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21:25Matt Singer:And by then, there might be a Best of the Best 2. Who knows? Because if this is a hit, more people will watch. I don't approve of the use of the title Best of the Best 2 because it offends me in terms of the conceit of being the best of the best. However, I would happily watch another movie about, if not these characters, I would like to see these actors in more stuff. Because I think they're very talented. I am specifically, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, you are now my fave and I will watch you in anything. So she's very, very funny. This movie, Best of the Best, is available to stream on the Big Red One, Netflix.

22:05Matt Singer:And incidentally, 1989 Best of the Best, Tubi. our old friends to be tv if you want to see eric roberts do they have the whole do they have the whole quadrilogy i can neither unfortunately no best of the best two not streaming anywhere wow it's it's lost media lost media well listen if you got some feedback send us a note to feedback at filmspottingsvu.com feedback at filmspottingsvu.com easy for you let us know if you've watched it and let us know if you've enjoyed it um i mean you know we're doing jumping Jack's over here like we just saw Citizen Kane for the first time. I mean, it's not, we're comparing this to the audience.

22:44Matt Singer:By the standards of film spotting SVU, it's Citizen Kane. By the standards of like, you know, like normal movies, I would give it like, what do you, I would give it like a seven, seven to an eight. Three out of five stars. I mean, I looked around. Oh, it's better than a three out of five. It's a three and a half to a four out of five. It's more than three out of five, but I looked at some of the other reviews online and, you You know, the Guardian gave it three out of five. The Indie Wire, I think, gave it a B+. And that's, you know, I don't like assigning grades to movies, but yeah, it feels about right.

23:15Matt Singer:It's enjoyable. Unlike the Bollywood dance scene, it's not a competition with you, Jordan. No, exactly. Exactly. I should lock it. You're my best friend. Can't do this without you.

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27:16Matt Singer:rexag rexag now people can be listening to the show at any time of the day correct they need to understand that we're recording it kind of late at night after a long weekend. It's 8.35. It's not that late. I got up early today and I was busy. I was running around. Oh, boy. And it's the end of the weekend. I'm a little zonked. I get zonked on the weekend. During the week, I'm much more on top of things. Okay. The Rex Egg is here. I'm Matt Singer. I'm here to recommend a movie based on my admiration for Best of the Best, the new film from Lena Kahn, a filmmaker I now like. Now, I am not an expert on Bollywood cinema, but I know a thing or two.

27:56Matt Singer:I've seen some of the classics. And one of the great ones that is quite similar to Best of the Best, in fact, I would be shocked if it was not a direct influence in this, is a movie from 1997 called Dil Tu Pagal Hai. D-I-L space T-O space P-A-G-A-L space H-A-I. If you want to search for it, Dil Tu Pagal Hai. translates to the heart is crazy. And here's how much it reminded me of Best of the Best or Best of the Best reminded me of that. It is about a dance troupe. It is about a dance troupe with two women who were pals vying for the lead. And there's also an egotistical man at the center who is sort of the team captain.

28:40Matt Singer:And then there's all kinds of, not love triangles, but love squiggles and a lot of set pieces and a lot of great music. It's pretty similar. So that's why I got to say it had to have been something that everybody involved in Best of Best was familiar with. The main character, the captain of the team, the head choreographer is played by Shah Rukh Khan. And if you don't know too many Bollywood actors, if you look up Shah Rukh Khan, you'll say, oh, I know that guy. I mean, he's kind of like he's the Tom Cruise of Bollywood. He's like the face of Bollywood, in my opinion. and the two women are played by Madhuri Dixit and Charisma Kapoor and they both also one kind of has an Anjali vibe and one has a Maya vibe it was directed by a fellow by the name of Yash Chopra who did a lot of the big Bollywood movies over the decades and and this is one of the biggies now why do I like it so much I've seen it more than once it is from 97 but you know 97 in a Bollywood production It was not quite, back then, there was still a bit of a delay in sort of Western styles and sort of lenses, cameras, and also the Western costuming.

29:53Matt Singer:So it looks a little bit like, you know, more like 1990, more 1989, that kind of style. And it's like, to the max, it's like the most 1990 look you'll ever see. It's just like the costumes, the music, it's just remarkable. And also, this was one of the first Bollywood musicals that had location shooting in Europe. And in fact, there is a big dance number at like a Six Flags in Germany. So they're doing like Bollywood style dancing, like with the cool shiny pants. And there's like a big, you know, like a guy like, oh, I'm Mr. Bierstein. Hello. Like, you know, what do they call the characters, the big fluffy characters at a Six Flags?

30:39Or what are they called?

30:40Matt Singer:You know, like the guys in the suits. The costume characters? Yeah. Please don't call them furries. Let's not do that. What is it called when you go to Six Flags and you see Sylvester the Cat in a big fluffy Sylvester the Cat? I mean, I would just call him Sylvester. Okay. Well, I don't know what this German guy is holding a pretzel in a beer stein is called. Hans. let's give him that's good not Horscht let's not let's not pick anything too stereotypical Horscht Horscht is there and he's holding a beer stein and then Shah Rukh Khan is dancing around him it's marvelous it's it's it's a thing of beauty uh what else do I have to say about this movie I have to say uh you know it's about putting on a big show and rehearsing the show and this kind of a Muppets theater vibe to it that much like in best the best there's a million little side characters that have one thing there's like the stage manager who's kind of like Scooter from the Muppets theater there.

31:33Matt Singer:It's very corny. It's a little on the G-rated side, but it's great. It's a little catchy. Earlier today, I checked Spotify and the theme song has 73 million streams. That's not so bad for a movie that's now 19 years. Wait, 97. That's 30 years old. Almost 30. Oy vey. All right. So it's an old movie, but it's a classic. So that's my recommendation. if you're listening and you're like you know i always wanted to like get on the like what's the basic bollywood movie this isn't the most famous but if you like dance troupe stories if you like the story of best the best you're going to like this movie because it's very very very similar okay and it is streaming on netflix or vod i see oh that's right yeah yeah yeah i wanted him i was stunned it's on the big red one maybe as a tie-in to best the best maybe lena con netflix has a has a fair amount of Bollywood films.

32:31It's one of the few international cinemas that they do have, at least in America. Maybe if you subscribe to Netflix in other countries, they have more of the, that country's domestic product available exclusively there. But here in America, yeah, they have a fair number of Bollywood movies. So there you go, yes. This one is on there. I see it runs a cool two hours and 59 minutes, which, you know, Bollywood movies are generally pretty long. But there you go. I haven't seen this one, but I added it to my list right now. Just did it. So I'm going to check it out. Cool. All right. My turn. Go for it.

33:10Okay. So I decided rather than strictly Bollywood dancing, I would go with just a broader dance theme because I realized this movie and doing a recommendation tied to this movie gave me an opportunity to recommend One of my all-time favorite movies that is very obscure, that very few people have ever seen. I think when I was looking on Letterboxd at it after I rewatched it this week. Hold on. I'm going to, in real time, we're going to do this because I don't, I want to be accurate here. Hold on. I'm loading up the page. I'm trying to guess. Slowly. It's from 2010. Okay. So it has one fan. A fan on Letterboxd is someone who puts it in their four favorites.

33:57That's how they – if you ever see on a film's page by the ratings, if it says, you know, 20 ,000 fans, 600 fans, that's how many people on the site have it in their four favorites. This movie has one fan, one person has put it in their favorites. And it's the mother of the screenwriter. No. Oh, it might be, I suppose. We don't know. but it is a movie that I love and I revisited. And if you need something shorter than a Bollywood film, it is only 46 minutes long. So it has that going for it as well. 2010. 2010. Sam, what could it be? It is an adaptation of a ballet by the great Jerome Robbins, a ballet that was first mounted in 1958.

34:47A ballet in sneakers, they called it. It's called New York Export Opus Jazz. And this film is streaming for free with ads on Plex. It's also available right now on Fandor and Fawesome, a streaming service that is very real, as real as Bazooka, Fawesome. And basically the ballet conceived by Jerome Robbins, famous, you know, choreographer, was a ballet in sneakers and kind of like capturing the modern flavor of youth at the time in 1958 with ballet dancers wearing like modern clothes and wearing sneakers instead of toe shoes. And the ballet was revived in 2005 at New York City Ballet. And two of the soloists in the ballet, Ellen Barr and Sean Sozzi, they thought because of the modern clothes and like basically doing it in 2005, wearing 2005 clothing and costumes.

35:57I'm just going to read a quote that I found from a page about the movie on PBS, which is where this ultimately did play after film festivals. This is a quote from Sean Swozy. We thought the ballet seemed a bit dated in its 1950s trappings, but the themes that came out in the dancing, the energy and raw emotion of urban youth, were just as relevant today as they were then. We decided to put our dancers in regular clothes, not costumes. It makes the dance even more accessible. Ballet doesn't have to be a mysterious art form. It's our most natural, visceral expression. So what they did, kind of a la the West Side Story movie, is they took dancers from the New York City Ballet and they staged the ballet in real New York City locations.

36:46McCarran Pool, Coney Island, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, and a very beautiful sequence on the High Line before it was renovated. The High Line has now become this like – it's like a former like elevated train platform that has become kind of this walkway.

37:06Matt Singer:It was used for industry to like move textile goods and food around and it went into the first – Passed along the meatpacking district. Meatpacking and also the first – It's on the west side. The early first Nabisco plant where they invented the Oreos. The world's first Oreo cookies were shipped out of – on that train track. How do you like that? So now it has been like kind of renovated and restored into like a walkway for a pedestrian. It's a bougie place for tourists now, but it's beautiful. It's beautiful. So before it was renovated, it was kind of this like abandoned space in the city with weeds.

37:40And there's a duet at magic hour sunset in this space is absolutely magnificent. So it's just it is just a ballet. It doesn't have a story necessarily. There are some brief moments without dancing where you kind of get a feel of modern life in New York City, the characters and who they might be playing. But really, it's just a high energy, jazzy, bright, colorful because of the costumes. Ballet with great choreography. It's horny as hell at times. There's a lot of sultry dancing, if I can be. And this was on PBS. Oh, my God. It's got to be one of the hornier things that has aired on PBS in the 21st century.

38:24Well, I don't know.

38:25Matt Singer:Some of those Yo-Yo Ma specials. Yo-Yo Ma. Well, you'll be saying the same thing when you're watching these ballet dancers. And it's a beautifully shot as well. It was shot by Henry Joost, the co-director of Catfish, and Jodie Lee Lipes, who's a really good cinematographer who has done nonfiction films, but also done fiction films. and it's just a beautiful movie and I find it incredibly, I don't know, weirdly like moving on top of everything else. Something about - They're moving around. They're moving around and you're moved. Something about using dance in the real world always gets me and the youth and the energy that comes through and the idea of dance as this expression of youthful energy and of excitement and sensuality.

39:16this would be a movie that I would if someone ever made the mistake of giving me a movie theater or letting me program like a film festival of obscure titles that I love this would be in there I really recommend it again only 45 minutes I love that too

39:33Matt Singer:this is the very artistic side of Matt Singer this is great next week we'll get back to Jimcotta jokes but for now this is I contain multitudes what can I say I know what this movie, now I haven't seen it. You've sold me and it's also 45 minutes. So you sold me twice. But this reminds me of something that I just checked, came out the following year. Okay. Called Girl Walk All Day. Do you remember Girl Walk All Day? I thought about that one as well. That was another title. That one was not available when I was trying to find where - It is available. It is available. Where can we go watch it? It's on Vimeo.

40:06Matt Singer:Oh, it's on Vimeo. Because that was never available commercially. That was done underground because it has music rights that they don't have the music to so they just um the producers just put it online originally it was in chapters so like every week they put up a new chapter and then they just cut the whole thing together uh girl walk all day is it's no story just people kind of flopping around very similar conceit it's a dancing a woman dancing through new york city yes so it is a very similar popular songs of the day so like a lot of i don't know jay-z or whomever it was no it's girl talk out that's the music it's the yes but girl talk was a dj i see i take cuts from songs he didn't have the rights to or they i don't know who girl talk is it's a band or it's a person i don't know jethro tall is it a person or a band pink floyd which one's pink i don't know well girl walk all day is only 77 minutes so you could have yourself a double feature as well so there you go so but i just want to jump in briefly just because i tried to look this up on letterboxd myself.

41:10And I just want to be clear, just so people are listening here, when you search for it, type in NY space export colon opus jazz. You don't write in New York, but it is New York. But yeah, I'm glad you mentioned Jodie Leipzig too. Sorry to hijack anything, but I looked, you know, great cinematographer, Manchester by the Sea, many other films, but also directed one of my favorite dance related documentaries, Ballet 422. Ballet 422. Yep. Another one. The 422nd original ballet for New York Ballet. Justin Peck, of course, famous young. Yes, very famous choreographer. Yes.

41:45Matt Singer:Yeah, great stuff. That's another one you could throw in there as well. You know what, Sam? Next time you come to New York, let's all three of us go to the ballet. We're going to the ballet. We're going to the ballet. It's great. My wife loves ballet, so I've seen some ballets. What can I say? I've got to say, I got more into opera recently in the last five years. I've always loved going to the symphony, you know, seeing Western classical music, but I've maybe went to the ballet. It does not count as Western classical music. Jordan. I don't care how many times you say it. I know, but I don't think I've actually ever been to the, maybe when I was a kid, I'm sure my parents took me.

42:21Matt Singer:Well, maybe we should go to the ballet. I've never been to the New York city ballet as an adult. Because whenever I do, whenever I'm like, I'm about to go, I'll say, let's go to the opera instead. It's right next to the New York city ballet in the opera house. They're both in Lincoln Center. This is true. And I'm like, if I'm going to go big, I'm going to go big. So I'm going to go to the ballet. Well, maybe we'll go to the ballet sometime. This is great. All right. Should we get to our listener request now? Should I read the email for you and then you can go first? Yeah, we have a great email.

42:47Here we go. All right. I'm going to read it. It says, greetings, Matt and Jordan. If I had to pick one niche genre that always seems to work for me, it's bottle movies. Any film that places its writing center stage.

43:00Matt Singer:Wait, wait, wait. Wait, let me interrupt with the joke. Because I even said I was going to say the joke. It's bottle, say it again. It's bottle movies. It's bottle movies. Oh, so like Lost Weekend, Days of Wine and Roses, Leaving Las Vegas, movies like that. Any film that places its writing center stage in a single setting with a sparse cast is right up my alley. Obviously, I've seen 12 Angry Men and Rear Window, but I've also seen lesser known titles like The Sunset Limited and this year's Blue Film. I haven't seen that one. Can you give me some deep cuts? I'll give you plenty of streamers to choose from.

43:38I have Netflix, HBO Max, Prime, Criterion, Canopy, Hulu, Disney Plus, and ESPN Plus in case there's a bottle sports documentary I haven't heard of. Thanks, guys. Steven. And what a fun request for a movie here. A bottle film, a bottle movie. One that doesn't involve alcoholism. Although I suppose it could be a bottle film that does include alcoholism as a theme if it was all set in one bar. Then it would be a double bottle. Oh, you know, there are some bottle movies set in the bar. A double bottle movie. That's a real, that's a special, that's a separate genre.

44:09Matt Singer:Yeah, I can think of a good one kind of recently. It was called like Bloody Nose, Broken, Empty Pockets, Bloody Nose. What was that movie called? Oh, was that the Ross Brothers? It was the Ross Brothers. I love that movie. let's look up the name and get it right but yes i do know that was a good movie that is a double bottle yeah hold on let's see if we can find it bloody nose empty pockets yes there you go bloody nose empty pockets from 2020 a portrait of a bar basically yeah and that and that is streaming on criterion so there you go there's a bonus recommendation they done the rare double bottle movie.

44:47But Jordan, what do you have for Stephen?

44:50Matt Singer:What's funny, when I read Stephen's note, I immediately thought of something and then I said, wait, I think I recommended that already. And I did. I had already recommended Death Trap earlier on SVU when we did the movie with Alice and Janney called, don't say, what was that movie called? Miss You, Love You? Miss You, Love You, and that was clearly based on a play, so we did recommendation based on a play. So Death Trap is not the one I'm going for, so I'm thinking about one place, one place, and then I thought of a movie that I love, that I bet you a lot of our listeners love to. This is a movie that's set all in one place, but it's also set in 17 ,576 places.

45:39Matt Singer:What? Mathematically speaking. Huh? mathematically speaking, I am thinking about it. I'm going to let you guys guess it. I think Sam's already got it. He's smiling. A 1997 independent movie. Is it a horror film? There is horror to it. Yes, it is a horror film. It's also a science fiction film. Is it a Canadian horror film? It's a Canadian horror film from 1997. Does it happen to be directed by one Vincenzo Natale? It is. You've got the film. Okay, I think I know it. The movie is called Cube. Cube. Cube is a cool movie. Cube came out around the same time Pi came out. What a time for weirdo underground math movies.

46:32Matt Singer:And I remember being somewhere and being like, Cube and Pi, they're so different, but they're so great. and getting all into comparing your contrasting cube and pie. Pie, of course, is made by Darren Aronofsky and is great in its own way. But cube is kind of a metaphorical play, a cineplay, if you will. If you've read the Harlan Ellison short story for I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream, it's kind of got that kind of vibe. Basically, half a dozen people wake up In a cube. Hey, man, aren't we all in some way waking up in a cube? I sometimes feel like I'm in a cube. They wake up in a cube, and they go, what the hell's going on?

47:20Matt Singer:And you can go up, you can go down, you can go four directions. So they go in one room, and they're safe, but they go in the other room, and a laser slices them in half. It's kind of like Saw. There's all these traps trying to kill them. They have to figure out why they're in the cube. They have to figure out why they're placed together in the cube. Each of them has a strength. Each of them has a weakness. Somebody's clearly tinkering with them. And then the cube keeps moving. Hence, there's 17 ,500 and blah, blah, blah combinations. It's like a Rubik's cube that moves. It's a sci-fi allegory film, but it sounds like annoying, but it really works.

47:58Matt Singer:It's tight. It's a tight cube. You're not getting out of here. Yes, we are. There is no way out of here. We need to get around the traps. They're identified by prime numbers. Figure it out. I can't. I'm not dying in a rat maze. No more talking. No more guessing. You got to save yourself from yourselves. I didn't pick this out because of it, but the lead is a woman by the name of Nicole DeBoer, who is probably best known as Esri Dax from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. All right. Sorry. Play the sound effect, please. She's in cube. It's kind of like this actress who's very, she's a good actress. And I happen to have met this woman.

48:40Matt Singer:She's very nice. These are like the two things she's known for. Star Trek D Space Nine, Esri Dax. She was on one season of D Space Nine, the seventh season, and she's in Cube. There was a sequel to Cube, Cube 2 Hypercube. And then there was a prequel to Cube. What was the prequel? Was it Zero? Cube Zero? That's right. You've seen them all too. I haven't seen, I have not seen the prequel. I saw all three. You certainly don't need to see the prequel. And quite frankly, I don't know that you need to see Hypercube, but you should see Cube. Cube is a great movie. It was low budget movie and, and it knocked it out of the park.

49:18Matt Singer:Vincenzo Natale later went on. He made the film Splice. He's made a number of other feature films that I haven't seen. Canadian films, best known for TV, Hannibal, Westworld, Orphan Black, The Last of Us. He's got the new Marvel thing coming out soon called Vision Quest. Cube is not that much of a deep cut to a certain type of person. I mean, Matt Singer was able to figure it out just from my clues. So if you're kind of a big dork, you already know about Cube. I mean that as a positive. If you're kind of a big dork, you already know about Cube. But if you haven't seen Cube, get on Cube. It's pretty great.

49:55Matt Singer:It's really engrossing. and I think you'll like it. So it's on Tubi, it's on Plex, it's on Hoopla, which is free with your library card, and on Canopy, which is also free with your library card depending on where you live. You like Cube, right? Yeah, it's all right. When you watch it on Tubi, you got to call it Cubi. There you go. There you go. Now we're talking. Okay. Okay, sis, give me the scoop. What have you been up to? Living my best life. I've been traveling, working, even hiking more, and thanks to T-Mobile, I'm connected for all of it. Really? I need details. I mean, with America's best network, I can pretty much go anywhere.

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53:25But we're not done yet. We need your help. Together, let's bring every warrior home. Join our fight to end childhood cancer at HyundaiWarriors.com. now for my recommendation for steven on a recent episode of film spotting svu listeners may remember that i mentioned i think it was on our mayday episode i mentioned that i had contemplated recommending a ryan reynolds movie you know i wanted to recommend something i liked by ryan reynolds that proved he could act and not just be a smug you know kind of ryan reynolds type character but i held off because i knew it would be a good fit for a future listener recommendation segment and that time is now and i know this movie and jordan can you guess what what movie

54:14Matt Singer:i'm recommending a bottle movie starring ryan reynolds i was i was at the world premiere of this in austin texas the movie is called buried you are correct it is and it's about ryan reynolds laying on his back for 92 minutes. That's right. He's the only person, I believe, who appears on screen in this movie. This is a real little bottle he's trapped in here for this whole movie. You do hear voices of other characters. He talks to people on the phone. His character has been buried alive. He's an American. He's kidnapped while he's working. I think he's like a contractor in Iraq or something like that.

54:50He's kidnapped. He wakes up inside a coffin. He gets a call from his kidnapper saying, If you can't find a ransom, you can't pay us the money we want, you're going to be left to die. I just have a few questions for you, Mr. Conrad. You've got to be kidding me. It's important that I get this information. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How do you know my name? What's going on right now? So, in other words, if you are claustrophobic, if the thought of being trapped in a tiny enclosed space upsets you, if that's especially Steven if that is you Steven this is not the bottle movie for you because that's what the whole movie is the entire movie basically takes place in this tiny little box it does not do the typical thing for this kind of thriller where you would break up the main story with flashbacks to kind of kind of alleviate the tension and let the viewer breathe and feel a little less stressed out This is not the way that Buried does it.

55:55It is all stressful as hell.

55:57Matt Singer:I remember he's like on hold a lot. He's like on hold trying to get through on the phone. And it's like a battery is slowly dying on the phone. I hate calling customer service. It's the worst when you got to call Verizon or God forbid United Healthcare or something. It's just the worst. And you're getting put through and you try to be polite. And it's that movie for it's that for 92 minutes. You want to you want to go nuts. It is a little bit of an endurance experience. You are trapped inside this box with Ryan Reynolds. And depending on how much you like Ryan Reynolds, that could be extremely an intense experience.

56:33Matt Singer:Well, he's very handsome. He is handsome. So I'm making a joke about Ryan Reynolds, but I think this is a movie where he's not just doing the shtick. He's not Deadpool. He's not playing that character. and he does a good job of keeping you present in the film with him, present and trapped in that box. You really get caught up in his plight in this story. And the director, Rodrigo Cortez, does a really good job in a movie that could be visually very boring because, again, it's only this box. It's only this guy inside this casket, basically, this coffin. And so how are you going to sustain that for 90 minutes?

57:13How are you going to make that visually interesting for 90 minutes? And Rodrigo Cortese does it. He finds different ways, different angles that it conveys the desperation of the situation. But it doesn't get too static or too visually repetitive. It works. It is a good, compelling bottle movie with a heck of an ending. I'm not going to spoil it, but I think you get to the end of this movie and it really packs a wallop. So there you go. That is my pick for a obscure bottle movie. It wasn't on one of the streaming service he mentioned, but it's available for free on Tubi. You can also watch it on Plex or Canopy.

57:58So there's places to watch it without spending any money or signing up for another service. So that's my pick buried. and then just to go through all the picks we had on our -

58:09Matt Singer:That one's going to suck though on Tubi because like it's going to, that one you don't want broken up with commercials. Well, maybe it'll be a nice little break. You're so stressed out and all of a sudden - You can't take it. You're like, I need a break. All right. And then they're selling you, you know, how to fix plaque psoriasis or whatever it is. I don't know. I would say it's on Canopy. You would recommend the ad-free experience. Yeah, for this one, because it's a tension and release type of movie. But, you know, do what feels right for you. Okay. So to recap, Jordan, your, was it Dill Toe?

58:42Can you tell me the name of your Bollywood film? I think I'm pronouncing it. Dill Toe Pagahai? Dill Toe Pagahai is what I believe it's pronounced. That one's on Netflix. Netflix and VOD. Yeah. Mine was New York Export Opus Jazz on Plex, Fandor, and the very real streaming service Fawcum. And we also wanted to throw in a little mention of some of those other movies, those other dance movies we like. Girl Walk All Day on Vimeo, Ballet 422 on Netflix and VOD. And then we did recommend Buried on Tubi, Plex, and Canopy as our bottle, my bottle movie for Steven and Jordan's bottle movie for Steven was Cube.

59:20Not a very, it's not really bottle shape, it's cube shaped, but nevertheless, it's available on Tubi, Plex, Hoopla, and Canopy. And if you would like us to recommend a movie or movies for you. You can send us a note, feedback at filmspottingsvu.com. Tell us what sort of movie you're looking for, like an obscure bottle movie. Tell us what streaming services you use and your request may be featured on an upcoming episode. And in the meantime, if you want a running list of all the movies we've recommended, not just on this episode, but every episode of Film Spotting SVU, go to Letterboxd and look for the list that is called Now Streaming on Bazooka, and you will find a list that contains every movie that we have discussed on the show to date.

1:00:12It's now over 100 recommended titles. Woo! I'm going to just throw in here, we haven't really talked about this. This is sort of an on-air production meeting a little bit, but especially as we head into Scare-tober, which I think you dubbed it, Matt, we might, if people are looking for very specific films or recommendations. Halloween recommendations? Yes. Very specific genre or...

1:00:37Matt Singer:What's your favorite slasher? What's your favorite horror comedy? Sure, right. I want a movie about... Right, a vampire. I want a movie about a Hollywood producer who destroys people's lives. I don't know. Whatever it might be. Something scary, though. We want Halloween-related recommendations. Sure. Send them on. Just don't make me watch all of the Friday the 13th because I haven't seen them all.

1:01:25Matt Singer:Listeners, it's time. Sam Van Halgren, he's lacing up his boots. He's putting on his helmet. It's game time. There's really no need to do either of those things, but he's doing them anyway. I'm going to lace up my dance shoes because this is, of course, a dance-related game. Everybody dance now. You got served? I hope there'll be a you got served question in here. Step up to the streets. One of the greatest movie titles of all time. The subject for this game seemed obvious to me. I really struggled coming up with a clever name. It's just called Let's Dance. And that's all it is. I think this might be the simplest as far as understanding what we're doing here with this game, which is very, very, very easy.

1:02:11I am going to read, read, not sing, lyrics to a song that is used during a well-known movie dance scene. And you tell me the movie. That's it. Wow. Okay. Okay, so there are seven songs. This is great. Seven movies. Buzzers are activated. Okay.

1:02:31Matt Singer:Extra credit if we do the dance moves. Oh, sure. Yeah. I mean, this is an audio only podcast, but sure. I will give extra credit if I can. He'll dance and I'll describe what he's doing for the listeners. There we go. All right. Are we ready? Buzzer's activated. Are you ready? You want to test him out? So you are going to read the lyrics of a song that plays during a famous dance number in a famous dance movie. We just have to name the movie? That's right. Just the movie. Got it. Test those buzzers. Let me hear them. Okay. Number one.

1:03:06Now, I've had the time of my life.

1:03:10Matt Singer:That was a tie. That was a tie. I heard, Matt. I don't know. I'm pretty sure I was first. And the film is the immortal Dirty Dancing. That's right. With Pat Swayze, Jim Gray, of course. I've had a time great karaoke song as well, let me tell you. Nobody puts Matt Singer in the corner. In parentheses, I've had the time of my life. Jennifer Warren's Bill Medley. 1-0, Matt Singer. Number two. Are you ready? I'm ready. Sorry, I was getting swept away by the music. Jordan just lifted you up. How did he do that? How did he? It was beautiful. We're at a summer. We're at the Borscht and the Catskills.

1:03:52The Anglo colony, yeah. Number two. I've been working so hard. I'm punching my card. Oh, what movie? What movie? 80 hours for what? Oh, tell me what I got. Well, I got this feeling. The time's just holding me down. Yes? Is this Flashdance? No, it is not. Oh, shit. I'll hit the ceiling or else I'll tear up this town. Tonight, I gotta cut.

1:04:31Matt Singer:Oh, jeez. Can I buzz it again? It's footloose. Or else I'll tear up this town. Come on. I need the melodies. I'm not a poet. I have just discovered that I need the melodies. I know. I'm going, what is it? It's so obvious. I can't hear the music. I'm guessing there's a percentage of our listeners. It's not always the same percentage or the same people making up the percentage but are screaming. Yes. Well, one of them is Kenny Loggins, I'm sure. We love you, Kenny. Kenny, come on the show. We love you. Thanks for listening. Take us to the danger zone. Yes, that was. Nobody was dancing during danger zone.

1:05:14Take us to the house on Pooh Corner. So Footloose played twice in the film during the opening credits. Remember how the movie opens? I have not seen Footloose in many, many years. No, no. The opening scene over the opening credits are just shots of different feet dancing. Cowboy boots, ballet shoes, sneakers. Getting loose. It's very nice. Very cool. And then of course, during the final cathartic dance. Shouldn't it be feet loose? It's not one foot. It's not one foot. It's two feet. And now I got a cut loose. Feet loose. Jesus. Can we petition to change that? Is it too late? Well, that was the sequel that never happened was Feet Loose.

1:05:55Feet loose.

1:05:56Matt Singer:Feet loose. That's a great sequel. That would have been great. Wait, Sam, come on. You know a lot about of these would be a two. It's Feetloose. He's the third one. He's in a barn, right? Am I going crazy? Isn't he in a barn in the beginning? Well, maybe the opening scene, but I'm talking about the credit sequence. Opening credit sequence is just Feet. I remember him being in a barn. That's all I remember. They're like in Iowa. It's very good. I think you guys will know this. Some of these, the lyrics, like you don't need you don't need the melody because some of the lyrics are so good they just okay alright so number three it's tied it was a teenage wedding yes Pulp Fiction yes it was a teenage wedding and the old folks wish them well you see it's so good it's Chuck Berry's name of the song Jordan C 'est la Vise the old folks It goes to show You Never Can Tell.

1:06:59Is that what it's called? You Never Can Tell. Name of the restaurant where the twist contest? Oh, yeah. This is no good because Jordan is very good with music. He's very musically inclined. I thought maybe this would be your edge here. No, every time we do something with music, with scores, with musical numbers. All right. We had the film spotting family had trivia spotting. The final, like the bonus round was all, was all the names of, of, of songs that, that shared a title with a movie. Jordan won that. Yeah, I did. I did do quite well. It's frankly infuriating.

1:07:35Matt Singer:They had, they named the title of the film and you had to name the artist who recorded it. So it was like Dazed and Confused, Led Zeppelin, Everybody Wants Some, Van Halen. Oh, interest. It's, you know, When a Man Loves a Woman, Michael Bolton. Percy Sledge. Percy Sledge. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of went on a, I got in the zone on that. But did people protest? Because, I mean, we're asking about musicians and movies all of a sudden. but they all told me to shut up. Yeah, well, but I will say, Matt was the first one to get one wrong, but it wasn't really his fault. He got a really tough one. A trick question.

1:08:06It was a bit of a trick question.

1:08:07Matt Singer:The question was, I would have gotten it wrong too because it was... Drive me crazy. Drive me crazy. And he said, fine young cannibals. Yes. And I would have too, but it's actually Britney Spears. What? Because it was crazy parentheses drive me crazy. We don't need to litigate this again. No, we don't. It's fine. I just want to know that I'm already upset about this. But it's only 2-1. It's only 2-1. I'm already upset. I'm very upset. The name of the place where they get the milkshakes is like Jackrabbit Slim. Snazzy Dan's. There you go, Matt. See, it doesn't involve the music and I know the answer.

1:08:47All right, 2-1. It's 2-1. Number four. All right. This is going to be tough. I think we're going to have to wait until the chorus, but I'll see. Here in your arms I found my paradise, my only chance for happiness. And if I lose you - Oh, slow down, slow down, slow down. What movie is that from? Hold on. Oh, oh. Yes. Saturday Night Fever. Yes. What's the song? What is the song?

1:09:19Matt Singer:Who could understand what Barry Gibb is saying? I never knew. Andy Gibb, whatever. Oh, excellent. Well done. Look at this. You were just complaining. You didn't know this song. It's my favorite game. More than a woman to me. That's it. Oh, there we go. There you go. What a movie. So this will be an interesting bit of trivia. Maybe. Maybe you know this. This is Travolta again. Second clue in a row here with Karen Lingourney. and Saturday Night Fever. It's heard, well, at least twice in the film. The first time during their rehearsal, in the rehearsal space. But who sings that version? It's not the Bee Gees.

1:09:55I got it. I got it. Tavares.

1:09:57Matt Singer:He knows it too. Tavares. I know Saturday Night Fever is a movie I know very well. It's very good. It's a wonderful, disturbing, powerful, upsetting movie. Oh, so disturbing. Thank you for adding disturbing, because it is very much that too. So the Bee Gees did write the song, but Tavares did release the single first before the film came out. And frankly, their version is as good. It's very good. They're both good. Both are very good. I'm not, yeah, yeah. Yeah, very good. Okay, we're tied. It's 2-2. We're on to number five. We got three more. Oh my God, this is exciting. This is only because this is a more, I'll just say, a more contemporary film.

1:10:33It's not new. I don't think I would get this, but let's just see how this goes. Okay, because I think you'll know the song. I wonder if you'll know the movie. What I Want. you've got and it might be hard to handle but like a flame that burns the candle oh oh the candle feeds the flame yeah yeah what I've got full stock of thoughts and dreams that scatter and you pull them all together I knew it and then you kept talking and I lost go back to the beginning what I want you've got Why not? And it might be hard to handle. But like a flame that burns the candle. Okay, stop right there. Stop right there.

1:11:21What I want, you've got. Yeah, yeah. Learn how to feel the same. I don't know what movie that's from. I know the song now, but I don't. This is what I was worried about. What movie is this from? What movie is this from?

1:11:33Matt Singer:Is this from a musical? Keep singing, and then I'll tell you what it's from. Oh, is it? Wait, wait, wait. Wait. It might be wrong. but is it 500 days of summer? Yay! I'm clapping now. I'm the one clapping for you, Matt. Here we go. It's Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He's just had his night. It was Hall and Oates. It's Hall and Oates. You make my dreams come true. It took a minute to think of what movie that was in. Oh, that's the song. You've got, it might be hard to handle. You can sing, Matt. You should sing it because I can't sing. That one's a little high. If we're going to sing. You just sang Bee Gees.

1:12:04Come on. If we're going to sing, well, that's a falsetto. If we're going to sing Hall and Oates, it should be Sarah's Smile. That's more in my vocal. Oh, there you go. In my vocal wheelhouse. That's early 70s. Yeah. That's my karaoke song for Hall of News. Oh, that's a great song. That's a good one. That's a good one. Wait, we're three, two. Oh, man. Right, right, right? Yeah, that's fine. I think that's right. We have two left. Okay, so this one, here we go. In this case, this is, I think, the only case which comes from an actual musical. Okay. Okay. I kind of cheated.

1:12:37Matt Singer:The hills are alive with... I'm singing in... The rain. Okay, here we go. Ready. It's so dreamy. Oh, fantasy, free me. So you can't see me. No, not at all. In another dimension... Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This one is not ringing a bell, Jordan, so you have... With voyeuristic intention. Well secluded, I see all. With a bit of a mind flip, you're into a time slip. Oh, oh. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, that was a tie. That was a tie. I know what it is. Jordan, go ahead. Go ahead, Jordan.

1:13:25That's the time warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yes, it's Magenta and Riff Raff and Company doing the time warp. I like that his buzzer sounds a lot like his just a man complaining. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

1:13:39Matt Singer:I gotta tell you something about me first of all this is funny for one is that as you know I just picked my wife up from the bus she just saw Rocky Horror with her friends on Broadway today how was it? she loved it she had a great time and we were listening to the music we listened to the Frankenstein house song in the car there's a light in the Frankenstein place here's what's funny about me I'm gonna both pat myself on the back and criticize myself simultaneously. I can be a little bit of a savant with music, music trivia, with naming that tune when I hear something. Some of my favorite songs of all time that I've listened to 800 ,000.

1:14:20Matt Singer:I don't know the lyrics. Yes, I'm the same way. I'm the exact same way. I don't know the lyrics to Hey Jude. I don't know the lyrics to the most basic songs. I'm weird about it, which in a way is helpful because I listen to a lot of quote-unquote world music. so when I listen to music in another language Jordan Fish is not world music I keep telling you this it's not classical it's not world so if I listen to music in another language or if I listen to their singing in German if it's an opera it's the same to me but some obviously some Bob Dylan songs I know and Jokey songs they might be giant songs I know because they're funny but you know so this is now I've now exposed myself so anyhow But I guess you're the same way, Sam.

1:15:05Matt Singer:I'm the exact same way. I was just thinking about this today because we were listening to R.E.M.'s Monster while I was making dinner. And my wife was singing all the lyrics. And I'm like, why don't I know any of the lyrics except for the chorus? I've listened to this album a hundred times. I know. I can hum it. I can hum it. My crush with the eyeliner. I don't know anything else that he says other than my crush with the eyeliner. Exactly. All right. Okay. We got a tie game. This is it. Going to the final round. I love this. Final question. Now it's exciting. Here we go. Number seven. I woke up this morning with the sundown shining in.

1:15:41I found my mind in a brown paper bag within. I tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high. Oh, wow. The Big Lebowski. It's Big Lebowski. It's the name of the song?

1:16:00Matt Singer:it's um i just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in by the a very obscure group they're called like they're not the 13th floor elevators they're they're called um the psychic kick they're called something wacky what's the name of the group it was and and it's kenny rogers it's kenny rogers is in the group but before he was first edition first edition first edition First edition, that's right. What a wacky, out there, crazy kind of name. The first edition. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what a strange name. Oh yeah, oh, great comeback. I mean, with the old man buzzer, came in there, stole a Rocky Horror.

1:16:40If I had put up a stink about the old man buzzer, let the record show I would have won.

1:16:45Matt Singer:You know what? Should we call this one a tie? Well, you can't have a tie because it will determine the next host, and that's the thing you win. That's why he doesn't want to win. He doesn't want to do the game next week. Do you want to do a quick tiebreaker? You won! There's no tie to break! All right, all right. All right. Well done. Well done. Good game. That was fun. Next week, I will come up with the game. And did we tell the listeners what we're doing next week? I'm kind of excited about this. Oh, this should be good. Well, this is intriguing. There's another movie coming to Netflix. Yep.

1:17:19Matt Singer:Ripped from the headlines. Of the 90s, yes. Of the 90s. called the Unabomber. And the movie is, I think, just called Unabomber. And it's like, it's Zero Dark Thirty with the Unabomber. It's like, that's the vibe I got from the trailer. Who's in this movie? Russell Crowe is in this? Not as the Unabomber, even though he maybe looks more like the Unabomber. Jacob Tremblay is the Unabomber. Yeah, and now he's all grown up, but he's blowing up buildings and stuff. It looks potentially decent. I don't know. I mean, it's not coming out in theaters. Let's hope so. It looks okay. So we're going to watch Unabomber for next week.

1:17:55Matt Singer:And maybe we'll dress up for that. We'll all grow a beard. And I don't know. I'm not reading your manifesto, Jordan. I don't care what you say. All right. Let's wrap things up here with some of the new films on streaming, shall we? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Would you like me to begin? Sure, because I don't have the page open. Okay. I'll start. Now I do. Yeah, you start. I'm going to start with some theatrical releases available to rent or buy this week. First up, Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man. Jordan, did you see the latest Eli Roth film? I haven't seen it. I have not seen it either, but it sounds chilling.

1:18:36Matt Singer:Get it? It did not get the world's greatest reviews, but maybe it's not that bad, but I haven't seen it. We also have Idiots, the new film from writer-director Macon Blair. who's also an actor. That's what I always think of him as an actor in some very good independent films that I saw in film festivals around the same time as I was watching New York export Opus Jazz. He also directed the recent Toxic Avenger reboot, which I did see and I enjoyed. So that's his new film, Idiots. There's also the... Which I also didn't see, but I wanted to see. I saw the trailer and it looked funny. O'Shea Jackson Jr.

1:19:18Matt Singer:is in it. Yes. Peter Dinklage is in it. And what's her name from Mad Men? The daughter from Mad Men is in it. Speaking of funny looking, I didn't see this one either, but it is a comedy. Hopefully it's good. It's Super Troopers 3. They have made three Super Troopers films now. Incredible. Oh, and there's also the adaptation of the classic kids book, The Magic Faraway Tree, with supporting appearances by Andrew Garfield, Rebecca Ferguson, Claire Foy, and Judy Dench. Magic Far Away Tree. All those titles available for premium rental on Tuesday, September, is it 22nd? Must be the 22nd. Today is the 20th.

1:20:06So 22nd. I gotta say, quite frankly,

1:20:08Matt Singer:every single one of them, wait a few more weeks and see it for three bucks. Wow. Come on. Harsh words. Harsh words. All right. Let's talk about some new theatrical releases that you can now watch on streaming without paying a premium or even a non-premium rental price. My favorite. We have Tuner with Leo Woodle as piano tuner turned safecracker and Dustin Hoffman as his mentor. That's going to be on Paramount Plus this week. Did you say he was great? Did you say great? Oh, I love Tuner. It's really good. What is so good about it? Tell me about it. I haven't seen it. Sam, have you seen Tuner? I haven't.

1:20:44I heard great things and I just was so frustrated with the rollout. I like the fish.

1:20:49Matt Singer:I don't know if I've seen the movie. Well, it was one of these, I forget which distribution company put it out. It was not one of the primetime players. You're right. It didn't get a normal rollout, but it is a heist picture and the gimmick is this. Our main character has some sort of hearing disability. he has extremely sensitive ears. So what that means is he has to wear not only noise-canceling headphones, but earplugs in his ear canals and noise-canceling headphones in life, or else he'll be in pain. So what can he do with this gift is he's actually the world's greatest piano tuner, which is interesting.

1:21:35Matt Singer:So he works for his, it's kind of his uncle, but they're not really related, but his uncle and his Dustin Hoffman is the old, kvetchy, Max Bialystok-esque piano tuner, and he's the young kid who's his protege. But that's just the beginning. In addition to being the world's greatest piano tuner, because of his sensitive hearing, he can crack a safe. Because think about it, he can hear every click. So he gets ensnared in a safe-cracking scheme, and he tries to get out, and he gets one step in worse and blah, blah, blah. And it really is a very clever script. But more importantly, the way it's edited together is really sharp.

1:22:18Matt Singer:A lot of great montage sequences. It's a really, really good low-ish budget, you know, mid-budget film. This is one of my favorite movies of the year as a screenplay, for sure. I just think the script is phenomenal. And the guy who made it, he also had something else this year. He's also a documentary filmmaker. He did this movie about AI that came out this year called The AI Doc. The AI Doc. Yeah, which, you know, let's focus on Tuner as his better work. It's really, really, really good. And Dustin Hoffman is great. And the main kid who's in it, who's kind of like an Austin Butler-esque guy. I forget his name.

1:22:58Matt Singer:Leo Woodall. I already said it. Oh, Leo Woodall. Yeah. Really good movie. One of my favorite of the year. It's in my top – you know, we haven't gotten to the end of the year yet. As of right now, you know, mid-September, it's in my top ten. Okay. All right. So that's Tuner on Paramount Plus this week. We also have the screen life movie Life Hack on Netflix on September 23rd. The plot description is four teenage slackers attempt a multi-million dollar Bitcoin heist from their bedrooms, only to spiral into the darkest corners of the internet. I gotta say, every time I hear about a new Screen Life movie, I go, eh, I don't care.

1:23:44Matt Singer:How can I get it? Then sometimes they're good. They are sometimes good. It's like any other genre. It could be good. It could be bad. Yeah, sometimes they're good. Okay. We've also got Toy Story 5, which I'm sure Jordan does not acknowledge as a real movie because it's animated. It doesn't exist. It's not real. but it is streaming on Disney Plus on September 23rd. For the record, I have not seen Toy Story 5. I'm not lining up to see it. One of my other top 10 movies of this year, if this were the end, if today was December 31st, Coyote vs. Acme. Wow, but that's not, I mean, that's only partly animated.

1:24:18Well, it's still animated.

1:24:20Matt Singer:What are you talking about? It's got the Roadrunner and Tweety Bird and all the others. It has Will Forte and John Cena and Human Beings. Who's looking at them? You're looking at Tweety Bird and Daffy Duck and all those guys. Tasmanian Devils in it, for God's sakes. Coyote versus Acme. Sam, you saw it, right? It's so good. It is so good. It is so, so good. Very, very good. But now, Matt, have you raised your kids properly on the Looney Tunes? I mean, I did not take them to see Cowboy versus Acme. Coyote versus Acme yet. But, I mean, we did have a – they had a phase, a Looney Tunes phase back when there were more of those available on HBO Max before they dumped them all down the toilet or wherever they sent them, whatever vault.

1:25:02Matt Singer:They sent them down the Zazz lavatory. But we had a phase, yes. I picked up the box set of the Looney Tunes stuff early on, and my kids know them backwards and forwards. My oldest has a real affection for cheap physical comedy. You know, people getting hit in the groin, people falling downstairs, people getting blown up. So, yeah, the Looney Tunes is right in her wheelhouse, especially. Tom and Jerry also. We will definitely watch Coyote vs. Acme. We just didn't get a chance to yet. But, yeah, Toy Story 5 is on Disney+. We've also got Jackass Best and Last on Paramount+. This was like the farewell to the Jackass franchise.

1:25:50The new stuff was very good. It has a lot of recycled material, which was pretty disappointing. As a Jackass fan, this was not the A-plus farewell that these great cinematic artists deserved. It was more the B-minus farewell that they wound up getting. We've also got Backrooms, one of the big surprise horror hits of the year. Just in time for Scare-tober or whatever it's going to be called. That's going to be on HBO Max. Backrooms is cool. I mean, it was a cultural phenomenon.

1:26:24Matt Singer:I don't think it's great, but I went and saw it and was glad I did. Very effective movie, I thought. Yeah. Very inventive, very effective, very creepy. I'm sure it's going to do very well on HBO Max. That's on September 25th. Then Nate Bargatesy. I can never pronounce this gentleman's name. Bargatesy? Is that it? Bargatesy? I don't think it's Bargatze. I think it's Bargatze. I have luckily never had to say his name out loud. Stand-up comedian. He made his first big movie where he's the leading man, The Breadwinner. I do not think it did particularly well in theaters. But it will be streaming on Netflix on September 26th.

1:27:00Finally, the new John Carney film, Power Ballad, with Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas. I really enjoyed this film. I don't know if you saw this one, Jordan. John Carney, of course, the director of Once and the director of Sing Street. We've done a lot of Carney.

1:27:16Matt Singer:Didn't we do a whole Carney episode once? I don't know if we did a whole episode, but we've definitely talked about him and his movies. And this is his new one. It's a little bit darker than his typical film, but it still has a lot of the same themes about music and collaboration and artists. And it's good. It's going to be on Stars with a Z on September 26th, which is also my dad's birthday. So happy birthday to my dad, who I'm sure is listening. All right. Big ups to Howie. Yeah. Okay. Jordan, do you want to run down the movies that are going straight to streaming this week? Straight to streaming.

1:27:55We already mentioned one of them because we think we're going to be talking about it on our next show.

1:28:00Matt Singer:Well, we got the Tubi original. Tubi's got the originals now. Buzzkill. Nora's tipsy memories hold the clues to figuring out who is killing her friends. Oh, Buzzkill. That's kind of funny. But she can only remember them when she's drunk. That's hilarious. That's a great idea for a movie. I mean, because, you know, this is Chaplin-esque, right? In City Lights. Or is it City Lights where the friend only remembers him when he's drunk? I'm sure it's just like a Chaplin film. It is why I included it in this rundown. It was like the plot description is just too good. It's a pretty good premise for a movie.

1:28:37Matt Singer:Is anybody in this? No, of course not. No, no, no. Well, all right. Hats off to the producers of Buzzkill for making me chuckle. I'm probably not going to watch it, but I respect the premise. The Shudder original. Bloody tennis. Tennis, you know, love, I guess. I don't know. Sophie joins a prestigious tennis academy where the brutality of competitive sports is taken to its extreme. And only the hungriest survive. Oh, okay. Well, that's interesting. Finally, we're probably going to watch this one because it's a biggie. the Netflix original Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski's transformation from a Harvard prodigy to the infamous Unabomber, Jacob Tremblay.

1:29:19Matt Singer:And honestly, I haven't seen him in much lately, but you know, he's, he was a kid actor and now he's a young adult actor. Russell Crowe is, uh, yeah, I mean, I always, you know, honestly, I'm looking forward to learning more about the Unabomber. I, I, I know, I know that he's a mental guy that was in the woods and he sent bombs to people, but he was a genius, I guess. And I'm going to learn more about him. That's intriguing. And by the way, Unabomber is not because he was so low. He was not like a Unabomber. We'll talk more about this next week. Oh, good. Yeah. All right. So anyway, listen. Hey, thank you to the listeners for listening.

1:29:59Matt Singer:I had a good time. I you know maybe maybe maybe maybe Matt should have won this week's game you know we're gonna you're doing the you're you're doing the game next week I don't care what you say you're you're you're gonna still gotta do it what what should be my unabomber related oh god never mind I'll do the game never mind trembling with anticipation or like better than Jake it'll be like all these different Jacob Tremblay's events. I don't know. Listen, if you want to send us an email, please do. Feedback at filmspottingsvu.com We get a lot of good emails, including for Rex eggs, but also just commentary.

1:30:42Matt Singer:We love getting your messages. You can find Matt Singer on Instagram and Letterboxd at superpulse and on Blue Sky at Matt Singer. I'm at Jay Hoffman on Blue Sky. You can Oh my God. It's like if really soon Matt Singer's book is coming out. It's two weeks from the day this podcast comes out. Two weeks from the day. Funny Business is coming out on October 6th. It'll be a pre-order by the stores. And I should say, let me wait. This is actually important. I am doing a book tour. If you're in New York on October 6th, I'll be doing a book reading with our pal Bilga Beery from New York Magazine at the Barnes & Noble on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.

1:31:26and then I have a I'm doing a date on October 11th I believe at Romans in Pasadena California my first LA signing I didn't get to go for opposable thumbs this is my first time so I've so bring your copies of opposable thumbs your unsigned copies and then I will be coming and then I'll be coming to the Iowa City Book Festival and the Refocus Film Festival at the same, both the same weekend at the end of October. I'm looking forward to that. And then finally...

1:32:02Matt Singer:Wait, time out. Who's doing the introduction in Pasadena? Oh, the great Tim Grierson is doing the Q &A there. Tim Grierson. Sam, has Sam and Tim Grierson ever been in the same room? It's a good question. They have a similar vibe. They have a quality. They have a quality. They have a vibe. There's a similar vibe. And I mean this in a positive. They're both, you know, they exude kindness, you know. So I think. And then the last date is in Chicago on, I don't remember the date, but we'll find out before next week. It's at the end of October. It's the Monday right after that weekend. I will be at the Davis Theater in Chicago doing a Q &A and a signing and everything and also hosting a screening of Adam McKay's Step Brothers.

1:32:52so that's going to be a fantastic a fantastic night can they go to matt singer.com and do you have a looks like october october 26th matt at the bookseller in chicago yeah uh yes the davis theater and the bookseller is yes my old neighborhood monday october 26th i've never been to the davis theater but oh i can't wait to go that's actually where i saw many of the films talked about in your book i saw old school there i saw anchorman there i saw four year olds virgin there. Yeah. So excellent. So yeah, on Monday, October 26th, that's the last, the last date on the tour.

1:33:28Matt Singer:When Matt Singer saw 40 year old Virgin, it was just a big mirror. That's all it was. So Brooklyn, Pasadena, Chicago, and Iowa city. That's where you go to get your copy of funny business signed. It's a big deal. It's very exciting. So it's, it's great. It's exciting time. So we're about to wrap up. SVU is produced by Sam Van Halgren, as you know, and we are part of the Film Spotting family of podcasts. We're happy to be part of that family. As Matt alluded to earlier, there was a special invite-only thing where we did a trivia game. Trivia spotting, yes, if you're a member of the family. Sam, people can join the family, right?

1:34:08Matt Singer:Yeah, you can just join the family. Filmspottingfamily.com. Filmspottingfamily.com or go to filmspotting.net and look for the Filmspotting family link. But lots of, you get monthly bonus shows. You get your trivia spotting twice a year. Jordan and I were there. We were both team captains. We were at Jordan 1, as he does almost every week on Film Spotting SVU. Jordan 1. And we met some of the listeners. And there was this one guy, and I apologize for blanking on your name right now. And he was really funny because he had written into the show. And I inadvertently insulted his wife. Yeah, she was really upset.

1:34:46Matt Singer:That was really funny. I apologize to her. I remembered the joke Sam maybe you remember the joke the email was like oh my wife or maybe a girlfriend I don't remember she doesn't like period films or something like that he wrote in as a birthday gift my partner six months of the Criterion channel so I interrupted and said what is she a cheapskate she couldn't shell out for a whole year come on But that is what we call in the business a joke. But I apparently ruffled a few feathers. So I'd like to apologize to the listeners. And they should know that it's always just a good fun. But that was a good time meeting that person and meeting everybody.

1:35:34Matt Singer:So, yeah, join the Film Spotting family. Yes. Yes. All right. For Film Spotting SVU, I'm Matt Singer. And I'm Jordan Hoppin. I'm going to catch you next week.

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