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00:00Hi, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of On Cinema at the Cinema. I'm your host,
00:16New Heidecker. We are back here at the ESA campus. We received word from Grand Terrace
00:26manner that we were no longer welcome on their facilities for whatever reason. I don't
00:31understand, and I'm trying to get clarity on that. I don't understand either. Everything was
00:35seemingly working well. I no longer have a parent at the facility. I think that has something to do
00:42with it, but there were, I would say, I wish it ended on a more amicable note, but we will still
00:49be still dealing with that, trying to get answers, and I wish we could continue there
00:56because I think things are going very well. Yeah, everybody loved what we were doing, and
01:01people were learning about movies. Well, let me introduce my guest today. Greg Turkington is here
01:06back at the VSA, at the ESA. Hey, guys. Welcome to our show where we talk about the latest in movies
01:12and cinema. Yeah, so we're back here talking movies. If you don't mind, I wouldn't mind just
01:18jumping right into the movies because I have a very big announcement to make at the end of the
01:21show today. First movie up is Hamnet. Should be Hamlet. This is a typo here. Hamlet, yeah. Directed by
01:30Chloe Zahao. Starring Paul Mescal, Jesse Buckley, Emily Watson. The story of Agnes, the wife of
01:42William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamlet. Hamnet.
01:47It says Hamnet. It's Hamlet. It's Hamlet. Tell me a little bit about Hamlet. It's, you know,
01:53this is one of the all-time classic plays of Shakespeare that was made into a movie with
01:59Laurence Olivier. Now they've remade it, as they inevitably do, and I hope that they remake
02:05Hamlet as many times, or I hope they remake The Hobbit as many times as they've remade Hamlet,
02:12because I think more people would be into The Hobbit than would be into Hamlet.
02:15But what did you think of, so we're talking about Hamlet. Hamlet. Hamlet.
02:18Here. Hamlet. I loved it. I prefer things that take place in modern times, like the Beverly
02:24Hills Cop or something like that. This takes place in the past, which can work as it works
02:29in something like The Hobbit, but that has more of a fantastical setting than Hamlet, which
02:35just takes place in England and not in the James Bond era of England. So it's cool. I think
02:43Laurence Olivier was a great actor. It's kind of hard to step into his shoes.
02:47Okay.
02:47They've got Paul Mescal and Jesse Buckley. These are more no-name sort of actors than the
02:52great Laurence Olivier, but still a very cool movie, very educational, and definitely a good
02:59diversion. I'm going to give it five bags of popcorn. And I'm going to throw in one of those
03:05little tin cups that are sometimes in the plot of Shakespeare movies that have poison
03:10in them. Just a miniature, like a replica as a souvenir of Hamlet.
03:14All right. Well, I didn't get to see this with what's been going on. It's been absolute chaos.
03:22And so I defer my rating to you. So therefore, I'm going to throw in a five bag of popcorn rating.
03:28Right. You won't regret that. This is not a popcorn movie. This is a movie you'd almost
03:35have to have a PhD in movies or something to appreciate. Which I do. But yeah, it's very
03:41serious. It's not a comedy. I think they've had parodies of Shakespeare before, but this
03:46is the real deal. Right. I think Mel Brooks had Shakespeare, Men in Tights.
03:51So it's almost similar to that. Exactly. Which is a very cool movie, which we actually
03:54have seven copies of at the VFA. All right. Let's keep going. I'm giving you this gift
04:01today of three movies. It's a gift to the viewers.
04:05Ella McCray from The Great James L. Brooks, starring Ella McKay. Oh, sorry. Starring Emma
04:13McKay. So I don't know if this should be Ella McKay. Emma McKay, starring Emma McKay. Jason,
04:23Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson from Cheers, and Ayo Deboe, Eddie Beery. An idolistic woman,
04:34an idolistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love.
04:43What? People you love and how to survive them. Emma McKay. Yeah, it's funny. Definitely
04:50a lot of laughs. It's not, you know, they wouldn't call it National Lampoons, Emma McKay, because
04:56it's not that type of raunch humor. It's a little more sophisticated. I thought it was confusing
05:01that the actress, like you said, is named Emma McKee or Emma McKay, and then the movie's
05:06called Ella McKay. So the movie's called Ella McKay, and the actress is called Ella McKay.
05:14The actress is Emma McKay, or Emma Mackie. McKay, Mackie, I'm not sure how it's pronounced.
05:21And you've never heard of her. She's a no-name fan. No, but I do know who Ella McKay is,
05:25who's the character, because I watched the movie. Yeah, it's basically about a woman that juggles
05:33her family and work life. So kind of a comedy, and a few moments that border on drama, but
05:42basically a good movie.
05:43You know, again, I'm back to harping on this, but the title is a little drab for me. I mean,
05:48we've already had something like Erin Brockovich, and sometimes maybe you could, if every movie
05:54was just the name of the main character, I think it would be pretty boring. It would be
05:57like, if you look at the listings in the movie theater, it's almost as if you're looking at the
06:03white pages in the phone book. So we have to come up with better titles, and James Brooke is the
06:10master of that, and it's a shame that he dropped the ball here. But this was a fun movie, and I do
06:15give it five bags of popcorn. But it is true that if, when he had, when he cast Emma Mackie, and then
06:22came up with the title of Ella Mackie, if, like, you mentioned Erin Brockovich, what if they called
06:28that movie Julia, you know, Bobberts or something. It's pretty lazy. So I'm going to dock it a point
06:35for that. But it's, it doesn't really deserve to be docked a point, because it's a great movie.
06:42So I'm going to give it five bags of popcorn.
06:43All right, and our final review, this is our final review, in a lot of ways.
06:51For season 16.
06:52Five Nights at Freddy's 2. This is, speaking of Ella McKay, we got directed by Emma Tammy,
07:01directed by, starring McKenna Grace, sorry, again, mix this up, Grace McKenna, and Josh Hutcherson,
07:08starring, and this is 1987, after a rather unstable life, Jeremy Fitzgerald found work
07:15as a security guard in the new Freddy's Fazbear pizzeria. But when he entered there, he, when
07:21he entered, he there, when he entered, he would then, he would realize that not everything
07:26there is as it seems. So Freddy, Five Nights at Freddy's, the sequel to Five Nights at Freddy's
07:311, the movie. What did you think of Five Nights at Freddy's 2?
07:35Thank you for adding the movie. Yeah, I liked it. You know, it's like a lot of these movies
07:39that are based on games, whether it's Clue or Jumanji, another one. The movie is better
07:47than the game, you know? And in this case, the movie is better than the game, Five Nights
07:53at Freddy's, but also better than the original movie, Five Nights at Freddy's. So it's kind
07:58of a raunch, got a raunchy element to it, like a Porky's 2, because it's the 2. The first
08:07one is more like Porky's. But I'm going to give it five bags of popcorn, five bags at Freddy's.
08:16Hopefully they add popcorn to the menu at Freddy's Pizzeria, because that would be a cool tie-in.
08:22Well, I wonder, you always kind of wonder, because we know we have so much evidence of
08:26this, that Hollywood has been spying on us and taking stuff from us. I wonder if psychologically
08:31or sort of subliminally, they're trying to gain, you know, try to, they're after that
08:38five bag review from us, so they're naming movies, Five This and Five That. We see a lot
08:43of movies named Five This, Five That. This is another example of Five Nights at Freddy's.
08:48It has not swayed me. I'm looking at this as an impartial judge, and I do give it five
08:53bags of popcorn because it delivers on the frights and the scares. They should have released
08:58this on Halloween, though. This is a, they dropped the ball on their release date, in
09:01my opinion. So five bags of, five bags of popcorn for Five Nights at Freddy's, too.
09:08But if we were to do a Friday the 13th movie, I'm not giving it 13 bags of popcorn.
09:14That's where I dropped the line, so. You're sneaky, Hollywood, but you're not gonna sway
09:18me.
09:18All right, we're gonna wrap things up here. I do have a big announcement to make, but
09:22do you wanna do a...
09:23Popcorn classic?
09:23Yes, you get your final popcorn classic.
09:25What do you mean, okay, that's not the final popcorn classic.
09:33This is a very cool popcorn classic that I actually had something to do with.
09:37It's ALF 5, which is the fifth of the ALF movies that have been coming out recently.
09:44This one's an interesting story in that ALF has gotten himself locked into the garage because
09:51Kate's parents are coming to visit, and they don't want ALF around because of the trouble
09:56he causes. And then later, in the same movie, ALF gets into soap operas and writing soap operas
10:03and things. So, kind of an interesting story, and definitely the best to date of the ALF
10:08movies.
10:15Without further ado, I just want to make a brief statement, if you don't mind, give me
10:20the grace to do that.
10:21I have come to a decision regarding this show. I have spent the past few weeks since the passing
10:31of my father. Things have been very difficult and challenging for me. And I've sort of reached
10:42a crossroads for me. And I've given this a lot of thought. I've talked to Grok about this
10:50quite a bit the past few weeks. And I think this show has been running now for 13 years
10:57and has provided a great service for everybody looking for what movies to see. But in my own
11:06personal life, I feel like I need to step away. And I need to stop doing this show and take
11:17some time for myself. And therefore, I am announcing my retirement from broadcasting
11:23at this point. And this has been not an easy decision and is a complicated choice that I've made.
11:32But it is best for me and my health that I make this decision. And I hope you all understand that
11:40there's been the joy of my life to come into your homes and share myself with you. But you've got
11:47to kind of what Willie Nelson would say, you've got to know when to fold them and know when to
11:51hold them. At this point, it's time to put my cards down and step away. I will be,
11:59first of all, getting out of this hotel that I've been living in for the past several months and
12:08relocating. I found a beautiful condo in Lake Havasu, Arizona, home of the Big Ben and London Bridge.
12:19And very affordable and quiet life, a different lifestyle. And again, I want to thank you for your
12:29information you've provided and all the work you've done. And I know we don't always see eye
12:35to eye, but that's always what made I think this show so interesting. And I leave you with the words
12:42that I put on the back of my father's funeral, which is from Tom Cochran. Life is a highway,
12:48and I want to ride it all night long. But the show at the cinema, on the cinema, will be ending at this
12:55episode. This will be the final episode of the show. And if you want to provide your movie
12:58information on the internet, you're welcome to. But I wish you all the best, and thank you very
13:03much for... The show can continue. You said you're quitting, but we can keep doing the show.
13:09I don't know what you mean by we, because I will be retired, and you can... But we can do the show
13:14without you. I have committed to the Oscar special, and I'll be coming back for that.
13:20And that will be truly the curtain closing. I don't think so, because we can... I can be doing
13:26more episodes with a different host. And because it's the movie criticism that they want. It's not
13:32you, it's not me. It's the movie information. We can talk about that later, but this will be the end
13:37of the On Cinema at the Cinema series. I will be focusing on other things. Not so fast. And one of which
13:44is exciting. The new chapter will be my focus on storytelling and animation through the Doodle
13:50Dots project. That will be sort of a way to remember my dad, because he was a big part of
13:58the genesis there. And I just want to thank everybody for the many years that we've spent
14:06together talking movies. And if I say two more, I'm going to... I'm not going to be able to say
14:13anything, because it's going to become too emotional. But I want to end with dignity and
14:17grace and thank God for leading me on this journey and knowing that the journey that he has for me
14:23into the future will be one of peace and forgiveness and relaxation and joy.
14:30Well, you've earned it. And I thank you for all your service to movies, but it's not the end of the
14:34series.
14:35It is the end of the series, and we're not going to debate that. Stop it. We're not talking about
14:39the end of you. You can go on the internet on X or whatever and say what you want about whatever
14:46movie you want, but it's not going to be on this show, because this show has an exclamation point
14:51at the end of it, and it is today's episode. Thank you, guys. See you in March for the Oscar
14:56special. Good night.
14:58All right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry it ended that way.
15:01Well, it doesn't happen that way, because we can do more episodes.
15:03You push me and push me, and that's what happens. So we're done. Okay? Get your shit out of this room,
15:08because I'm not paying for this room anymore. This is my room.
15:11No, it's not your room. This is my network room, and I'm letting you stay here. So pack your shit,
15:15because I'm checking out tonight.
15:16I'll see you next time.
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