marks after them. You seem to be questioning your own abilities, Mr. Rock, but here we go. We're almost done. This is a mouthful.
Starting point is 00:26:13 Here is my proposal. 45% of the money goes to you. 10% for the expenses will join, handle together, and do the expenses. I'm going to repeat that because it doesn't make any sense. 10% for the expenses will join, handle, together, and do the expenses. If anybody out there understood that, send us an email. Let us know. 45% for me.
Starting point is 00:26:41 Mr. Rock, Chris, this isn't a two-way street here. This is my money. This Burkino Fassin Prince left me this money. I don't know why you think you're getting a cut. Plus, if you are really Chris Rock, I don't think you need the money. Finishing up here, then I will inform you on how to start off immediately
Starting point is 00:27:01 in order to facility you in the letter you will write to the bank. in order to facility you in the letter you will write to the bank and form the bank of your intention to have the said some transfer into your account as his next of kin including the full bank address. regards mr. rock Chris and he lets his phone number so let's give it a call see what we get here and it's definitely not an American phone number let's see what we get here. It's definitely not an American phone number. Let's see what we got. Speaker.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Verizon wireless, your call cannot be completed as scheduled. Please check the number and dial again. Announcement for welcome to Verizon. Well, Mr. Rock, Chris, not particularly helpful there, considering that's not a real phone number. So I have questions. Let's move ahead here. I will reply to that at a later date, and we will revisit it next week on the podcast.
Starting point is 00:27:55 But frankly, didn't say his favorite comedian wants to split the money 50, 50, or 45,, 45 because then 10% is for expenses for both of us which we still don't quite understand what that means. But let's let's let's let's keep going here. Let's hear from our advertisers here. Home Pride Oregon. Are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter of what it's worth all because you can't find a reliable home inspector in time? Well Oregon listeners, there's good news. Home Pride Inspection Services in Bend, Oregon is central Oregon's hottest new home inspection provider with inspection services including things like heating and cooling, roofing, plumbing
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Starting point is 00:29:11 I give a shout out to the Samson Q2U series for this beautiful crisp, clean audio quality. I also want to mention, we told the TV Guide story way back in early December when a friend of the podcast, Megan Lungren, came on to talk about, well, she's our holiday season correspondent. So all things holidays and we did some pound drones as well. But I mentioned that I, using my spirit reward miles, bought a, well, I didn't really have to buy it. Received a free subscription of TV guide for this year. I will say I haven't received the TV guide yet, a little
Starting point is 00:29:51 disappointing. Starting to wonder if this whole thing was a scam orchestrated by Mr. Rockcress, unclear. But let's get to 30 minutes in, get to what I'm actually talking about on the podcast here today. A lot of stuff to 30 minutes in, get to what I'm actually talking about on the podcast here today. A lot of stuff to get through here, but everyone who knows me and some people who don't know that I am a big movie buff. I spend a lot of time in the theater. I spend a lot of time at home watching movies.
Starting point is 00:30:22 One of my favorite things to do, one of our culture's most powerful ways of expressing ideas, thoughts, themes, stories, people, etc. So I don't have an official count on the number of movies I watched in 2018. But if I was trying to be realistic, I would say I probably saw between theaters, flights, and my own viewing time at home. It was probably close to 70 or 80 movies that I saw in 2018. Big fan, I started the year off with movie pass back in its glory days. We're talking 9.95 a month, unlimited movies one per day. No restrictions on new releases, no restrictions on anything. You just use it for whatever.
Starting point is 00:31:16 See multiple or see movie multiple times, which I, excuse me, took advantage of to see things like shape of water a couple times. I saw Lady Bird a couple times. Call me by your name, I saw Threys, I believe. So anyways, everything was going fine with that until you know what happened, spring rolls around, movie pass, friends out of money. I stuck around with him until, it was like
Starting point is 00:31:42 mid to late summer is when I finally jumped off the bandwagon, I cut movie pass. It wasn't until early mid fall, I think, until I actually canceled, but I wasn't using it very much because they changed their plan on you. and it's three movies a month, $10, pretty easy, pretty straightforward. I used my $3 or my three movies a month already for this cycle, a trend from Christmas Eve to January 24th. So next weekend, I'll be able to start it again, but it's three free. No restrictions on anything, $10 a month. So each movie at my local theater is 11 bucks, so I save approximately $23 a month.
Starting point is 00:32:36 If I max out the three movies, which most months I will. So pretty good deal. But anyways, people had been asking me for a while what were my favorite movies of 2018 were. So I developed a list which I share with some friends and family this past week. But now we're going to release it to the public. So this is Quinn's favorite movies of 2018. These aren't the best movies of 2018. although some of them are pretty damn good. These were just the ones that I enjoyed the most. The order that I'm reading this in is not sorted by anything, it was just when I was,
Starting point is 00:33:14 I did this list off the top of my head and these were just the way they came to me. So I believe there's 17, 18, something like that in the list. At the very end, I'll give you my absolute top five favorite. There's 17, 18, something like that in the list. At the very end, I'll give you my absolute top five favorite. I also have a list of other movies I liked, but didn't quite make like my, this was my favorite of the year type of list. And then I have a long list of movies that I have high hopes for,
Starting point is 00:33:39 based off of what I've heard, reviews, prep general premises, premises, I don't know, octopuses, octopi, yada, yada, yada. Movies that I haven't seen yet but will be watching in the near future. So let's go ahead and get us started. I'm not going to spend a ton of time elaborating on each movie just enough to give you a little taste, plot summary, et cetera. Starting with American animals, a movie that not a lot of people saw,
Starting point is 00:34:09 starring Evan Peters, Barry Keegan, and Out. And also, when I talk about the starring, it's not necessarily the order of people being built in the movie, it's just a combination of how well I know, specific actors and actors from that cast, and then just how well I think my listeners know. So I'm just highlighting, it's not everybody who stars, it's just a top bill, etc.
Starting point is 00:34:32 I just people I know. American Animals is based on a true story about this art heist in like 2002 at Transylvania U, which is in Lexington, Kentucky. But it's basically these four college kids, and it's a really good commentary on kind of white privilege a little bit, but also just like complacency, how our lives define what gives us meaning, what gives us purpose.
Starting point is 00:35:07 But the best thing about this movie is, if you've seen Itanya, you kind of know the pseudo-documentary style. They do this with American animals, but they actually get the real guys who committed the crime to do interviews. And it's really fascinating. It was kind of a controversial movie. the crime to do interviews. And it's really fascinating. It was kind of a controversial movie.
Starting point is 00:35:28 Some people thought it was really cool that these guys are finally getting their story told. Other people were criticizing it because why should these guys get their story highlighted, a bunch of punk white kids, white privileged college kids, kids etc. But I loved it. I thought it was great Not only is like the pseudo documentary style cool. It's just a amazing Story really well put together like heist type of movie good music cinematography
Starting point is 00:36:02 Acting was solid All that stuff. So yeah, check it out, American Animals, you won't be disappointed, it's a very entertaining movie. Next, the writer, talking about, or speaking of movies that not a lot of people saw, the writer, there weren't any major actors in this, and that's because they actually use real people.
Starting point is 00:36:23 They use the main character and his actual dad, I believe, and his actual sister who has a disability to play these roles. So that's just like the first part of why this is so cool. But it's about a young rodeo star, suffers a really bad head injury while riding that sort of sets up the movie and he endures a really long road to recovery. It's another really good story.
Starting point is 00:36:53 It's totally a white story, but it's about white poverty. Rural poverty, specifically, and how we choose to respond when our sort of like our go to thing in life is like thrown out the window. You think about, you know, if like if you were trained in one specific area or you've invested all of your time, all of your energy, all your just everything into like one specific thing then all of a sudden and you're already you're still like barely scraping by In life and financially and then that one thing is taken away from how are you going to?
Starting point is 00:37:32 Respond so it was amazing Indie film I think like 17 people saw it But if you get the chance if you're looking for a really good story really good social commentary and just maybe you're looking for a cowboy movie, The Rider, really good. One that a lot more people saw started to bother you, another kind of controversial pick here, but Keith Stantfield, Tessa Thompson, Terry Cruz, Danny Glover, Steven Yu, an Army hammer of course, the voices of Steve Buscemi, and who is it, David Cross.
Starting point is 00:38:09 That's right. It's an absurd comedy, kind of drama here and there, but more so comedy about a young African American, kind of nobody, you get the telemarker job, and he learns to adopt a white accent in order to succeed at his job He sort of climbs the ladder really quickly and it gets me in the position where he has to balance His identities between like this new corporate position and his old friends who are kind of bottom feeders Really good race commentary is the first movie by Booth's Riley and kind of like get out from 2017,
Starting point is 00:38:51 started by the year 2018, just like a pretty amazing home run for a directorial debut. This movie is far from perfect, but it's pretty damn entertaining. Great race commentary, really good writing. I will say the third act and I've seen the movie multiple times. The first time you watch the third act is going to throw you for an absolute loop and you might be like upset, angry, disappointed. I know I walked out of the theater after seeing the first time and I was just like man I'm going to give
Starting point is 00:39:25 this time to marinate and think about it, but that I really struggled with that third act. And to this day, half a year after seeing it for the first time, I feel similarly, but just the overall emotional extreme of my initial response or the way it impacted me has been softened a bit. a little bit too much for me, but Army Hammer, one of my favorite actors, like, he can go from his role in the social network, Winkle Vos Twins, Absolute Dix, to call me by your name, who is just like amazing. You love this guy. To back to Dick Person and sorry to bother you, plays an
Starting point is 00:40:14 amazing villain, I love me some army hammer. Check it out, sorry to bother you. Let's keep moving ahead here. First, Reformed, Paul Schrader, guy who has written a lot of Scorsese movies, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Gangs of New York maybe. But he directed this and wrote it. I think I assume it starts Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seafried, and Cedric the Entertainer in a serious role. This is a drama, obviously. We together complex faith, morality, but also environmental and of course we religious themes. It's set against the backdrop of this upstate New York church.
Starting point is 00:41:02 Like more of a, it's this tiny little church and it's more of like a tourist attraction. I'll be at a pretty lame one than like an actual church. You know there's like eight people coming to church on Sundays, etc. It's pretty abstract and it can be kind of difficult to understand everything on the first watch and it definitely doesn't go the way you think it's going to go. Kind of like, sorry to bother you. And the third act, it gets really not quite as absurd as sorry to bother you does, but very much like it takes the world that was built in the first kind of half of the movie. And it just kind of, it doesn't disregard it because it's still set in that world,
Starting point is 00:41:45 but it really changes it quite a bit and just everything gets a little distorted and it definitely didn't go the way I thought it was going to go. And again, complex themes. This is one you'll watch and you'll think like, I don't know if that was a really good movie or if it was actually kind of shitty, but I think the more you
Starting point is 00:42:07 Mayor let it marinate I think the more you'll appreciate it. So and I will watch anything with Ethan Hawke one of my favorite actors That guy's gonna get an Oscar one of these days. It's not gonna be for this role Partially because 824 just chose to release it in like May. I think is when it came out or June And I don't release it in like May, I think is when it came out or June. And I don't know, it's like, I don't know a ton about film production or release dates or release rights, all that stuff, but it is always kind of interesting to me when you have movies and first reformed is a great example of that where it's like, I really feel like if this came out in December, it's got a great chance of maybe Best Picture,
Starting point is 00:42:51 maybe Best Director, maybe Best Original Screenplay, but definitely Best Actor. And now Ethan Hawke is like, Fringe, Best Actor, potential nomination when he was great in this role. So we'll see what happens there. Next one, oh boy, very boy very excited mission impossible fallout. So the sixth one in the series
Starting point is 00:43:11 It's got everybody Tom Cruise Henry Cavill Vingrae, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris comes back for this one Angela Bassett, Michelle Monahan is back Vanessa Kirby and of course Alec Baldwin This is the only blockbuster I have on the list. This movie was fascinating because we all went in kind of thinking we knew what we were going to get. So one's the classic, two is still solid, but just kind of like didn't have a ton of identity. Three was sort of a comeback, but also kind of an individual moving in its own right. And it was really good because it finally had a not finally. Number one
Starting point is 00:43:51 had John Floyd, but Phil Seymour Hoffman was so good as the villain in number three. Number four was like the official okay mission impossible is back. This is awesome. The Burj Khalifa sequence classic. And the number five rogue nation was interesting because it was also really good, but kind of just like a, not a repeat, but very similar style formula, it's the number four, which you don't blame because four was such like a, or back, this is a big franchise again, type of thing. So it made sense that number five was just going to kind of,
Starting point is 00:44:24 I'm trying to repeat, but six is fascinating because it's the first movie in the series that it's like an actual sequel to the previous movie. So Sean Harris comes back. And I think we all just went in kind of being like, okay, it's probably going to be good, but I think we know what to expect from Mission Impossible at this point. Probably gonna be summer to four and five, because that's the formula of Mission Impossible now. Mission Impossible Fallout is one of the greatest action
Starting point is 00:44:55 movies of all time, and probably the best action movie that's been made since Mad Max Fury Road. This thing was just like everything you thought you could get out of a mission possible movie and out of Tom Cruise, they just up the Annie again. Like unbelievably, the famous thing from the production and the filming was Tom Cruise, of course, breaking his ankle on a shot. They use it in the movie. Like, they use that sequence, that actual shot. There are two sequences beyond that that are some of the most spectacular things I've ever seen in a movie. The Halo jump, high altitude, low opening. And you watch like the actual behind the scene stuff and it's there's no CGI this isn't Star Wars Attack of the Clones where the whole
Starting point is 00:45:51 movie is shot on a green screen this is like holy crap Tom Cruise and a stunt actor and a cameraman jumped out of a plane at whatever, like 25, 30,000 feet and filmed the straw. Like, are you kidding me? That's not supposed to happen. And then the helicopter chase, and I won't really say anything about it because it gives way important plot points. But the helicopter chase is just like,
Starting point is 00:46:20 time crews effing learned how to fly a helicopter just for this chase. And it's like an actual, it actually happened. I'm in a loss for words in case you couldn't tell. Two of the greatest things, the Halo jump in the helicopter scene I've ever seen in a movie, just unbelievable. You might think I've seen Mission Impossible, I get it, another popcorn action movie, absolutely not. You have to watch it. It's amazing. Let's move on.
Starting point is 00:46:53 8th grade, LC Fisher directed by Bo Burnham of course. Another movie that came out in the summer that got some decent, just overall like attention slash coverage, but probably not as much as it should have gone. It's a really important movie about the current like social media inspired life of young teenagers, almost not in any like story away sequel to social network, but a really good like if you watch those two movies back to back, they'd be perfect. So, you know, eighth grade, it's what you expect.
Starting point is 00:47:30 Going through puberty and the social media and digital age, I'm not, it wasn't always, not, wasn't always. I'm not a huge fan of a lot of BoBurnham standup or his, like, comedy bits or videos, but he did a really good job with this one, really good writing. It's not the type of movie that has much of a plot, it's just what you'd expect, but it's a movie that is sorely needed, not just for teens and young people to go and find, you know, to identify with what's
Starting point is 00:48:09 happening at screen, but for like people of all ages to go see it and just understand how social media comes into our lives, messes with it, how easily it impacts, just our entire well-being, our emotions, mental health, et cetera. So check it out, eighth grade, you won't be disappointed. Beautiful boy, really tough one to watch. Timothy Shalam, a Steve Carell, Martinnie, and Amy Ryan.
Starting point is 00:48:42 Similar to a lot of the other movies on this list, touches on some themes that are really important in 2018, 2019 that haven't gone a ton of media representation. So it's great that we're finally getting films about these important issues. If you don't know right now, or if you don't know by now, beautiful boy is about Opio, can't speak, opioid crisis, drug addiction in general, another movie about
Starting point is 00:49:13 white America, sort of lower middle class, but based on two true memoirs written by Nick Schuff and dad David Schuff as I think, but of course it's Steve Carell, Timothy Shalamet, Father Son. That's enough for hopefully anyone to see a movie right there, really good acting, but yeah, just really tough to watch at times as you would expect a movie about drug addiction to be, but yeah, Timothy Schell may was able to follow up calling by your name with another really strong performance. So this kid is definitely not just a one hit wonder, although he was pretty good in Lady Bird as well,
Starting point is 00:49:56 but beautiful boy, great movie about drug addiction. True as well, boy erased, another true memoir, this is directed by Joel Edgerton, He stars in it. Of course, Lucas Heges, Nicole Kim and Russell Crowe, Trace Ivane. Wait, didn't know much about before watching this movie, but I've listened to some of his music, and I kind of like this kid. Flea isn't in his blood. I didn't know going into the movie that Flea was going to be in it until I actually saw him show up and I was like, I was sitting next to my brother and I was like, that's Flea. Who's done some acting, but not a ton? If another story that I think most people know about and not by now, but Boya Raced is
Starting point is 00:50:40 about conversion therapy takes place in Arkansas. I believe is where it's set. Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, like down in that part of the country that's not technically the South, but basically the South. But it's also, of course, based on a true story, really good glimpse into conversion therapy. They do a good job of kind of staying true to what it was
Starting point is 00:51:08 actually like. Yeah, it's a really another like beautiful boy, kind of hard to watch. Maybe that's going to make you really upset at times. Not necessarily a feel good movie, but it does end on a happier note than a lot of these sort of sad melancholy movies from 2018. Next, the favorite one that, of course, everyone's talking about Yorugus Lantzimos, Olivia
Starting point is 00:51:38 Coleman, Rachel Weiss, I'm a stone. That is a powerhouse of acting right there. I still don't know exactly how I feel about Lentham Oss and Apologies if I'm not pronouncing his name right. He's a Greek director but he's done things like dog tooth which is a movie I had to watch for a college show in philosophy class. If you don't know, just watch the trailer. That will give you like 10% of the intensity of the movie. It's a movie I'm not going to watch again. It's too much for me.
Starting point is 00:52:15 I also did the lobster, which I think is more well-known than dog tooth. John C. Riley, Colin Farrell, who else is in that movie. I don't remember somebody else famous, but this is the favorite. This is by far his most tame movie in that it, thankfully just takes on different themes than what he usually takes on.
Starting point is 00:52:39 So there's nothing about it that's like super disturbing to watch. It's a period, comedy, drama, sort. It's all about power struggle, and that's pretty much what it is. But of course, when you have three amazing actresses like that, I could watch anything with any of those three actresses. It's not plot oriented, it's kind of slow, it's mostly in the dialogue,
Starting point is 00:53:07 but society, power, caddiness, really good music too. And I'm a little bit biased because the movie ends with the second movement from Schubert's Sonata and B-Flapp major is one of the last three that he wrote, I believe. But this is a slow movement. major is one of the last three that he wrote I believe But this is slow movement it plays over like the last eight minutes on repeat of the movie and then the credits like total Really deep cut from Elton John skyline pigeon and the harpsichord version which you have to like dig to find
Starting point is 00:53:45 I and the Harps Accord version, which you have to dig to find. I remember hearing it when I just saw this movie like a month ago, but I remember hearing it when this credits start playing. I was like, holy crap. I didn't know anybody else in the world had ever even heard of this song. Skyline Pigeon, very early, Alton John, not a movie that many people know about,
Starting point is 00:54:01 or a song that many people know about. But the favorite potential best picture. We'll see. Uh, leave no trace. A movie that I just got to show my friend, uh, Meg Lungren, our holiday season correspondent on Friday night. She had never seen it. Ben Foster, one of my favorite, uh, underrated actors, Thompson McKenzie, sort of trying to do a little Jennifer Lawrence, uh, Winter's bone action here.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Maybe she's getting discovered Dill Dickey of course Scariest looking actress in Hollywood and she knows it hard to believe that this was Debra Granix first movie since Winner's bone it feels like Jennifer Lawrence has had like in a whole career Since that came out what she has But this is Debraergrenics first movie since them. If you liked Winner's Bone, you will probably like Lee No Trace similar cinematography, a very similar kind of simple, there's nothing flashy about this
Starting point is 00:55:01 movie, but it's going to take on really important themes. White poverty in the 21st century again. This time has PTSD thrown in. Another really important theme that doesn't get as much media attention or just a spotlight as it should, but Ben Foster and Thompson McKenzie, like the chemistry between this two, these two was like shockingly good. I didn't know Ben Foster had these acting chops in him. It's a really sad movie. If you are looking for something with like any positivity or anything that's going to make you feel more hopeful about the world don't go see Leave No Trace but it's a really important story. Super sad. It's worth noting that Leave No Trace is the second most reviewed film to hold
Starting point is 00:55:59 and improve the rating of 100% on rat tomatoes. Number one is pattington too. Enough said. Popular vote one here, if Beale Street could talk when that everyone knows about Stephen James. I don't know if it's Stephen or Stefan. I don't know, I think it's Stephen. Kiki Lane, of course, Regina King, among some others, James Baldwin, Novel,
Starting point is 00:56:21 made into a movie, can do no wrong. There might have, I'm sure there have been other Baldwin novels made into movies, but nothing quite like this mainstream. Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, won Best Picture of Course, it was very good. Takes on, it's not like the traditional James Baldwin novel and themes because when I, and maybe, I don't know, depends on who you ask.
Starting point is 00:56:49 When I think of James Baldwin, of course, setting against African-American backdrop, but I think I'm thinking more of like Harlem, sure there's, you know, racial tension thrown in, but more like bisexual literary musicians, poets, that sort of thing. This one doesn't really tackle the sexuality aspect at all, nor does it really tackle like the artist's life. It's much more of just a pure race movie. But that doesn't dimension anyway. If you thought race relations in the US,
Starting point is 00:57:31 even in a very cosmopolitan city like New York got better after MLK, Malcolm X, watch this. It's a story that needs to be told. It's set in the early 70s, I think, Harlem, classic Baldwin stuff. It's great, that needs to be told. It's set in the early 70s, I think, Harlem, classic Baldwin stuff. It's great if Beall Street could talk. Moving on here, mountain. I won't spend a ton of time talking about this one, but I do just want to mention it. I saw this on a whim back when I saw a movie pass with like no clue of what was going on or what was going to be going on.
Starting point is 00:58:07 It's not really a movie. It's more of an art piece. It's kind of a documentary, but not like a pure documentary. It's, there's a narration by Willem DeFoe that plays over like, this is like one-hour movie. And it's just like video footage from planes drones, helicopters of mountains. And then people doing like mountain related activities,
Starting point is 00:58:32 rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freestyle, et cetera. But it's so cool because there's this symphony that plays over the whole thing and then a willem de pho narration. But it's not like in this mountain is in this region and here you can see the skiers it's like he's reading a poem and I'm not sure who wrote it but it's absolutely beautiful and it's just like an hour-long art piece and it's just like it's
Starting point is 00:59:00 really cool I don't know if you're just looking for something different But really visually stunning to watch absolutely check this out. It's just called mountain It's very simple, but I loved it. I thought it was very well done mid 90s. Jonah Hill wrote it directed it Sunny Swolejet Catherine Waterston and Lucas Hedges plays a dick older brother very to me reminiscent stylized of Florida project in that this is sort of just a slice of life. There's no big plot, there's no big culminating climactic event. It's just kind of again white poverty, not rural that it takes place in LA,
Starting point is 00:59:47 but not downtown Hollywood, like far out skateboard or scene, not a ton going on. Kind of looks like Florida project a little bit, but it's just sort of an autobiographical Jonah hell thing about growing up in the early mid 90s, find your community, what to do, and like your mom's checked out and she works full-time, your older brother's a dick and bull is you like, who are you going to turn to for your community?
Starting point is 01:00:18 Really good nostalgic coming of age film. One here that I really want to promote strongly that not a ton of people heard of or have seen, you were never really here. Walking Phoenix stars. This is kind of like John Wick mixed with Taken, mixed with Walking Phoenix, mixed with PTSD. So the second movie on this list dealing with PTSD, it's really violent, very intense in its short. It's 90 minutes, but it's basically just walking Phoenix and this girl who rescues basically taking on the world, really gory, a lot of blood, a lot of death. It doesn't give you a chance to breathe. So kind of like the opposite of mountain,
Starting point is 01:01:10 if you're watching mountain, you're just like relax, like chill, this is a nice movie, I'm just having a good time. You were never really, here's the exact opposite of that. Action thriller, like a Hitman thriller, but one of the best I've seen in a while. Fantastic action, rivals John Wicken that remark, but Joaquin Phoenix, of course, fantastic actor
Starting point is 01:01:35 and the PTSD kind of filter throws on a whole new, just kind of direction to this, otherwise so much traditional story. So that's great. Annihilation. Movie that I think is like starting to get more attention, but again, came out this summer Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Lee, Gene Ranri, is Tessa Thompson, and Oscar Isaac, isn't it? On its surface, it seems a little bit just like a throwaway sci-fi horror kind of like post apocalyptic thriller movie. I think a lot of what people assumed it was was just kind of resting on its laurels of the originality of like the all female cast, like if the Ghostbusters remake was any good.
Starting point is 01:02:27 But you pretty quickly learn that it's like way more than just after earth with female characters. Don't see after earth, Will Smith, Jane Smith, terrible movie. But it gets really philosophical, really fast. And in a way, I had no idea what was coming. Like, I thought it was going to be like a sci-fi horror monster thriller movie.
Starting point is 01:02:56 It turns out to be like a movie you would watch in a college philosophy film class, film philosophy class. So kind of like first we formed, you probably don't get all of it just by watching it one time, but it's pretty deep. And it's the type of movie that's great because there's so many interpretations of what's going on and what it means. So watch an Isleation, really good movie. We are almost done here. I promise. Whew, long episode. One of my longest thoroughbreds, Olivia Cook. My dream.
Starting point is 01:03:30 I love Olivia Cook. What an absolute cutie. Aniteler Joy, Anton Yelchin. Last movie before he passed, course the Star Trek character. That's probably what this movie will be best remembered as, but it's kind of like American Psycho, but in South Christian Bale, it's Olivia Cook and Aneteler Joy. White Suburbia, that backdrop is very important to just the overall movie. Sometimes in the movie it's really funny, other times it's like extremely unsettling and disturbing,
Starting point is 01:04:11 kind of like American Psycho. The chemistry between the two female actresses is pretty good. That's probably the best part about it, but again, it's just like a short little slice of life, but more not like real, like Florida Project or mid 90s, much more. Kind of like if you ever had a dick father and you just have like these fantasies of doing something about it, but then you actually see it played out, almost like a dream on the screen. Here you go, thoroughbreds.
Starting point is 01:04:48 Or like if you have ever had like a dick gloss or anything, here you go, thoroughbreds. It's pretty good. The last one on my list, the death of Stalin, movie that everybody has to see, Steve Shemmy, Simon Russell Beale, Rupert Friend, Michael Palin, Jeffrey Tambur, is really good in this.
Starting point is 01:05:09 This is one of the strangest, yet funniest movies I've ever seen. It takes a real historical event, the Power Shruggle following the titular, what a fun word, titular, a death of Joseph Stalin in 53. And it's just all of these comedians and actors who play these real life people, like Bishemey is Khrushchev,
Starting point is 01:05:38 but they don't use accents or anything, they just talk in their normal voices. And the dialogue between these actors, these comedians is, a lot of it is improvised. And it's just like some of the funniest stuff set against the backdrop of this terrifying communist regime. And there are parts of this movie that are pretty violent. But most of it is just like this ridiculously funny dialogue between these leading men. A really
Starting point is 01:06:15 good movie that you're not sure like from one scene to the next is this scene going to be like death and terror or is it going to be like really funny and a good dialogue. So it's hard to even describe not to mention I saw it in like this time last year, but go see the death of Stalin. If you're looking for a really smart comedy, this is probably, let's see, I'm like in my list now, do I even have any other like pure comedies on here I don't that's the only one yeah go check it out I guess started a bother it was kind of comedy but okay so that's that's the list I also want to give a quick shout out to minding the gap which I hadn't seen when I made this list a little over a week ago, it's a documentary about rockford and follows a couple of kids who are growing up.
Starting point is 01:07:12 In interweaves themes of, well, what you'd expect from rockford. So rest of town, blue belt, the jobs are disappearing, but also poverty, drugs for sure. And then it has a really interesting discussion about domestic violence as well. The type movie that everyone has to see it, it doesn't, I want to be careful what I say here, it's not about humanizing domestic violence, but it does, or okay, I'll say this, it's not justifying domestic violence, but it does humanize it, which I think is an important distinction.
Starting point is 01:07:51 Hopefully, I'm really hoping, I'm really hoping that this one makes it into the five nominated for best documentary. It's not going to win because it's either going to be RBG or will you be my neighbor, but this was a good one, especially being from the Midwest, being from the town that this documentary is about fascinating. So mining the gap, check it out, really good. So before I give my actual top five, here are other films that I liked, but I just didn't quite make my review. A quiet place, black panther, Incredibles 2, disobedience, another Rachel Weiss movie.
Starting point is 01:08:34 Aile of Dogs, a simple favor, hereditary, and a star is born. Here are the movies I haven't gotten to see yet, but we'll soon. And there are some big ones on here that you'll notice that I just didn't get a chance to see when I was in theaters, so I apologize for that, because sure some of these movies are fantastic. Black Clansman is probably the big one. The old man in the gun, Robert Redford, Roma, could watch any time it's on Netflix. Can you ever forgive me, the most McCarthy one? Bound of Buster Scroggs, the Colin Brothers, the also on Netflix, the Mule, Clint Eastwood's movie,
Starting point is 01:09:12 Mining the Gap, was on this list, and now I've seen it, the H2Giv, really good. The wife, Glenn Close, could potentially win an Oscar at eternity as gate, was the Willem DeFoe playing What's His Face, the Painter, blind spotting. Another movie that when I, not another, I saw trailer for this and I was like, hmm, this, I don't think this is going to quite be that good. And the reviews were so good.
Starting point is 01:09:38 And I never got the chance to see it. Widows, a movie that I feel like there's a lot of like trailer action for and then it came out and no one said anything about it I'm not sure if it's actually good and off to read about it Don't worry he won't get far and foot a total indie movie that like Didn't do anything or Attract any attention, but it's walking Phoenix, Jonah Hill and Jack Black like and Maybe Rune Mara, I don't remember she's in it. Similarly, the Sisters Brothers, or the Brothers Sisters Brothers, I think, which is John
Starting point is 01:10:14 C. Rally and Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin Phoenix had a fascinating year because he was in the Sisters Brothers. He was in, don't worry, he won't get far on foot. And he was in Kenya for, not Kenya for, forgive me, he was not in that. He was in don't worry he won't get far on foot and he was in Kenya for not Kenya for give me he was not in that he was in you were never really here. Three movies that I was all really excited about and three movies that just like no one cared about when they came out kind of interesting. White boy Rick which was Matthew McConaughey and I really want to see this because they just pulled this
Starting point is 01:10:45 kid from Dundock High who is not a professional actor to play this big time role in a major movie. I don't know, that's enough for me to want to see it. I'll also see you with Matthew McConaughey. First man is another big one I didn't get to see Although I don't love Ryan Gosling create to bohemian rapsy and into the spiderverse, which I'm excited to see at some point but My actual top five favorite movies from 2018 here you go you waited an hour and 12 minutes for me to get here This is in order. Number one mission possible fallout. It's just it was so good and I'm not usually a sucker for action
Starting point is 01:11:33 movies. This one was just completely different. It's amazing. That's all I have to say. Number two American animals. Again, controversial movie that I loved. I thought it was fantastic. Number three leave no trace. Sad controversial movie that I loved. I thought it was fantastic. Number three, Leave No Trace, Saddest Movie Analyst, Ben Foster, Thomson McKenzie, amazing. Number four, The Death of Stalin. Really funny comedy. Really funny. Number five, sorry to bother you. Again, the Boots Riley film. This one was tough because, again, the Boots Riley film, this one was tough because again, I still have problems with the third act. I don't love it.
Starting point is 01:12:11 But it was such an original concept and the acting was so fun that I had to put it on my list because I want people to see it. Two honorable mentions, you were never really here here partially just because I feel like no one's seen that movie and it was so well done and they also first reformed pretty out there Third act but Ethan Hawk man of safe freed subject the entertainer really good themes Really important movie to see So yeah, there you have it. I've been talking a lot.
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