Hey everyone and welcome to the nerdy of North Podcasts, the nerdy podcast hosted by two Northern nerds and one of you horse Sam. And I'm the other horse Paul. And today we're joined by another special guest. Yes, we've got a very special guest this week, not only the nerd of the month and also she won the coveted prize of being the number one poster on the Facebook group by winning by so many weeks in a row which was just absolutely ridiculous.
We've got the lovely Donna and she's got the month to prove it as well. How are you? So introduce myself I guess I'm Donna, you've probably seen this poster on the group. I'm chairwoman of Silicon which is a Japanese anime and culture event which we'll be in June next year and I also make random stuff like gothic and horror themed random jewelry accessories on my Etsy which is luminous and coven.
It's on a slight break but it will be up again soon and I'll just guess I'm just a general geek. I'm not about Sonic's side when you mention the game. Yeah my eyes kind of lit up with it but also the anime convention I did not know that and my husband is huge into anime so wow I did not know that I have heard it so you used to be deeply. No there's other events I'll get mixed up with in the area but we used to be I put your legislature center and then Seabearn and now in Newcastle because someone's too small.
Oh right you're okay well let me know because I will be there because even if my husband won't be because he's he just gets people and I'll be there by merch for him. Right what we do in a video what's the list to do? So when I actually want to finish suggestions and it was quite fun when I thought, I feel good movies which again wouldn't always come straight in mind but I've actually had a blast thing of these films. Given this one, childhood memories as well so it was quite a nice one.
Other than thinking of scary films to watch. Yeah that's true. This is films that make us feel good right? Yes that's correct.
I've got the assignment right. So it could literally be anything that takes a lot of time in your face so that you give to the woman for these being inside I believe. And just to say as well with Donna I actually first met Donna when I came into the office I don't know how many years ago now it must have been really 10 years ago when I actually designed the first website for Sonic on. So James if you.
I was there one for me before that too. I think yes yeah I think Michael the whole lot that worked with is really wanting to do it but he was a bit shit all the honest so just just put it out there. Well yes so that was the first time me and Donna come in and react it. She has been an asset star on the Facebook page which I just want to see as well.
We hit 3000 members that is absolutely blown my mind as well. I never thought in a single. Oh wow she has a heart. See Donna comes a bit more prepared than us.
Oh my god I wish I probably could zoom now. I was going to take another chat last night with a cat here. I was like I'm totally going to bring one. That's awesome.
I was a bit emotional last night so I did get there as I didn't think of words but I still can't get all the popular in how it has become. It's crazy to think like how it started to have a little brainchild started to where it is to do it. It's just it's unreal. I never expected our core group.
Yeah. People who I know I didn't expect it to go as far and wide as it has done. It's just not crazy. Especially 600 members from America which just how do the fuck I find us?
It's crazy. No and thank you because we do have we do have American listeners as well. So thank you for listening and attempting to understand what we're seeing. I know it can be a little bit difficult.
Certainly. Yeah so I just wanted to get that out there before we started because I'd say I've been personal pride all the idea. So normally we do start with our guests going for the first pick but she's a little bit nervous so she's decided to pass the book to me. So I'll go with my picks and again I've really enjoyed thinking about these films as well because I did get warm and fuzzy thinking about them.
And for the films really strangely because I'm not very well I like music but most I've got surprisingly all these things have big musical elements too which doesn't surprise me with you. And a lot of them have very memorable songs and songs do really it. So the first pick I'll go with today which again surprised me is I've only got one cartoon in this week which I was expecting to be a bit more. And I'll start with a song I'll even sing it to you're gonna get a special trick now.
Yeah I'll sing it. And it will start out says there's no cats in America and the streets are paved with jeez. So I don't really balance for anyone. I don't know you do but I might be wrong so what was.
And the other song that I was making is Cry when Little Mouse is singing it somewhere out there. Oh I'm gone. So yes it's Fightful Mouse Who It's in American Teal the first one. Knuckles West.
So the story of a family, a bunch of family mouse's mice's mice. Russian travel over to America because they've been told that it's going to be perfect, nor cats. And it's going to be a music and it's about this little cat little mouse called Fightful who goes on this music journey and gets lost and loses his family in a bravely heart. And the Americans take to Fightful in the name Colin Philly.
And it's like they just do an amazing fun tale and again like say it's a cartoon. It's not a Disney cartoon but as well which is surprising. I'm trying to think of who made it. I'm gonna have an ome and then entertainment so I'm not too sure.
It was made in 1986 so it might be a little bit too young to remember what I first gave out but it's one of my favorite cartoons of all time. Oh my god I really don't like this film. Really? Oh boo.
Really? Yeah you've not seen it. I've not seen it. You've not seen it right?
At least I haven't pulled that one out of the bag because that's usually what I've seen it but I really do not like this. It's an animal movie that don't do animal movies. I don't like it. I'm too sensitive.
I'm too sensitive. But yeah so I absolutely love to like say the elements. The Brooklyn Mouse could call them good day. Billy.
Billy. Billy. Billy. And then at the end when like I said there's a big fire the mice are getting tricked by a cat that pretends to be a rat and it's just like I say quite emotional and there's a big friendly cat so I've got me and he's got me and he's got me and he's like say the campus cat you'll ever meet and he's so lovely so if you haven't watched it don't I'd purely recommend that you do.
So that's my first first page American tale and you've got to sign out with us as well. So there. I think it wasn't amazing in this time. So who's going next?
Who's being brave? Do you want to go? I'll go next. Right.
My first pick is I just, do you know when you've got nothing else to watch? Nothing to watch. You think nothing can come near you head and I just need something that's not too complicated and it's just a lovely story. It's from it's from oh my god cut the date off.
Oh no it didn't. And it's from 2009 it's now the amazing Meryl Streep. Right. And Amy Adams.
It's Julia and Julia. Pasting. Julia. Oh my god.
No. Oh my god. It's about Julie. I don't know if we got this right.
Yeah. So Julia who is a she's I think she works for an insurance company just up to 9-11 and her job's shit and she just absolutely hates it but she has like this lovely apartment with a fiancé and a cat and she loves Coopin and she starts a blog because she's she starts to go through the Coopbook of Julia Childs. Now for most the UK people Julia Childs might not be a well-known name. She's like a funny critic for us and she goes Julia Childs brought French Coopin to America and she did a Coopbook on it and Julia decides to go through the Coopbook and she blogs about it and she gains a following and she.
But they're a true story is it? Yeah, kind of I think so yeah but she yes it is a true story and she it's the usual kind of rom-comy film where she ends up having a massive fight with a fiancé over the fact that she's getting notoriety because of her blog and then they fall out get back together but she at the end she finds out that Julia I think Julia moans about her and she's so excited and finds out that she actually doesn't care and it's a heartbreak and but it still doesn't it still doesn't discourage her from continuing on and in the end seeing she's just she's warping around every creation because she was a television star very much like very early you know like what Inza Hurry used to do just like show that it's really insunitable this is how you make the kind of thing and there's like a studio set about kitchen and everything and it's just it's such a like I do get like a war when Fuzzy's when I watch it but Meryl Streep is amazing. Yeah I don't think her experience could be wrong I don't think she's made many bad films to be honest like you get it's a parallel story so you get Julia's story of a blog and then you get Julia's child's story of her growing up and going to Paris and learning you know debating the odds of like because she was an American in Paris and you know the stereotypical French kind of book behavior because she has a very distinct voice she um she would hang on hello I'm Julia Childs and that's how she would talk and when she talked like that all the time and it's just a lovely film I do recommend that if it's a crappy doing but nothing else to watch can't recommend Julia and Julia enough it's so good so good that's my first choice no when you said Mel's Drake I thought you want to go ahead and double me it wears Prada or something on my mind I do I do like that film but I think my sister would literally kill me for putting that on my list she hates it I made her watch it when she stayed with this last year and she hates that film so I didn't end it didn't it's cool no it's not good like I've given I offered it's probably past this by it makes it with the cooking aspect that's probably not being something like my straight book no it's not if you say about your film to me by your romantic comedy and I'm in the movie for I'm gonna watch it I absolutely loved it so that's the thing I say that's the main thing if if you enjoy something as I said with these pics literally it could be the scariest or in the childish thing yeah but it means a lot to you it means a lot to you so we're going for Donna's first pick now so my first pick is a 1990 movie I'm probably one of my favorite Christmas movies and probably not something you'd expect to be on my list but a tour m'lawn oh wow Christmas never even crossed me mind so and this is gonna be a joint pick was guess what's on my list yes 100% agree with you Donna so I'll let you tell me why you like it so much first then we'll have that conversation so I remember watching this when I was a kid right and I thought it was the most funniest movie I'd ever seen in my life I don't know that's bad but like you know what he's standing on the nail and he's one of the stairs and like what he sets his head alight and stuff always and the full part though when he's getting electrocuted and kind of dragged it out like what was the funniest I've ever seen that sounds really bad but it was that time it's very like slapstick like the three stuges like the marks with this type type of comedy of all's just one but modern dies but yeah you're right it's absolutely brilliant like Kevin the colour still should have been done for months or at times we'll be trying to be trapped in robbers it wasn't really a fair game but I agree let's be honest there's a lot of there's a lot of things that should not have been done in that film and a lot of arrests should have been made and the main one goes down to the parents says the starting point I get it though I do this is a heartwarming like regardless of that side of it because you look at that you think things like that you look at their adult eyes like what was the parents thinking but as a child I totally get it with the used I don't know if it was the same when you just first watched that film did you want your parents to go away and leave you yes but that's to say how you would react I know how I would I know I would I would have loved it if I'd have been left alone and up to me on devices but I I'm not crafty so my my traps would have been really pathetic and I think it's such a genius film as well the fact that you've got one of at the time one of the biggest kind of mob stars in a children's film like what a genius move well talk about the cast though as well like every single person in that cast was absolutely brilliant and trying to get the list up now because I can't Joe Pesci Joe Pesci Kevin O'Hara who's one of my favorites like Daniel Cernier was an amazing the 80s actor I can say a lot of films he was in and I'm getting John Candy as I can say as a character as a sort of a side thing I think you did a favor to John Hughes it was to Catherine O'Hara it was a favor to Catherine O'Hara because they used to do what is it called it's the it's a Canadian version of Saturday Night Live being part of that click and it was a favor to her and he I don't think even he was credited for it or I mean he never got he didn't get paid for it I knew that was like about the fact that he meant but it was her it was her he did the favor for because they worked together like with them well I think I'm using Levy and they are all part of the same the same little click Rick Marana spill Murray yeah as the role done I brought and stuff like that as well yeah Canadian actors they all worked together they all did favors for each other but as well there was a really scary creepy element in it too like say that or the story when they're telling about the the bit man how he killed his family and used the salt together and that was generally terrifying like say the way the tools are so especially as a kid when did you first say you've done it to say it on like say the pictures or did you say it on VHS no um yeah the probably is beyond VHS I was being a kid around Christmas so definitely not pictures no because I was yeah I was one night you once so yeah so that's fine but it's not as bad as one of our guests saying that she was five when Lord of the Rings came out because that almost broke my heart so what about the other night the worst thing about which she knew much more than Lord of the Rings about the Rings so yeah that was that was fun but not again I remember when I first watched it I didn't get to say that the cinemas main sound likes to talk about this it was from the guy in the car van in the van the van pulls up in your street and you rent a video for the weekend and he couples up on Monday and you give him a back which was a great little service that we provided but I remember putting it on and thinking oh because I didn't hear anything about identity trailers and it was a time like before the internet so there was no spoilers anything I didn't know anything about it over and on I mean I'm putting on show I've heard this is a good Christmas film I'm watching and absolutely breaking down like say that it was every different emotion like you were scared you were laughing like crying laughing at some of things even the similar jokes like well out of the simple the gags like the micro machines and just putting out on the floor and thinking that's such a clever little thing I had micro machines I wanted to do that to me because I was a bit of a twice again but I'm not a people guy but as well that bit was hilarious oh the spider the spider is horrible as well I've come back to the book just when you said the pizza guy that I've done it that was hilarious where you use the video to scare them and what was it said I keep the change of the animal so then films that you see there and that they're all shot specifically for a woman obviously they do not exist but they were shot for a woman but the spider and so obviously spiders are very sensitive creatures they don't particularly they don't particularly like a lot of movement because you move they move and they react to you they also react to sound so they could not get him to scream while that spider was on his face otherwise it wouldn't have worked so what you see is him pretending to scream and the scream is added in afterwards because they and that's why he's deadly still but because they're very sensitive to movement and so if he moved if he was actually screaming like the vibrations and everything he wanted to shut off and we lost a very big tarantula yeah so this was basically before a lot of the protection for animals and that stuff came in because they made that film now they wouldn't use a real tarantula they would actually have a CGI unit or potentially an animatronics one I know about them they didn't have many safety guidelines with animals so it's quite strange to see in films like see in that aspect but brilliant pick like that was one of the ones that first as soon as I thought about field good movies because at that end of that film if you're not nearly in tears or not crying because like Kevin and his mum he realised that he missed it and he didn't want to lose his family it was such an emotional type of ending and say it was perfectly done I'd say I don't think John Hughes directed it but it didn't brought it though didn't it it was Columbus and it was the way around it might be Chris Columbus who brought it and John Hughes who directed it but because they did that didn't they used to slip back and fall with Chris Columbus would write it or direct it and John Hughes would write it or direct it but I put a story for you on the one when I went and told you it's someone dead so just before I went and said when I went and told you I ended up seeing it in the house because of this I was going to the cinema in the metal set neck and you remember it yeah it was weather spoons is now I think yes wetty game access yeah yeah so while we were going there it was a Saturday afternoon it was like unreal like we didn't go to the cinema at the Meryl Center it was either Sunderland or Portland they could never never in the Meryl Center so it was such a treat and we get in we sit down and the film's just about to start and all of a sudden the lights the lights on the side come on and we're all evacuated for a bomb scare so it's in the 90s it's when the IRA were kind of like at a high level and there was a bomb scare in the Meryl Center in the cinema and we had we had a leave and I know we got to see it oh you never think about that and someone like said and get it and get it and get it that type of thing to happen but yeah so but it is it is so yeah and that was my little my little diddy cool so anything I hold on I bet I passed the love for that movie onto me son because I was watching it one Christmas and he was only a toddler like Barry Watburn and I was he doesn't only watch movies and I was watching it and he started getting glued when he was sitting there in Kingsville after so he loves it just as much as me and we have to watch it every Christmas now I love that though that was a big thing to and that you can pass that type of film down to like say that's that's what a good movie is the certain films you can do that with like say back to the future the goonies maybe stand by me when they're a little bit older but it's not really like a child friendly film to start with but type of things but yeah we watched it as a child yeah I think I'll get to it like say parents weren't really I know my parents were a little bit more free with what I was watching next day and the onion uncle certainly like my one of my first horror films was when I was 10 11 watching nine actually three was a bit of an ex-avience but yes and no I can't see anything nicer about this film but I don't think there's anything I would change about it that's the thing yes it's still it's just so portable as well like me my sister and even and still caught from here and we've got a little pop called Harry and if we want to get his attention we score Harry really annoys me mum to the day but he's there and we just are chatting I think that's a whole lot too I think that's yeah yeah how do you feel about the remake that's coming out this Christmas I don't know I know I try watching the turner and who's really if you then I can turn it off after five but it's got the kid from Georgia rabbit not the not the name cast these little friends for the glasses the little chubby one he's came Kevin oh my gosh I'm actually watching I really love that I fell in love with that kid yeah I like to give everything a goal before I make my mind up I'll always try something but I say if you think about doing bother with turn on who's the remake Jesus after it's turn on who's a special film anyway but it's it's not one of the go for it did upset us I'm not gonna lie it's gonna dog it on that watch it so anything else you want to add that don't I'm happy with that well done so you made it be made a snatch so good first pick so I think don is winning so far so we'll get by the point so far even though we've never done a point system I always do in my head in my head I always do the point system I know I know who wins each week so I'll never tell you but I don't want to start them twice it's always a bit so Matt we'll go into my second pick so this one isn't it's it's it's really hard to try because it's not something that I would say is I really love it I just don't know if everyone else does I mean that the mic do because it is holding up a cent of round it's from 2006 it's stars at Rick and again our gale brazilan Steve Carell Alan Arvin right it's a little bit sunshine ah so it's one of our previous guests you talked about with Kelly and she loved that film as well it's so good it's so good but it's really hard to tell you why it's so good oh my god 20 collects in it too yeah yeah it's just it's just such a like a lovely a lovely feeling like a crummy eyes out in it and there's one specific thing that I could say because all it's about is a little girl who is she's not she's not your conventional beauty pageant little girl yes she's she's different she's normal she said normal yes she's normal she's a completely normal child who just she loves the pageant she's seen and she presses a heart out and she won and she she didn't actually when she came run her up but then the person who won in her area and got knocked knocked off our top spot it was like a local pageant and she then gets to go to the little Miss Sunshine contest and which is somewhere I can't remember where it is but the family have got to travel to it and at the same time she's found out she's won this they're bringing home 20 let's bring in home her brother Steve Carell who is recently just getting out of the psych ward causing you try to commit suicide Abigail's presence brother who is actually he's got something to do with new films Tim and I remember the grandfather been in it he was a bit mental in it as well wasn't he Alan Arvin he's absolutely amazing and but our brother is on silent they're just given everyone the silent treatment until he can go to cadets go because he's my mum won't let him go but anyways decided to go on this this journey to this pageantry on a boss and it's like just a little mini adventure a little mini adventure and Greg which absolutely breaks his and Paul Danore that's who plays the program so he was a and that will be blood that's it I knew he had something to do with that so he's so good little Miss Sunshine and the scene that absolutely breaks my heart is when he realized he's color blind right yeah any if you're color blind you can't buy planes and that's what he wants to do and he just because he's been silent this all along he just he starts shaking the boat like shaking the car that the rain and then he eventually just screams and gets out and it's talking heart-breaking and but then she gets to the pageant she does that amazing dance at the end with her granddad which is totally very inappropriate she didn't because her granddad died I just remember Alan arkand died I was saying that I was saying this but I don't even know Alan arkand passes away during it which is again a bit hilarious scene because this kid that he's body and tipp it with them and but yeah she does the routine that she that I grandpa the torta and it was a strip of roots super freak which you just do not expect because you think like all she does is watch these pageantry stuff so you're like oh she's clearly like learned from that no no he taught her how to do it's a super freak and the whole family end up joining that and it's just it's just lovely it's hard warm and it's just with this Norway I don't know how to tell you like to express it I think it's one of them comedies where it's like an uncomfortable comedy as well it's a bit like and Napoleon dynamite nowhere where it's the same type of feel it's even got the same type of look I can say the camera shots and so on I know it's done a bit of the quiet so I take this another one that you've not seen yeah I'm gonna tell you that's three I've not seen now and it's I do recommend a dollar it is it's just it's lovely like there's no other word to describe it that it's lovely you will fall completely head over heels for this family like it's so yeah if you like the camera in Napoleon dynamite it is very similar type of way where it's like awkward with Steve Carell being in it as well it is unconventional it's not the same type of humor that you would see in the office or anything like that no it's not that's it's a very different sign to Steve Carell it's the one that you rarely get to see because if you were Steve Carell event which I am you know you pick him up with Michael Scott and he's character and anime and you know and all mighty and that's and that's stupid these best films being 40 or 40 or 40 year old that made him that made the office because he did for your version after the first season of the office and that's what helped elevate the office I still love that scene when actually waxes chess because it did that reel that was his real reaction and she was an actual beauty therapist and you could tell when because he's looking at the outtakes as well because they keep getting to do it and she's looking trying not to laugh and being painful and just getting sworn out and swear but it's absolutely like comedy goals and the fact that you can actually put him through that as well because I remember I college that trying to do that to me at the Latin worm at the end of the show I was not happy it didn't have a nice effect to me it was bloke I was not it was not pretty such when was this uh it was probably something at one of the end of terms like see it's when we used to win pick the one pound balls of whatever alcoholic beverage that had about time my god probably kind of can I got something like that was a pills or something like that no we just say but we're going to money for the rest of the whole week yeah but yes the carellers just so different in this it's just he's he's he's funny but not like over the top hilarious basically funny like he is is michael scott if i'm going to give out your comparison to any of these characters he's just the complete bipolar opposite i'm not sure i'm like last it's weird i'm saying sure that karate plays a game on he's so straight in it like very straight in it um he's he's intelligent he's um he's a professor is he has something like that he's like a lecturer it was like like say a lecture but i believe what he's one of these where he's just hard so much shit he just just just when he's talking he's like you can tell he's just not doesn't give a that's the best type of i would say i would describe him as but again it's it's one name films where it hits all the right notes at the right time um but i didn't say that one comment so well done so i like that pixel well done that's uh but for me it's going next it's not a stem now so it's going to be okay my second pick is more of a recent one from 2017 and i absolutely love the person who's in it he's a body's not but it's the greatest showman ah yes so are we going to start second for us i will i only watched this the other week or the month sorry i only watched it for the first time i have put off and put off it was it's me high school musical because i never watched that because i knew five more the bad data was gonna fall in love with it and it's just not i don't need another musical to overtake me like how much did enough for us and a good friend oh god and my friend um convinces to watch it and i'm not a fan of the film but i love the songs yeah songs are phenomenal a lot of people will be like that i don't like high school musical i hate it i stop myself from watching and i know you don't like it while you're watching it things no it's not a title it's not your preference of opinion um i've never seen it's one of films that probably is i won't i've seen great showman sorry i'm not saying high school musical sorry just gonna be okay but yes actually from donna's post on the facebook group i'm no surprised that huge acumen is part of her pick i think this is probably sort of a major point of the reason why you've chosen this film is that right well i don't like it just because huge acumen isn't it i did i remember seeing the trailer and i was watching something i was like that looks really good so i booked it and i went on release date and i was sat right at the back in the center of the screening and it was packed there was not a single seat there and the oven and scene like when he's singing from being a child to grow and i'm like i should have given his goosebumps like when he gets to the scenes of the bed and then he gets handed the apple i was like yeah this is gonna be good and i just really enjoyed it like i came up there cinema like feeling at me as fire it was so good yeah it's one of them things where it is the american story of rags the riches losing it and um getting the girl at the end um the only thing again no not in the film i'm trying to think of a name now because again i'm not a biggest fan since dawson's creek um the last thing i've watched called they excited no no no Michelle Williams i've never been a charity yeah i was never a big fan of her in any film that she's been into us i don't think oh actually like me as in my week in marillon just so good i never liked zach efron and a single film or anything i'm telling what to do at showman and then i liked him obviously he's done some good stuff more recently but before that i haven't liked him anything yeah i think the first one i saw him and i actually did realize he can't be undo she is basically uh was it about neighbors with septhre i abs roggin they absolutely love that movie that's when i said i said he started to make better choices yeah because of it at that point he was not making good choices well he was because he was being a teen idol it was then one from being the teenage girl the transitive to the big film because a lot of big disney stars find out the hardest thing to go from going from child actor to big thing but like to the greatest showman um his performance when he sings next to huge appland um i can't remember the song but it sounds very chile peppers in fame and when you hear it back it sounds like a chile peppers song when it's like we're the time of getting into business together and passing the drinks um to the other side to the other side but it feels like a chile peppers song um well all the glasses sliding across the bar and stuff i was saying that earlier actually but um it's got all the key elements like um heartfelt it does get emotional and it gets too involved with that um like silla the opera singer who takes advantage of the situation to try and get in trouble um yeah um jenny lind by the first person first singing in that as well like that gives us the thing is about this it was overplayed like everybody overplayed these songs so badly and i think people didn't like that so i can't take a look from it a little bit i would love to say this i would love to say this on stage that's not actually saying that's not saying no she can't sing um she is in obviously isn't she yes she plays the hat um god what's that is something that has rose the hat or something like that um no that is not her singing it is somebody else um yeah it's um hang on i can tell you because i had a look at it all because i was watching it i was like she's either really bad singing to the the song or that's not her singing um it's laurin allen to provide the singing voice all right yeah sorry to like all the songs i'll catch you even makes it when like a big lady come out and on the end performance i don't think there's a bad song in there which again a lot of musicals can be hit on this and i like the fact that it wasn't an all-out musical as well like i think certain films have made the mistake of like that was one of the things i didn't like about uh sweetie told the demon barber of uh big estate and was the fact that everything all word that was in the film was signed and it kind of tracks on the performance um but no topic exhibit it's one of them films where you think oh i don't know what you want to watch it but as soon as you start watching it you can't stop watching it and you can pick up at any point so like i said before i would love to see a theater performance of it i think it would really suit being like seeing the empire theater scene like all the performers and that i think it would be like a big top performance i saw the clip and then in London and one of the cinemas where Hugh dakman made a random appearance afterwards i was like oh i wish i was there it is interesting because that's where Hugh japan did start out though it wasn't because he it was a stage performing like performing loads of musicals i think the big one he was before he got all the rain was all the format and i think that's was his big big stand-up performance before because i think they've done an interview with Graham Norton and they got him to perform and he sang and he can sing that block can't fucking sing as well you don't have fingers have you ever seen the behind the scenes of the Megan of the film i'll figure it out you can't see me very sure man yeah so if you go on youtube you can find clips of it and there's one where the beaded lady because of the difference it's down rehearsal and there's a um the beaded lady she she's a very shy lady and her song is obviously a big number and she stands behind the podium very shy very like she didn't she's got such a powerful voice and but she's like very shy and then all of a sudden she just bursts out from behind she's got all like the the ensemble like some of the cast of huge happens there and it's more the background cast like the cholores and just in a rehearsal room and she just bursts out from behind the music stand she's hiding under and just this i would just start to merge in front of you and all because huge acumen just grabbed her hand and squeezed it and kind of give her a it's okay that you think that the song you need to remember what the song is kind of thing and and huge acumen it just you can see on him if you look closely he's got a fast-running nose and he just gone through treating first skin cancer again and he was told he wasn't allowed to sing in the rehearsals you could do it in the film that because of the time but he needed to recuperate he needed to relax and when they were doing him from now on he couldn't help himself so we had someone else taking his part and he then just you can see him just build up and build up and then all of a sudden he just starts bursting into the song and the rehearsal part is just unreal to watch with his clips of it on name on youtube to be fair though if i say i'm quite happy with my sexuality but if you're jacking squeeze me i don't know i think i might turn from a little bit. Another thing about this is that um this me and me by the first CD and DVD that i'd ever bought for years actually went to go round for like two hours in the car just a second.
So you know it's one of the things i can't remember the last CD i thought that might say that takes it back now with all the downloads and stuff but uh yeah makes it like that great showman but it is a very hard-filled feel good for him. I have to point out as well otherwise my dad will kill us though he will watch right just because i have much like a movie he sent if you can see there he sent a great showman DVD away to get created in a special case for him. Oh i couldn't make it out now i couldn't make it out before i could see something that had like a graded stick or something like a stereo at the top of something. It does go with the video he was like since you like the video it's only graded item i want to random but you feel.
Tell you what obviously there's a cool steel book um blue rev version of the great showman and scotch like the big top and if you see it i would always make it look as it always looks quite funky you don't actually want to be self but it is one one's i am on the level for so yes so yes great showman anything else you wanted to add there is it are you happy to move on? I'm happy with that. Cool so is it my pick now? Yep.
So you know the other un-unmusical pick would have been home alone but we've just discussed wonderfully with um don't speak as well. The other one again this is from 1971 so again before i was born but uh exe know they like me all these especially exe with when they remind us of me childhood and it was a rolled all book originally but they couldn't use the actual name of the rolled all book because rolled all done that actually liked the film and started jean welder so come with me and you'll see a world of pure imagination. Now this is one of the scariest kids films you'll see other witches from rolled all because it is terrifying at times but as a family film and things that you see going through this film i absolutely adore i can't exit not watch this film at least once a year. I don't like it.
So at least we're found to film that fun of saying now so that's always good. So once enough pick the film that sound doesn't like so so what do you want to do like about a wonderful tale about the young boy living his dreams and winning a chocolate factory? Okay I don't like it I don't particularly like the story. I was never a fan of the book and it's like the argument where the Wizard of Oz.
I'll give you a really decent answer as to why I don't like it for a strong night watchnet. So it wasn't for you. I can understand because like I said there's creepy elements like there is very scary elements to this and like i brought rides when they're going through is absolutely free of inducing. I remember as a kid I had actually we fast forward that bit at times because it was a little bit intense.
The bits went after slugworth is intimidating the kids to get them to get their laps in god's door but again it is quite creepy and then mumble numbers fucking else. When they come out your bullshit was going to go down but they say the creepy they work a little bit but I love the elements. I love the legacy of the story that gets a story about family. I grant my jaw the best benefit cheats you'll ever know not getting out of bed for how many years and soon as he's sung grandson wins a prize to get some free chocolate or he can dance he can move he can ship with the boat and it's cool.
It's cool mama who's had a work just appear for fucking bread and cabbage soup for them. I would have been a bit pissed off there but other than that this element is just absolutely magical and fantastical. Yes I did say that in that order as well. The fizzy lifting juice I wanted that I wanted to fly and make sure that they have that fun as well.
The river of chocolate and all them sweets my god as a chubby little kid as I wanted that so actually yes x-x and all that did remake it a few years later with which Tim Burton butchered in my eyes Charlie and the chocolate probably the world I've used the actual name of the book but this one was called what do you want go and again I I see it's quite an essential British movie making as well I think because it's got a lot of British actors of around that time that win it and the other kids you couldn't help but hate like for results Violet Bogart they were the most longest of them. Violet was the one that just wanted to keep chewing and eating like chewing everything and that's enough to hear the girl. She was quite obnoxious. Yeah so it wasn't what.
Yeah she wasn't a nice person like she said none of the kids had redeeming coldies like Augustus was just greedy. Mike TV was just a nine-0 prat but I can say and I can say the main one Violet not Violet coming in. Yeah. Veruga Salt.
God everyone you'd have to go that school as well. It was like a college school. I thought it was probably why you don't like it because you related it to the one that you wanted to get. I identify too much with Veruga Salt.
I can say with the songs as well you can't think of the film without thinking back to all the songs that was in it and even them makes it a good mix like Cheer up Charlie. I'll say with someone who even gets us either. The only time I've probably again not the most popular guy in the world right now is when I saw Marilyn Manson and he came out on Stilt with a massive chandelier swinging it around all over the place being the showman that he was doing the opening the the the bort song. All right.
The really creepy one. I had it was so fucking good but that was when he was so fucking good. Yeah. But yeah that's probably the only thing I liked about or some ways is him doing that version.
You don't even like the golden one. I got a golden ticket. I just think I was talking about the time. I'm going to have golden things.
This movie makes a single bit of me nanos on a sideo. Like everyone went around for like a pity. You know it's always on like every time. I love that.
I love that though. That's it. It's such a northeast thing isn't it? It's true but it's that type of emotion that these type of films do bring back like especially makes it the ones from like a lot older like from your childhood as well.
If you think about it, you can think about watching it'll be grandad when you don't know. Watching it with like silly parents. Even at times with your brother. Some of the times when maybe brother can actually talk to each other is watching like stat films like this.
So I like that little nosey. I brought you back. That's basically the films done the job. That's all it did.
Again at the end it is the first I say a little bit of a twist on a film. I think what he wants was a bit of a dick by saying or etc etc etc. You get nothing. Yes and then it turns out that Charlie was up here as kid and passed the test and he got the case in the chocolate factory.
So yes it is emotional in every single way. So yes I love it. Not my cup of tea. Not my cup of tea and my grandad would be the same agreement as me.
Not like it. We're not going to agree with everything. So that's fine. Point we don't need to agree with everything.
So we've moved on to mine. My next one is a film. I love I know all of it. I know all of it.
It has the greatest soundtrack because the soundtrack probably makes us what makes me feel warm and fuzzy and touristy and just want to cry when it comes on. It's from 1998. It only scored 22% on Mountain Tomorrow as well. It is probably one of the biggest core classics.
It's starred. Can't think of a name. Oh my god. I think of a name.
I'm looking right at it. Sandra Bullock. Alright. Nicole Kidman.
We're talking practical magic. Alright. Don't tell me you don't like it. Don't.
I can't remember watching it. Watch. I'm in the sim. What is going on?
You've not seen practical magic. No I'm sure you've picked this before. No I have not. I thought I meant to talk about this but my sister my sister alright.
I did not pick practical magic. You don't want to do any real changes again. No it's not a real change. My sister is practical magic.
I did not. And I'm sure I said that last time I didn't see. I honestly thought you would have seen it. I feel a bit silly now.
It is so lovely. And I can't believe it got the score that it did. But it is kind of like a cult. I would say a cult classic because I don't think it did well in the cinema.
I think we'll have the discussion next day. I love the colours and the colours and the colours and stuff. But with one of them films I did pass me by. Well it's on prime right now.
It's completely best for watching because it's the Halloween season and it's very it's just it's a town I would love to live in. Yeah there's a lot more Halloween films I'll be watching this Halloween so it's just lovely. It's a witch story that isn't too it's not the craft. It's like it's like the crafting horgas, porkers and practical magic that is right in the middle of it.
Because it's got the same vibe as Salem. I don't think it's set in Salem but the town that I live in is very Salemesque. It also has obviously the craft is involved in it. So you've got the witch side and it's just it's a story of two sisters and I have a sister who I'm very close with.
And it's Mikaela always says this, Frozen is her is her sister film and that's where she gets our sister in or she she loves the sister bond. Well practical magic isn't that for me. Yeah. It's just it's beautiful because you don't just have them two sets of sisters.
You've then got her daughter, her son who looks daughter to her two sets of sisters and you've got their answers well. They were played by the great Diane Wies and stuff like our channing who just look aesthetically amazing. Wearing all the old witchy kind of clothing. It's just they're absolutely fantastic.
I cannot recommend this enough. It is so good. So good. So it's a bit of a bit of a witch's but wholesome film as well type thing.
A wholesome witchy film that just brings you nothing but just soundtrack alone. Because I've got the soundtrack on the thing. It was every little thing you do is magic. Not that soundtrack.
The actual score runs through it. The doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. That runs through the whole film. It is just I just get goosebumps and I want to cry and love it.
It's one of the most I've ever spoken about. I do apologize for this music that has come on this thing, my singing and something. What would I put it off? I don't apologize.
If you put it with my Jurassic Park singing last week and I'm sure I've sang before in here. I'm not apologizing. I love singing the theme tunes. To be fair though I was half-exped and done and I do a bit of a dance and matches renowned for now.
But we'll find the same thing I'm getting to do with it. That's something. Might be to save it up. So another one to add to your list is Has to be practical.
Just go to at least say you've seen it. I don't say you have to fall in love with it just to say you've seen it. I was going to walk up here the other week actually. And I had a feeling that you might put that on your list.
So I should watch it. I wasn't going to go down the horror route because I'm trying to stay away from that until we get to October. Say no. I did take horror movie out of my list.
I did have zombie landing there but I thought I thought I'd change it with Woody Wonka. So zombie land was a bit of a good choice though. I don't feel good about it because I love the list part. I think it's not the bridge.
It's all cleverly done. Especially with the zombie genre as well. You don't expect that kind of cleverness from the zombie genre. But no one just it's just warm and it's all to me.
Like we sit on our Instagram that I was watching it. We sit instantly text us and say, can you stop? It's still summer. I do not want to be watching or thinking about autumn yet.
And it's like no killer. It's this booby season. It's here. You've got to get used to it.
Uh huh. So yeah. My pick is practical magic that I have not picked before. That was the other one.
Well, I apologize for insinuating your honor. I have my list. I have my list. I'm going on to...
So it's done, isn't it? Yes. So it's just pick number three, is it? Yes.
So this one has been on one of your podcasts a couple of months ago. And I was going to take it out because of that reason. But I love it too much and I ended up switching. I ended up putting it back in.
So this is a 1993 movie with Robin Williams in and it is Mrs. Dahlfire and I could not put it on my list. So I needed it on my list. It is a good field-run movie.
Even though the lessons throughout isn't really the best type of lessons. It is a family film. So what do you love about it? So I know we've discussed it before.
So I'd like to hear what you've got to say. Yeah. Let's see. Well, a lot of the comedy aspect.
The impressions, the hot dog impression. Specifically the hot dog impression. It's just everything about it. You watch it and you can just relax watching it.
And one day I just had a shower and decided to cover my face and wipe shaving cream and that and we got to come in and I did the hello and the absolute fuck themselves. That's amazing. So we have to do that one time on the podcast just to say what the... Just to talk a bit of the banjo.
Say what it is reaction to be. It is, like I said, it is a quintessential family film. Even though, as I said, it is a huge comedy aspect and probably it is one of Robin Williams' biggest films. I would say, monetary wise, I think it absolutely smashed everything it made.
But it is... No, sorry, go on. I'm a kid, yeah. No, it's basically about a dad wanting to spend time with these kids.
That's basically the end of like, even though how many mistakes he's made or exactly if he's married just breaking down. It's about him loving these kids and there's not many films or, except stories that has that element. That's what I got from that. That's what I really enjoyed.
I just had it if you're looking for a feel good film. That aspect makes it a bit hard. That's what I thought was a lot of money. I throw stuff off of Clearsprong.
Brosn's head and said it was a drive-by. I'm Adam and they called him a loser after. I don't particularly want me to watch it. I do like it.
I can't say you can't not say you don't not like it. But I just love that it's 2021 and it's still finding audiences. Like today, kids are still, like, be friends, nieces. They've watched it for the first time.
They have a day and absolutely adored it. I just love that a film is so timeless like that. But it does have a really good message in that. He wasn't a bad dad.
There was no reason for her to take you the kids away at all. And he fought for it. And I love it. And I love the seriousness and the comedy and how well they play side by side with each other.
I think I think Ron Williams had great balance with that. If you look at his latest roles, they were quite dark and scary. But also had a bit of mixing when he done comedy, there was no one better. There was literally not many people could touch him.
Like, even if they go back to his modern identity as that, I'd say, things he used to do was just ahead of its time. And he stunned up. It's still one thing to go back. I would certainly recommend checking out these stand up comedy because I would have paired any amount of money to see him live because he was absolutely on fire when he was cracking jokes.
But as he said, as a feel good movie, it's a lot of people to get away to drag queens as well. So it was the first me interesting film where, like, see, it's all about in drag, which wasn't very popular back in them, it is. So, like, we can probably sign for a RuPaul's drag list. Mrs.
Doubtfire, I don't know where. I want to try to get the heaven, the heaven, the wicked, everything right in the doing, the matchmaking going mad for me. I also love the dinosaur bit as well. Yes.
When he starts, I talk about the dinosaurs. And that's when he gets the big rig as well. So the guy kind of sees him. And then Mrs.
Doubtfire becomes everyone's nano at the end, where she basically gets it on shore and makes it a little bit of redemption as well. So it was a good choice. I love that. I'll actually, I'll talk about Mrs.
Doubtfire as one of my favorite comedy films as well. So I can watch it over and over again. Alice, for the big demo. Give me a wave.
She drops it. Do you want to go first? No, no, go. The bit where it's trying to get in the word ready, and he drops his mask, it'll win on the two kids, all the gold, all the love on the heads off.
Oh, I love this. Well, that was cool. Sorry. No, no, no.
I keep interrupting people, I'm sorry. I was just going to say, like, as I said, when he gets interviewed by that, like, makes it a social work. That's when the masters drop off and he's like, say, panic content. But as Sam said before, his brother is absolutely hilarious.
That's what I was trying to say. Harvey Burns is a fine scene. Harvey Burns, I can't say it properly, is just absolutely unreal in this. He is a master Broadway star.
And you know that I am what I am. That from the, does that make you've ever seen the Queen's and RuPaul Drag Race, Pierre Homage to him at the Pride Awards? It is Ginger Minge. With Alyssa Edwards, Tatiana, VB or Hara.
It's all stars too. Cast some of them in. Oh, and Alyssa as well, in the Pierre Homage to him. Because obviously he's a gay activist, gay rights activist.
And he's Broadway as well. And the singer, Ginger, sings that beautiful version to him. And he's just all in his eyes out. He's hysterically crying and it's just, oh, so good.
And I just love him in this. I love his voice. His voice is very crummy and stuff, I guess. Yes.
I see it as a film. Not as a film, I think it's one of the best films in the last 20 years. There's a 20 million people in the lobby now, Jesus, that's all the time. It feels like that.
It's got to be at least 20 years old. Just like, just like, 1993, was it? Did you say? Yeah, 1993.
Yes. This year before Khabim died. That's fine. That's how I measure things.
So Sam got a dead person in. Yes. So I'm happy with that pic. Any further anyone?
Anyone? I believe that, I mean, that was just a thing with us. I bet you know that. At you?
In the meantime. No, I'll get it. Yes, no, cool. That's a bit of that.
So I'll move on to my second from last pic. Again, it's not two years ago, but there is a big son number in it that is probably one of the best things in the film. I obviously adore this film. I know I get a lot of shit.
It's cheesy. I'll stay down the witches route because Sam's talking about probably magic. It's 1993. That middle of Sarah Jessica Parker.
I put a smell on you. And now you're mine. So yes. How have you picked this before?
No, I've never talked about August Focus as of yet. I haven't seen it before this earlier. It was a month ago. No, this is...
I thought you. No, no. I think we've mentioned who August Focus will never actually pick because it hasn't come up to things. So I'd say it's not...
I would say a scary film on the horror film. It's not an old and serious comedy. Do you know what? I'm getting mixed up with the witches.
Yes. The witches that was it. Which I actually was watching on this the other day. And it was classified as a horror film.
Mm-hmm. Because you were worried it wasn't going to fall within the horror category. And I was like... Oh, no, I was quite happy with that.
Yeah, I was quite happy with it being a horror because I'd say it's fucking terrifying. But, um, I thought it would be a bit controversial. But no, I hope it's August. If you want to feel good film, Halloween film, you can sit down and this is where Sam will probably sell this as a magazine.
I absolutely love this film. I would not be true to myself if I did say that I did. What can you not like about this? And yes, I have musical number when she sings.
I put a spell on my wedding song as well. Oh, well. I had this on my wedding. It wasn't a bit middle-sink in which I would have loved.
It was the Nina Simone version. But yes, I put a spell on yours on my wedding song. On my honeymoon, we went to Florida on Halloween. And we went to Miggies Not So A Scary Halloween Party.
And the opening of the park was the Sanderson Sisters coming out in front of the castle singing. I put a spell on you. Did you know what? I would literally be in hysterics like crying my eyes out, me and Caroline have planned on a trip to LA for our 40th.
And we're doing it when we're doing it course Halloween, then it goes to September and October. Or because I want to experience Disney and Universal's Halloween. I love that. And obviously there's a lot of other stuff that I want to do in Los Angeles, all very surrounding.
But that is the joyful side of it is I want to do the Halloween Horror Days and such. I want to literally go ball my eyes out from start to finish. It is so much fun. But going back to, like I say, the Hocus Pocus Pocus's element, like I say, the cast.
Looking for a fun cast. As I said, Sarah Jessica Parker is absolutely beautiful. As Ben Milner top notch as one of her. Kathy, I can't pronounce her surname now.
And I'm Jamie as Mary Sanderson, which you don't really know a term or find name, which has been in a lot of things that you've probably noticed around the shores. And again, the guy you played, I'm not going to try and get in. The guy you played, Max was in one of my favorite TV shows as a kid, Eerie Indiana. I don't know if she's at the same time.
Course we're seeing here. Wow. My mom's favorite thing is the Eerie Indiana. The first episode of The Chocolate Foreverware.
Any time you bring up the doubleware, my mom will go for the weatherware. She will correct you because my mom loved Eerie Indiana. And my mom does not do spooky things, but she loved that. And it also had a lot of these names because I didn't call them by this before.
I called them something completely different. He played Billy. Yes, he's in lots of things. Doug Jones.
He was in Hell by Billy the Butcher. There's a headless zombie book. It's just a fun run. Flexi, it's got a dead ghost girl.
It's got a possessed cat called Thing. So it was the most adorable thing. Other than Seal of the Cat from Sabrina, it was probably my second favorite black cat. Even the music element, when Sarah was singing, come little child, I'll take the win.
He was very creepy. He was scared of shit. I've done my job. That's the main thing.
As I failed, I'd feel him. Again, it hits on all the right notes. It's entertaining. It's just fun.
I can't describe it. It's not fun. I know what we're talking about. Did you ever see Avi and John and John?
Now you've got a TV show to download. You're going to be creepy and creepy, don't you? Very much, yeah. This is going to be right up your street.
I've not heard of it. I don't think. I think we've talked about a few times on the FESburg group. It's a couple of times.
It wasn't that big. It was not only on Channel 4, I believe. When we were kids, you weren't even born then. Don't worry.
If you got to get to the FESburg box, or like, do a session. I think it's definitely done already. Look on YouTube. I'm sure with the first episode, it's on there.
I don't know the whole series, but definitely the first episode. That'll give you an idea of what the show is about. The best part of the whole film is the location. It's sent to the Mestry.
I want to live more than anywhere in the world. When we get Kelly Moon on this, you want to be very jealous of Kelly. I'm coming. One or two things is going to happen.
Am I going to fall in love and be in total? Or I'm just going to be so jealous I walk out? I don't think it's an in-between. The location of Salem is just, I think, perfect.
It's like another element, another character to the film. I love it. It's such a feel-good all-around in Disney Channel 24-7. Throughout the year, it's not seasonal.
It used to be on Netflix. It's on there all the time. And in 4K as well, the Disney Plus as well. It looks very shiny.
Yes. I'm going to say all them cracks in that middle space before she turns youthful again. One of my favorite bits is, I know it sounds even a little simple, is the devil bit, and the three, which is, I think, that Matt Sill is sitting there. They get all excited, and then, they get a bit end up getting attacked by Sill's little minion in the dog that with the little devil wings, that just pisses me self-laff and watching her.
I know who they are, don't you? I think we've talked about this before as well. Yeah. Yeah, it's Sam.
I can't think of a name on the top of my head. It's Gary Marshall, who's the brother of, oh my god, what is her name? What's her name? She's massive?
She's dead now, but she's massive. Penny Marshall, that's it. Penny Marshall, who is the director of Big? Yeah.
And yeah, I totally love that. I think that's what we talked about. Yeah, I think that's what we talked about. Hope was focused last time as one.
We talked to a big. So I think that's when the last time we brought up to that conversation. All right. Well, he's a question for you.
What do you think of the fact that they do in a second one? Interesting. All for it. I'm not, it's one of them films where I do think it can lend to a single because you don't need the same kids.
You just need the three witches. That's where the film can't be brought into. As long as you've got them three. Doesn't really matter what else is going on.
Because everything can be interchangeable, but then with the three key elements, that's what I'm interested in. And I love to release this. I love the fact that all three of them at the same time said, yes, this is true. I just love this.
Are you excited about that, Donna? It'll be interesting to see where they go with it. I'm always your favorite part of the focus, because I know I just said that was on your list originally. And it took it off.
Can't believe it took it off. I'm about 20 things on here. I've took off before. Actually, it's a big thing.
I like the same bit with the, like what, the call in the master. It's not the master, but I also like whether on the dance floor, what's doing on Madonna, Danson. Ah, the pointy boobs on the side. I don't think you meant to be in Shilid.
Shilid, Madonna. It's a good idea. But there are thorough virtues. I was just going to say a little thorough virtues in there.
The heart of her leave. Like, that just makes you think, she's recently just been on the warping days. There's Bea there. And it's like, you can't grasp your head around the fact that how all this film actually is.
A thorough virtuous child. Is she Bea there? I thought I was. No, no, no, she was not Bea there.
She was Gama. Sorry. I'm sorry. I said I'm...
Bea there was the... Bea there was Ryan, must be Spades, a big guy, Gachi was Gama. No, no, I thought that was the last from, I thought she was in English. That was Alpha.
That's Samantha. Oh, right. That was Alpha. Then you had Bea there who was Ryan, must be Spades from, Erm, Sons of Anarchy and Thorrovertu, and Scammer.
All right. I didn't even realise that she was in. I wasn't there. Do you want to start?
That's why I was in. She was in very long, but she was in it. I know she's been cast in the new Addams Family TV show. She's got a big game.
Yeah, she's going to be playing Wednesday's College of Children or something like that. Oh, so she's not even Addams? No, she's not. Addams not.
You said it's all about the point of that. A little bit. A little bit. I love Thorrovertu.
She's amazing in the world. Oh, wow. I can't believe I love the fact that Nick Turner and I'm sure I watched it at your house. I was like, yes, because I watched it all the time.
Like when I finished, I would go back and watch again. I'd never thought I'd watch that. Yeah, I was like, I was talking to the sturb. I had made a strange thing.
I was like, I think when you get into a sandwich, I had a little bit of a dark past. I actually like to watch scary things or things that went, you know, to make it or enjoy a switch. Again, I think the whole does its job perfectly, where it's not a happy film at all. And it's very clever.
And a lot of people in that went on to do different things. Like the American guy was in a when a Dexter, we're not going to talk about him. Lawrence. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, we're not going to mention him. The police officer went into 13 ghosts. She played the last, it was in 13 ghosts. It was trying to help the Cyrus.
And again, one of the lads in Coronation Street, I think it's all went on to do different things. And Keira Knightley, of all people to be in that kind of horror element, I would never have put her in it. But like now, I just, I used to be obsessed with this film, like totally obsessed with it, to the point where I would literally watch it, to rewatch it, to rewatch it, and I just absolutely loved it. I was listening, I was going to say to you, we brought up 13 ghosts.
Oh, that's right. I've been watching a lot of interviews with Schichelrich and Matthew Leylard, because they did the circuit recently for the anniversary of Scream. And I was listening, and somebody asked him about 13 ghosts, and I know you really liked it. And he cannot rat his brain around the fact that it's now turned into a cool film.
All right. Can not get his head around it, because he knows what he signed up for, when he went into that film. And he says, I remember, I know, and you exactly what I was going into, and you're saying, well, it was not going to be a great success. I just can't get my head around this 2021, and people are loving it.
So I was like, what was it doing? It is a bit like a bit cool, classic, but I think at its time, I know the end is a bit shit, but other than that, it is, like, a solid horror film, and quite clearly done. But yes, I know we've discussed it before, but I would always recommend 13 ghosts, and anyone who likes horror films who hasn't seen it, it's quite a niche one, but it's also actually a bit of fun as well. So that's what fun should be, should be fun.
And it doesn't take itself to see it. Yes. So sorry. We've probably died from Horvus Focus this year, all into 13 ghosts.
And it's one of the last point as well, that last in Horvus Focus, when I was a teenage boy, I absolutely loved her. The girl who makes it Max, wanted to be able to see was Alison. Alison in that, when she wore the very Victorian dress. Wow.
I was like, that was my teenage dreams there. Oh my god. Right. Are we ready for my next one?
Yes. My next one was brought up on a list that was sent to the Facebook group when you asked what they're top there. They're kind of tall films were for this list. And I instantly saw it and went, yes, this is one of my favorites.
My favorite go to God, it's just such an amazing film. And it's from 1982. So I was Tom Hahn, Genea Davis, Laurie Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, Madonna, it's the League of the Rorn. Yes.
That is up. And there's no crying in baseball. I love this from the actual story itself, from the actors, the costumes. I'm a very costumer, and I love the 50s era.
So this was very much up my street, just aesthetically to look at. Oh, Genea Davis is absolutely stunning on this as well. Absolutely fantastic. So a woman is florist in this.
Well, this film will break your heart in a bit of a million pieces all at once. You fall in love with them girls. Massive. Through the different things and makes it Madonna.
Again, I'm not a big as Madonna fan, but she is absolutely, as Donna Shoresoff and Madonna Glove there. But it's just like, I know not many people like sports films and anything, but that's not what they're filming about. Yeah, it's not. If that's what you did from it, you've not watched it properly.
And it's just a very good feel, good, heartwarming, good wrenching at the time. Like there is one bit in it that rips me to pieces. And it's the, when the, what'd you call them comes in? Oh, what were the called one?
Where you got the notice of them death. What are they actually called? The coroner. Oh.
No one always said. The telegraph. The telegraph. The telegraph.
The telegraph. The telegram. That's it. But the telegram comes in and he can't find the name of it.
And obviously every woman in that room his breath is held and so, and as an audience member so is yours. And then the hand it to Betty spaghetti and I just stop and break. I was breaking and thinking about it now. No, because if anyone who wasn't saying this all but is set like say during wartime when the men all get sent to war.
And so the women actually have an idea that they call women based wars and actually do a leak. They can all take off, but only did one season of it. Did they do more? They did more, but it wasn't as big as what the first season.
Because the first season was basically, it was a way to, it was just a form of entertainment to distract from what was actually going on. And obviously it's all for Air Warbans as well, which obviously held the aid of the war. And yet they did continue on. It just wasn't as round as what the first initial season was because when the boys came home, they took back their sport.
Yeah. But yeah. So yeah. Yeah.
Like I said, as I described, I've seen perfectly. It was written because all them women had men that was men. That was over the over the over the stage fighting. And then no one knew what basically what was happening.
And as they were going through and again, I can't see enough Tom Hanks is brilliant in whatever he does. I would watch it. Except from cloud, I would never go through that straight again. But yes.