Neighbours & The Ballad of Wallis Island

Ballad of Wallis Island

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review. The podcast that is to community spirit as a sewage pipe is to a children's paddling pool. This week, we're celebrating our neighbors those glorious accidents of geography se separated from you by a party wall, and an increasingly thin veneer of civility. Our top five neighbors segment promises more feuds than the Balkans and more passive aggression than the marriage held together by bitterness and a 30 year mortgage.

Our main feature sees us trapped on a Welsh island with the Ballad of Wallace Island, a film about a lottery winner who reunites his favorite folk duo in order to perform just for him, whilst also being a delightfully funny and melancholy look at the impossibility of recapturing the past and the pain of moving on.

Before we crack on, we're about to spoil more viewings than Dan's naked yoga phase did for his neighbors. And we have been known from time to time to let the odd bad word slip out. So if you're still under the impression this podcast has any redeeming quality, I'm afraid we're about to breach the peace.

For everyone else, let's meet this week's reasons [00:01:00] why property lions should be electrified. Starting with Dan, he's so old, he remembers when neighbors actually knew each other and he's spent the intervening centuries making sure nobody ever makes that mistake again. Not

Dan: Another true story.

Reegs: Next up it's fetching Chris, a man who volunteers his free time to co-host a film review podcast.

Despite maintaining what appears to be a genuine and visceral hatred of cinema, unless there's arterial spray and someone choking on their own tongue, Chris treats watching films like a man attending his own circumcision.

Cris: Yeah,

Reegs: yeah. Peering over the fence in third place, the man whose enthusiasm for neighborly relations has resulted in several strongly worded letters, a cease and desist order, and what the police are generously describing as an ongoing situation.

It's sidey. Hello? And then there's me Vicke. Hello?

Cris: Hello.

Dan: Hi, Cy, because you've missed a week.

Reegs: Yes.

Dan: Why

Reegs: it couldn't do last

Sidey: We

had to, we had to move the day to move. 'cause of me being selfish and then Reese couldn't do that day.

Cris: Oh, I keep going

on about your birthday.

Reegs: the film was good though, wasn't it? Love Lies Bleeding.

What a [00:02:00] great film that

Dan: It was a decent movie. Yeah.

Sidey: How'd you feel about the hairstyles and that

Reegs: Great hairstyles? Yeah. I, it's, it's, yeah, on a par you talked about it being on a par with the the Mexican for

Sidey: Yeah, the Colombian one.

Reegs: Yeah. Colombian Cholo music, and it's right up there

Dan: And we had some good mullets again, but I wouldn't say good haircuts in neighbors.

The midweek that we did. this week. And that is the, the kind of theme that we've elected to bring to the top five this week. But did we have, and not mullets neighbors, but did we have any top fives from last

Sidey: It was alarms, wasn't it?

Reegs: did have something online. Darren

Sidey: submitted

Dan: leaf aid up.

Reegs: saw that. What was, what was it?

Sidey: The wrong trousers, the museum alarm. Protecting the blue diamond.

Dan: Right.

Sidey: Entrapment.

Reegs: Yes.

Sidey: Which is.

Scene

Connery and Catherine Z.

Reegs: Jones, all in black around all those lasers and

Sidey: things. Like a

Cris: remember that.

Sidey: of him pressing go on a computer, I think. Yeah.

Dan: A laser alarm.

Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. There's a [00:03:00] Welsh rock band called The Alarm. Yeah. And it just was any sci-fi movie with a self-destruct countdown. And I think

Reegs: a good shout,

Sidey: Space Balls has one that's got like. Jazzy music and like

Reegs: This Space Ball's two coming

Sidey: I know. I think that's gonna be dreadful, isn't it?

Reegs: Yeah. What's the point? But also I'll watch it.

Dan: two space balls.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Sidey: So, did anyone watch anything on the television or the, or the cinema

Dan: on the

box? It didn't go to the cinema, no, but it's been a long time.

Sidey: Anything new?

Dan: I am going to have to reflect on that a little deeper. I don't think I did. I did some go with the Dragon tattoo things and I finished that.

Right. But that's just more of a continuation of what I was watching.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Dan: So,

Cris: I watched south Korean film, which I, I'm trying to remember now where, what the title was. I can't remember what the title was.

But it wasn't as good as,

Dan: it's probably only two or three.

Cris: No, there's [00:04:00] loads of them. I have, I have a list of them saved of South Korean films. I just, the actors were actors that I've seen before in South Korean films. It was more like a detective, police kind of thing. I think, I think it was I think it was on Prime actually.

And it was these two police guys in. I'm gonna say Inchon, but

Dan: okay.

Cris: in one of the cities in Korea, two detectives working for the same unit, but they've got the two separate squads and they're kind of going at each other and one of them is dirty. The other one's not that dirty, but they're, it is it, it sounds a little more interesting than it turns out to be and it's quite long and they're investigating the same murder, but they're both kind of trying to,

Dan: fall? What time did you fall asleep?

thing. Whoa. Okay.

Cris: Strange

Dan: got, I'd say, I'm just gonna love on your shoes and socks today.

Sidey: The tooty. Fruities.

Dan: yeah, they're

Reegs: What's

going on? Should stick your leg up.

Dan: Look at this. We've got about eight different colors on the shoe, and then lime [00:05:00] green electric socks.

And you've gone li you've gone sort of electric orange

Okay. Alright. We, we will, we'll probably won't

Cris: fair, probably these socks are more interesting than the film that I watched, but I probably didn't explain it very well. But

Sidey: yeah, we could go on like feet finder with our socks or something.

Per

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: Is that like OnlyFans for

Sidey: feet? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

We need to diversify. What about you Riggs?

Reegs: I, what did I watch some stuff? Nice. Yeah. Is it good? Some of it was, yeah. And some of it was better than others and, yeah.

Sidey: Okay, cool. I didn't watch anything new. I,

Dan: did watch something on YouTube, which was trying to explain why those.

Three guys won the Nobel Prize for

Sidey: Instead of Donald

Yeah.

Dan: and it's mad. It was absolutely mad. This guy's explanation. Basically it was schrody, his cat stuff and they've started to say, well, tiny little atoms and things that are bouncing through. [00:06:00] Walls and turning up in places they shouldn't fucking turn up. But now they can maximize this to make it bigger and in theory then

Sidey: put it up to 11.

Dan: turning up to 11 basically.

And they

Reegs: utilizing quantum effects, but on a, like a,

Dan: a Like a A macro scale. Yeah. Instead of a micro Yeah. And it was just mind blowing. You think, how the hell is it? That gonna change everything

Reegs: Well, we've already got, so there's quantum computers as well.

Have you ever seen pictures of those? They look fucking mad because they have all the coolant and stuff in them. They're like balls of light. They're like tubes of light descending from the ceiling. Like they look absolutely crazy. But yeah, they, they take advantage of quantum

Sidey: clever enough to really get my head

Dan: What? What?

Reegs: I'm not really either.

But I do understand a little bit.

Dan: what they had to do for this, to do this experiment was to somehow make an experiment where they, there was a space that was colder than space itself.

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: Way

Sidey: The fridge.

Reegs: have to be like no colder than the fridge

Dan: [00:07:00] colder than the freezer. Even colder than my freezer.

Reegs: Yeah. No colder than the freezer.

Dan: And you just think, what, how does it, how does that even

exist somewhere? You know, wouldn't it just freeze everything it came within contact of, but apparently not. You'd have to put like loads of socks around it, I guess, just to keep it warm on the outside.

Reegs: that is how they do it with socks.

Sidey: does it have to be socks? It

Dan: It could be a scarf. It, you know, something warm, body warmer.

Cris: Long Johns.

Dan: Yeah. Good jelly.

Sidey: Shall we get on, we're talking about neighbors?

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: Okay, let's do that.

Cris: Neighbors. Neighbors.

Dan: Neighbors.

Sidey: you, you're not a detached house, are you? Down here where we are.

You se you've got a

Dan: got a semi. Yeah, I've got a semi.

Sidey: did you get on with your neighbors?

Dan: Never spoke to them. We've only been here 12 years. Yeah.

Sidey: Is

the one opposite

Dan: so

Sidey: don't you have beef with someone?

Dan: The ones opposite. No, they're, it is parking wars around here.

The people here actually that we absolutely fine. Just don't have

Sidey: any

yeah. [00:08:00] It's just neutral

Dan: further down the street. We speak to everyone. I think the further away they get from me, they're all fine.

Reegs: hit onto something with parking. So I think that is maybe the number one thing that P neighbors wind each other up about is parking.

Dan: Well, that leads me into Grand Torino, which is a, a film that has neighbors and it's, and a car. So,

Sidey: kind of car was it?

Dan: It's I can't remember. I think it was some kind of Ford.

Sidey: right?

Dan: It was no, it was the Grand Torino. So you've got this Clint Eastwood, who's a, a rather

racist,

racist like.

Angry Korean War veteran and suddenly you've got a lot of

Reegs: He's separate, he's got two sons, hasn't he? That he doesn't see

Dan: anything. Yeah.

Reegs: he think his wife is dead

Sidey: he's seen the neighborhood change.

Dan: Yeah.

That's it. It, it is changed. You've got lots of sort of Asian families that have moved in, but for him and his racism, they're all the same, you know?

But and when one.[00:09:00]

Sort of gang

Sidey: It's gang bangers. Yeah.

Dan: you

know,

around his place. And it turns out the neighbor's kid was also fell in with him. But he's actually a really good kid and brought up in a really sort of strict household. And they all have ultimate respect for everything that, you know, he does really.

Reegs: They formed a little un like unlikely friendship of sorts, haven't

Dan: Yeah, they do. I mean, there's a, there's some great moments in it. At one point he goes, oh, you know, how'd, I'll never get all these toys. And he goes, well, you don't just get them all in one go. You are quiet them over time. And he's saying, there, there's a fucking hammer for you.

They, these are the basic tools. Yeah.

Reegs: him the tools. Yeah. He

Dan: And he gives him, a bit of an education in how to fix things. And he also then gets invited to the family events and actually starts to enjoy his neighbors around them. Obviously it all finishes in a 'cause he's dying anyway, isn't he? He, he knows that [00:10:00] he's dying.

His wife has already died. And he, he has one kind of final chance be a bit of a hero. Grand Torino. Yeah. Really liked the film. I think we did it for the po a while back.

Reegs: Just what sort of neighbor do you think Walker Kawalski would've made a good one?

Dan: well

Reegs: I think it'd be fairly quiet.

Sidey: Yeah. He'd be aside from the racism

Reegs: Yeah. The racism would be a

Sidey: long as people who live like in close proximity, keep themselves to themselves.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Fine.

Reegs: Yeah. So he's gonna be right up there with one of the better neighbors.

Dan: He was, he was, ignorant really than you know, that word as I am of the word. Then then racist.

'cause he didn't really hate them, he just didn't understand them and he didn't want anything to do with people. 'cause they were different

think

Reegs: was a bit racist, but I think that was, you know, they, he, he underwent an, an arc of some sorts, but, you know, that was what was like interesting and unconventional about the film is like to, to be kind of

Dan: Yeah. I mean, it was definitely used racist words and [00:11:00] he, you know, he, he, he was using, but there wasn't, there wasn't really any hatred

Sidey: Well, like you say, he was a veteran of the war, wasn't he? Yeah. So he had These were enemies. Exactly. He hadn't moved on. blah, blah, blah, et cetera. Yeah. But good film. I enjoyed it. Riggs.

Reegs: Oh, right. What are we gonna have? What about rear Window?

Yeah. I mean, it's such an inspiration anyway for so many other films including another film on my list. But yeah, this is the, the film of Jimmy Stewart. He's a photographer. He is recovering from a broken leg and he's waited on by his absolutely gorgeous girlfriend, Lisa Grace Kelly. But instead of watching her, he decides to look out the window at Lars,

Sidey: Thorwald.

Reegs: Fal.

Yeah. And you know, begins to spy on his life with him and his like bedridden wife. And he starts to see like a few shady things. He's going in and out with a hacksaw and carry, you know, heavy rope and late night trips carrying a large case comes to [00:12:00] the conclusion that he's murdered his wife.

Spoiler alert he did. So, and that was a great one and it, like I said, it inspired so many Simpsons moments and other references, and then the film Disturbia. Did you ever see that one?

Sidey: the

Reegs: Sheer, it's sheer The beef. Yeah. Essentially the same movie he plays kale, I think is the character's name. And I

Sidey: The vegetable.

Reegs: no, I fucking hate kale.

It's like, I don't mind my greens, but kale is awful. It's the worst one.

Dan: I quite like it if

Sidey: Oh no. Make it to crisp.

Cris: No, no,

Reegs: it's awful.

Dan: I, I know.

Cris: I agree with you on that one.

Reegs: He gets put on house arrest after a fight with a teacher. And while he's stuck at home, he beca becomes convinced that the person next door is a serial killer. And spoiler alert is,

Sidey: Wow. Everyone is what they seem to be. And these,

Reegs: So as neighbors go, these two killers are probably, again, apart from the late night stuff, which would bother me. They're mostly quite good neighbors. I think they're quiet. We've

Sidey: new-ish neighbors and they're really friendly.

Reegs: Yeah. Oh, that's too

Dan: over friendly, bit too matey.[00:13:00]

Sidey: like every time you see them you have to have a conversation. And I don't want to, not like, because I dislike 'em or anything, but I don't have that much to say anyway. And then you just have that awkward, like right doing,

Reegs: you're right.

Sidey: washing your car again. Fucking hell.

Reegs: your house.

Sidey: I just go away. But they are very nice.

specific

Dan: listening as well. Yeah.

Sidey: What about I had rear window done that one. Sid Phillips.

Reegs: Yes.

Sidey: From Toy Story. It's a story about toys. Sid is the is the little shit bag who lives next door, who,

Dan: shit

Sidey: Gets the toys and dismembers them and, and sort of tortures them. He does the old classic magnifying glass to burn them.

And of course we know from watching the film that all toys are sentient. Yeah. So that's, it's proper torture. Yeah. There's three when Woody sort of. Finds himself in Sid's room. He sees these three toys that he's manufactured. And they are, they mean they are something. It's an adults only gag.

Reegs: Oh. Oh yeah. No, I've seen this [00:14:00] before

Sidey: about it recently and I, for life of me, can't remember what it is. But they have to, they eventually, they break the

Reegs: One of them's like a fishing line with tights. It's like a hooker. Like a literal hooker. Yeah, like a literal prostitute.

Sidey: they break the, the cardinal rule of the, the toy thing of not.

Letting on that you're, they're actually sentient. Yeah. They just scare the shit outta Sid and get their own back on him.

Reegs: and the dog as well.

It's got, he's got a, an evil dog, doesn't he as

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: It seems they've overstepped the mark there though, 'cause he is still a

Cris: No, fuck him. I, I had, the only thing that came to my mind was that grand Torino, which is actually the, the first one that I came to my head because I, I really liked that film and I I did have a neighbor that was like that and until he died and they had to.

Break into his house and apparently he was a hoarder and he had rats and all sorts at the sixth floor of the building where we lived. Luckily we were on the 13th floor, so the rats didn't really travel that high. Nice. But yeah, it was kind of like that. He was quite, [00:15:00] he was a Jehovah as well, which I thought was quite strange.

He was racist, but he was a Jehovah anyway. They didn't make a movie about him, so sorry about that.

Reegs: But as a neighbor, he was all right.

Was he?

Cris: Yeah, we, he never, he did smell a bit like old, you know, when old people smell that, like a,

Sidey: musty, kind of

Cris: combination of almost sweat and stale and Yeah.

Sidey: Like an old book.

Cris: Like an old book.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: yeah. Decay.

Dan: Sorry. But that's just my arm to shave.

Cris: but how about Kevin Spacey in American Beauty?

Reegs: I like it.

Yeah.

Sidey: The, well say

that. Yeah. I've just got the Fitz, the Fitz family. So Ricky Fitz is the young lad who start selling in weed. right. And the old man's the fucking lunatic.

Yeah.

Cris: With the wife.

Sidey: the, the Nazi collector.

Reegs: ends up making a party at him, doesn't he?

Sidey: Sorry about the mess. And it's like immaculate house. Yeah, right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Yeah.

Cris: Okay. So I can put that as neighbor. Yeah,

Sidey: for sure.

Dan: We can, we can put that we did the burbs.

Reegs: We did. Yes.

Dan: And that was obviously Tommy Hanks in a Thanks, [00:16:00] early, early role and he's in, in his house and he, he becomes increasingly convinced that the clo ex is something like that.

I think they're called are murderers and that.

Kind of the windows are twitching. You get that, you know, the curtains are twitching at night and they're looking through and shadows are playing on the ball and they're trying to go in and catch them in the middle of either burying a body or dismembering it or something like that.

There was a few laughs in this, as I remember on the way. I think we gave it a strong recommend in the end.

Reegs: Yeah, it's probably,

Dan: It

Sidey: I don't think I did. But

Dan: you didn't.

Sidey: No. But others did.

Dan: It was in the end, I remember it was, there was a bit of a twist again because it was like, oh no, they're not. And then there was, right at the end there was a, another little kicker and you go,

Sidey: got you.

Dan: actually they might be

But the burbs,

Reegs: the burs,

Dan: the burs, the neighbors

Reegs: well. [00:17:00] The neighbor, I think, is probably a staple of American sitcoms in

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: yeah.

Reegs: Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld is like the archetype. I think.

He's like, he's sort of almost defies definition. He's got like no visible means of income, but is always into like lots of schemes and seems to have enough money to do stuff. Just a real oddball

Sidey: He had the really memorable way of bursting through the door,

Reegs: just smacking the door wide open and coming in.

And I think in one E one episode, him and Jerry had to swap apartments for a couple of weeks, which was,

Dan: they did, yeah,

Reegs: of an interesting one. So yeah, an absolute staple of that. Friends had also quite a few good neighbors characters. There was ugly, naked guy that they would watch out the window.

Sidey: Had to build a thing to poke him to see if he's alive.

And when

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah. And then there was Mr. Heckles who would sort of bang on the floor of the apartment, make too much noise, blah, blah, blah. And they were, after he died, [00:18:00] he left all his money to the Monica and Rachel, I think after he died. Chandler sitting in his flat and he starts to hear people and he starts banging and then realize he's turned in,

Sidey: of course they're all friends because they're neighbors.

Reegs: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And they're all friends 'cause they're neighbors. Yeah,

Sidey: Pete is a huge fan of that I also had Seinfeld same building, so I dunno if he can have apartments. They're not on the same floor. Yeah. But Newman.

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: he would. And he would always, so Kramer would always enter the same way and Newman would walk in and it'd be like that sort of thing.

Cris: Is that the chunky guy?

Sidey: big fat guy from Jurassic Park? Yeah, he went on to work in Jurassic Park. So, was all right. What about. Agatha Harkness

Reegs: from,

what about

Sidey: well, wand vision.

So that's the, so it is a suburban setting. Yeah. And every episode was changing different sort of time period because Wanda was controlling the reality.

Reegs: was good. I, I [00:19:00] remember enjoying wonder Vision

Sidey: and then it ends there. There's, there's a song about it. I think the fame tune it was, it was Agnes.

Oh. Along or after all, or something like that. And it's another, it's a rival witch. And then she had a spinoff show, which I actually quite enjoyed. Thought that was all right. So I'll go for her.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: I'm surprised you didn't mention Ned Flanders already.

Sidey: I was gonna try and keep him back for my mom.

I didn't think, I wasn't confident that he'd be still around to nom.

Dan: Well, I mean, I'll, I'll leave you mention Ned

Sidey: No, no. You've done it now.

Dan: well.

Reegs: Hyde Lee Ho

Dan: Hyde. Lee Ho indeed. Oakley Oakley. Yeah, he's a, he's a pillar of the community, isn't he? He's your Mr. Dependable neighbor.

Reegs: Always got good things to

Dan: He's good hearted.

He's opens up his left auditorium on one of them, which was brilliant and they just kind of all laugh at him and. Trying to stitch him up really. He, he's got his

Sidey: homer that

Dan: shop and then Homer does eventually

Sidey: a solid for him.

Dan: does a solid, and everybody goes to the left auditorium

Reegs: They do lefthanded scissors.[00:20:00]

Dan: wow. It's brilliant.

And and he's absolutely ripped as well, isn't he? Yeah.

Sidey: can see his dick in the episode where, moore dies.

Homer tries to make a video to put him on like a dating thing and he films Ned stepping outta the shower and they blur it out. But you can see they, the invocation is

Reegs: like his massive schlog.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Ned's

packing.

Sidey: I also, I think the classic. Neighbor scene of them two is where Homer like becomes friends with him. And goes to see him, just appears as they're playing basketball and then, you know, it's the bit with the, with the,

Dan: the bushes

Reegs: backing through the

Sidey: and then he just tested, like terminated back

Reegs: Yeah.

And the golf clubs on the back of the car. Fantastic. Well, Wilson, have you finished?

Sorry.

Dan: No,

I've finished Wilson from

Reegs: Home improvement?

Dan: Oh yeah.

Sidey: was fucking, how you taking my arms going? Carry on.

Reegs: He, he's gotta be right up there. I think

Dan: you only saw like his nose and

Reegs: was, face was [00:21:00] revealed in the finale, I think. Oh, really? But you, like you say, for the whole duration, it was like a long

Dan: a hat.

Sidey: He was the sage, you know. Yeah. Advice giving

Reegs: He was

Sidey: they kill him in the Simpson's version of it.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: It mows him down with his lawnmower. Yeah.

Reegs: So there's him Arlington Road. The actual tagline for the, for the film was Fear Thy Neighbor. And it was made in 1999 and. A film at that time about American domestic terrorism seemed kind of farfetched. Or the idea that your neighbor could be a member of an extreme subculture, but that, again, seemed farfetched then, but seems like it could happen, you know, for real.

And it, Tim Robbins, I think, is the evil neighbor, is that right? Head of an extremist.

Sidey: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Reegs: And he pins a bombing on Jeff Bridges, makes him an unwitting foil or whatever in his plan.

Sidey: Cool. Should we norm?

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: I, I'll just run through Mr. Wilson from Dennis Meni. And [00:22:00] Barney and Betty Rum Rumble. Yeah. Yeah. No, from the Flintstones. The rubbles. The rubbles, yeah. The rumbles. I will hold onto my nom. Just one more moment. Chris, did you have any more neighbors to add?

Cris: I think it's the kind of the same role, but I can't remember the bloody it is Bruce Willis in this red, and there's another one that he plays with and he's Tommy the Tulip or something like that in,

Sidey: Oh, like a retired undercover or something.

Cris: He's like a, like a killer kind of thing guy. And, and the, the first film is. It's not the longest yard. It's like the sixth yard or

Sidey: something. Oh, the, the whole nine yards? Yes. With, it's with Matthew Perry.

Cris: Yes, that one. But the scene is kind of similar because at the beginning of the film, he is in, in both films, he's the friendly neighbor, but the actual, all his neighbors are contract killers to kind of watch him and just go and try to kill him.

So in, in both films, the the neighbors kind of. They're all friendly. Hi. Ah, hi bald man. Ha ha. [00:23:00] But actually they're, they're all so, so then his actual neighbors are meant to be his pals and he's got pictures of the neighbors at family barbecues and that, but they're actually not his mates. So he's the same actor with two kind of similar roles, but

Reegs: both times his neighbors were trying to kill him, that they would be probably low on the list of neighbors you'd want.

Isn't it neighbors that are trying to kill you? Definitely. Yeah. you

Dan: choose your neighbors.

No.

Is it me? Is he coming around that way? Well, okay. Ask you. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna say something too. I'm gonna go.

That's

Winnie Cooper. That was the, the thing that they always played on the wander years. Just as she would turn up and they would kind of do a soft focus of her because Kevin, oh, absolutely loved dip. Fred Savage, Kevin Arnold.

Reegs: Did you fancy Winnie a bit?

Dan: Probably at the time. At the time, you know,

Reegs: I'm not talking about now. 'cause

that

Dan: She was, she was you know, just this [00:24:00] wonderful girlfriend that Kevin was in love with and they were best friends and it was also innocent. And I just thought this was the best show on TV at the time.

Reegs: fucking hate it.

Dan: I loved it. She lived

Reegs: but she lived next

Dan: and she, well, she lived on the same kind of block, so there were neighbors, not direct neighbors, but she was a, along that that street.

And

Reegs: How far away do you consider people not to be your neighbors anymore?

Sidey: I would say same street

Dan: Yeah,

Reegs: So what the people at the end of down

Dan: Yeah, they're, they're my neighbors still. They're number 18. They, my number's, you

Cris: this is also, we have to say for normal human listeners that are from cities, not from Jersey or from the, you know, the country. Anyone in your apartment building is your neighbor. So if you live on a, I

dunno,

Reegs: whole apartment in like say you're 20

Sidey: So if you're in the Birge Khalifa,

Reegs: yeah,

Cris: okay.

Maybe not that, but let's say if you're in the city and you and you live in a 15 story or 10 story or whatever, 10 floor building, they're all your neighbors [00:25:00] because they live in the, there's one

Reegs: think I would consider anybody who wasn't on my floor a potential enemy,

Cris: Not if

you all live together, because some of my, your potential enemy might shit in the lift.

so, so then you want them to be your neighbors and

Reegs: from a potential

Cris: to care about, you know, whoever else lives there. So, so this is you. We, we are all in this privileged environment where everybody lives in a house, but not everybody lives in a house is flats all over the world. Yeah.

Dan: But I would, I would call them neighbors still. The purge, we did mention it

Sidey: last week.

Dan: last week. Last week there was some pretty uncomfortable neighbors in that film as well.

Sidey: Did you? No. Me at res. I can't remember.

Reegs: I haven't. No. Go for it. I was gonna nominate game Night. Have you seen that movie?

I've

Sidey: Jason

Cris: Is that Rachel

something.

Yeah.

Reegs: Bateman.

It's got a horribly generic title. And those two being in it would, you'd kind of go, eh, but it's actually way funnier,

Cris: Yeah,

Reegs: than you'd

Dan: actually.

Cris: agree with that. I quite like her though. She's quite,

Sidey: I really like him.

Reegs: There. [00:26:00] Well, and he's really good in this and playing a very slightly different character to what he normally plays.

And the neighbor. So it's about a couple that have this like, regularly scheduled game night. Amazingly what surprise that is but you know, it gets fucking kiboshed by the big brother who think is Carl Chandler turning up and like, the game becomes much more complicated. But the next door neighbor is.

Called Gary, and it's played by Jesse Clemens and he is a bit of a dick and he's very weird in this film. Like

Cris: the, like the the brother or something, the blonde guy that

keeps,

Reegs: he was married to their friend before and they've divorced, so that's why they don't want him to come to game night. And he's a police officer and he keeps turning up and being like, he'll invite 'em to his house and then just retreat into the shadows.

Like it is really weird.

Cris: Oh yeah, I remember that. That's actually quite funny. I'm not

Dan: gonna

lie. Nobody nobody calls. Their kids, Gary, anymore? Do they? It's a dying name.

Sidey: No. If you wouldn't, would you?

Cris: Thank God,

Reegs: please.

This is brought to you by The People's Choice. For [00:27:00] Gary. Please name your child

Cris: no,

Sidey: Gaz.

Reegs: If you call Gary, write in and, and tell us.

Dan: Yeah. Or if you know a Gary

Reegs: Mm.

Cris: or if you've taken a Gary.

Reegs: so yeah. Game night much better than, it's a bit of a strong recommend for that. 'cause it's better than you

Sidey: Okay.

Right. Well, I had some lined up to me when I'm being taken 'em all, so I'm gonna go for two Planet planetary neighbors.

from Star Trek, Vulcan and

Romulus.

Dan: Right?

Sidey: They are neighboring planets.

Reegs: Are they? Yeah. I don't think I knew that.

Sidey: and. The Vulcans are sensible, straight down the line. Logic only ones and Thero, Milans are not like that.

They're devious, horrible fucking monger. But they're cousins of the Vulcans and they Thero Milans from Ro Muus. And they're always fighting each other and stuff and things. And I think in one timeline, I think the, the Chris Pine Star Trek timeline, they actually destroy, they used some [00:28:00] antimatter thing to destroy Vulcan.

Wow.

So there you go. So yeah, I've gone, I've taken it out to

Reegs: happens in the JJ Abrams one, doesn't it? With the red

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. That's Chris Pine. I

Dan: I bet there's loads of other neighborly moments on TV and film that we haven't

Cris: Oh, I've got one. Can I, can I say one quickly that, that film that we, I just remember now that film that we did with Chris Pine looking unbelievably handsome and Harry Styles.

Sidey: Oh, yeah.

Reegs: yeah. Don't worry darling

Sidey: Don't, don't

Cris: they were old neighbors. They were all kind of in this,

Sidey: when we did the neighbor one? Yeah, right.

Cris: It was that utopian? Is that what it's called? Don't worry, darling. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Yes. No, good. I

just remember that when you talked about Chris Pine, he was smoking

Sidey: looks good, which

Dan: which reminded me of the, the greatest beer one ever. Remember that one as well? That was

Reegs: and he was his neighbor, wasn't he?

Yeah. Yeah. Zach Efron

in that. And he was in

Sidey: in bad neighbors.

Yeah. Which I didn't wanna mention because I haven't seen it,

Reegs: I've seen it. It's actually okay. I quite enjoyed

Dan: It's not too bad. You have seen that. Yeah.

Reegs: there's a second one, which I [00:29:00] haven't seen, neighbors. Two sorority rising

electric boogaloo. Yeah, I,

Sidey: I Title sounds

Dan: while you're ahead on one, but,

Sidey: so we need, we do need one other.

Cris: Yeah. So please let us know

Dan: where will it come from?

Cris: Send your mail, but via pigeons.

Sidey: Yeah,

Reegs: my neighbor tutorial.

Sidey: I mentioned this a couple weeks ago 'cause I watched it then.

Reegs: Yeah. And it had received a strong recommend online from Darren,

Sidey: Discord. Yeah. So hopes I could imagine we high going into this

Reegs: And I have been a fan of Tim Key for a little while. Mostly his collaborations with Steve Coogan.

He was in Saxon Dale and Mid-Morning Matters and a few other things. And he did the absolutely brilliant Tim Key's late night poetry program, which was with Tom Bain, right. playing music and selection of his like. Poetry, which it was similarly X-rated similarly like treads the line from Funny to Melancholy to everything in between.

Dan: And we've got friend of the pod, [00:30:00] Carrie Mulligan on there as well.

Yeah.

Sidey: Producer credit as well, I think. Yeah. Starts off with one of my favorite things, a record needle. Does it not? Put the needle on the record and we are gonna see quite a few shots of his favorite bands

Reegs: Maguire Mortimer.

Sidey: Yeah. He's obviously really into them.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. He, big time into him. He's got the CDs, he is, got the vinyl, he is got the cassettes. He's got the, he's a super

Reegs: maroon cardigan with a whale emblazoned across the back down is what he's also got as well. He's super fan. Charles Heath. Yeah. And he well, at the same time as we see all this, there's a, there's a boat approaching an

Dan: And it is a musician, it's Herb McGuire formerly part of Rock Folk Duo McGuire and Mortimer. And he's been invited to the island to, to play.

Reegs: And this is Tom

Bain as well. Did afterlife was the really the thing. I first like took notice of

Sidey: the only thing I've seen him. in

Reegs: I looked back through his back catalog today and I had [00:31:00] seen him in quite a few other things.

I hadn't seen Plebs, which he wrote, directed and created. But he has appeared in lots of other stuff actually

Dan: afterlife, he was Rick Eva's brother-in-law, wasn't he?

Reegs: Yes, that's right. Yeah.

Dan: In, in the

Reegs: the editor at the paper.

Dan: paper at the editor of the paper. And so he's been invited to the island and it's, it's a bit of a slow start. So I watched this with Nelly and Janna, and I was getting a few sideways glances at this. Early part of the film thinking, oh, 'cause neither of them wanted to sit and watch a film.

And I said, come on, we haven't sat and watched a film for ages together. This one, PG 13. It was like hitting the right age, appropriate

Sidey: I didn't necessarily find it that slow, the intro, but anyway, like I say,

Dan: well, I did neither,

Sidey: there's a boat, there's a boat approaching and they had this kind of awkward meets first meet where there's no way to get off the boat.

way to

there's not, there's no jetty or anything like that. You just have to get into

Dan: it's more of a natural harbor.

Reegs: Heath? Yeah. It is Natural Harbor. He's standing like in three quarters of, up to his waist, almost in, in [00:32:00] water.

Sidey: Charles has got waders on. Yeah. And he's trying to take the, inevitably he falls in,

Dan: Yeah. Everything gets wet. And so they go to the,

Sidey: so this is where he starts doing his fucking brilliant one-liner and he goes, he said, the table's like, well, I wanna get, I wanna get changed because I'm

Reegs: drenched.

Sidey: He goes, oh, Dame Judy.

Dan: Yeah. He's

Reegs: of a sort of constant nervous chatter, essentially. He, like, there's never a silence with this character

around

Sidey: he, he first takes him in, he says, oh, can we just go back to the hotel?

And he goes,

Reegs: Here it is. Wallace Lodge,

Sidey: the

Reegs: hotel in Orbit. Name and amenities. First

Sidey: And the first thing he does when he takes him in, he opens this big fucking safe door. Yeah. And there's just two suitcases in there. Yeah. And he brings one out. Don doesn't say anything and just puts on the table, makes him himself a cup of tea.

And then he just says, right, should we get to the awkward part about money? And he just opens, it's like fucking pub fiction. He just opens a suitcase. I mean, you just see his face react. Fucking enormous stack of

Dan: 500 grand in there.

And he, he

Reegs: He goes his 50 quid for you now and the other [00:33:00] 499,950 at the end

Dan: After. Is that okay?

Reegs: the gig?

You know,

Sidey: And you know, he's obviously said that what's happened is he has invited his favorite musician at this point over to the island to perform a gig. For some people

Dan: for less than a

Sidey: are they gonna be? And he goes, well, it's not gonna be quite like Glasto, probably less than a hundred.

Yeah. That's what he says to

Reegs: it does say that to him. And off the, off the bat, Tom Bain's character, her McGuire is kind of guarded and grumpy and kind of cynical and you know, clearly just in it for a payday.

And we'll find out why, because he's got his own sort of thing going on. He is got a burgeoning solo career, but it's a bit ridiculous really what he's being

Dan: he's going very mainstream from his rock and folk roots which he got all this kind of fame for and these fans for.

Reegs: He hopes to sort of relaunch himself as this like new modern pop

Dan: Yeah. He's trying to, he's,

Reegs: And he, and he's using this gig to fund that.

Dan: His phone's got wet [00:34:00] though as he fell out the boat. So he goes down to the local village shop to get some rice because that will dry it out. Although

Sidey: We know that's not true.

Dan: We, we know that's, well certainly rice pudding is all that. He gets down there and offered and he says at one point and then he goes well why is putting my dirt not with that attitude? He won't just yourself

Reegs: shop never has what you need and the things that you are offered instead are so bizarre. At one point later, Kerry Mulligan's gonna ask for Reese's Peanut butter cups and she's gonna get handed a jar of. Butter, peanut

Sidey: and a cup.

Dan: Yeah. And they, they're also well, they've never heard of it. They also give him change for the phone and they give him, he goes, oh, you changed that. And he's only got the 50 pound note that he got earlier. So then he's got, for the entire film, he's got a bag of 20 Ps.

'cause they've changed the entire 50 pound. Yeah.

Sidey: Eight. They're, they're having this conversation and he has the, a few more of these one nines that are just making me fucking laugh. But he does say, look, where did you get all [00:35:00] this fucking money from?

Like, what'd you do? You banker her? Or, you know, because it

Reegs: oil mag, that's when the things he says he does, like he starts to get jitters about it. I dunno if I really wanna be the corporate play thing of a wealthy

Sidey: a, I was a nurse. He is like. It doesn't add up. And how'd you get the money? And he just like points at the thing on the wall.

It's a lottery ticket. Yeah. And he's like, well, I played the, played the lottery one, you know, and then he, he explains, you know, what happened to the money? You know, he, oh, well we, we went traveling. We spent it, we, we, we did this. We went here. We went there. And he is like, we, because he is obviously living on his own.

And I, I wasn't trying to think too much into the film, I just wanted to see what

Reegs: happened. Yeah.

But

Sidey: someone was with him at some point. And

he goes, and then we got to such and such and yeah, and then

Dan: and we, we spent, oh, and

Sidey: goes, all right, but you've obviously got half a million in cash. He goes, oh, and he walks over and points to another

Reegs: ticket.

Okay.

Sidey: played it again. Won

Reegs: Won it again. Yeah. So he's like, oh, you played the lottery twice and won it twice. Like, yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: I said to, 'cause he is got the numbers then, hasn't he? On a thing. I say, I bet people are playing those numbers now, but it's loads of idiots.

Dan: You'll, you'll [00:36:00] share that with about 50,000 other people. But it was yeah, a funny moment where he's, it. Tells you where he is. Got all this, this money, he's got like a suit of armor and

just a really

Reegs: skis. I mean, it's a very eccentric like guy. And he does start to warn to him, herb a little bit. And, and they, their relationship starts to grow a little bit. But then Nell

Dan: yeah, the other half

Morton McGuire. Ne McGuire. McGuire.

Reegs: played by Carrie Mulligan,

Sidey: and her husband.

Reegs: She and her husband, yeah.

Cris: Harry McGuire.

Sidey: Yeah, Yeah. So that's her dad,

Reegs: which Herb is obviously completely unaware

Sidey: of.

It's blindsided him. Yeah.

Reegs: But then has to lie to Nell that he knew about it.

Dan: She says, you knew I was coming, didn't. He goes, yeah, yeah, of course he did. But you know, is it just, you know, going and playing our, our old stuff isn't that, she's going well, you know, and it turns out she can do with the money.

She was always the harmony of the, the [00:37:00] duo. They were very much lovers. So, and Cher type. Kind

Sidey: without

the wife being, I

Dan: think without the wife beating.

Reegs: More like I cantina

Sidey: probably.

Dan: Yeah, that's right. And things went south when

Sidey: well, they were in, they were in a relationship as well

Reegs: well as the band.

Sidey: and then he had made a solo record.

Reegs: There was a bit of unresolved tension about that. She was clearly a bit annoyed about, a

Sidey: bit

about that. Yeah. And then it deteriorated and they split up and they went their separate ways. She has now married, she's moved to America, married some guy who's a twitcher. Yeah. And she, she scratched the living by selling charney at Farmer's Market.

Reegs: Market. One thing that's really clever though, is the movie makes like really clear straight away that Michael and Nel are actually a really good couple and they love each other and there's lots of little shots where they run off holding hands and stuff like that.

So when inevitably herb like fucks it, fucks it up and thinks that there's something about getting the relationship back together,

Sidey: But they, they've

Reegs: like so obvious to you watching it that that's not the thing that happens. Like,

Sidey: yeah. 'cause they, they get rid of the husband. Right. He [00:38:00] goes off to see some puffins,

Reegs: Yeah. He goes

Sidey: So there is an opportunity for them to rekindle some kind of relationship,

Reegs: And they start by rehearsing. There's this magnificent scene where they, they get drunk in his kitchen and they suddenly get the guitar out and they start to rehearse and all

Dan: Which for Charles is just the most dreamy moment.

He can't believe it's worth all the money because they're playing a, a, a song that he and Marie,

Reegs: his wife.

Dan: his his wife, his partner who who'd passed on already, and we haven't

Sidey: They still, they still take a bit of time to tell you that though,

Dan: We, we, we don't really know, but as a viewer, you know, that

Sidey: said we enough

Dan: enough time is, is exactly, and he's just en rapture. He's their biggest fan. He just, they can do no wrong. He would be at the front of every cue for anything.

Sidey: still at this point.

Still to me watching it, my experience watching it was that he was just a fan vibing

Reegs: But they've already shown photos, haven't they?

Of his wife

Sidey: I probably was just oblivious to it.

Reegs: to it. I think they'd already shown

Dan: it was more, it was more the we that[00:39:00]

Sidey: because there's a particular song,

Reegs: there's, there's a few moments where the shot is of Tim Key's face as he reacts to, and he's like, it's a mixture of like

Sidey: well, they, what they do first is, is Kerry Morgan's now. Clocks that he fancies. The shopkeeper. Yeah, he's, he's got a connection with her already 'cause she's the only other person there.

And she's like, why don't you you know, make a move on her and, you know, tell her that you like her. And all of a sudden he is like really reticent to do that. Also get to see him play tennis, which is amazing,

Reegs: like seventies outfits.

Sidey: all he can do is surf

Reegs: Yeah. 'cause he's only ever surfed to himself. Yeah. Play

Dan: And he'd play alone. He, he does

Reegs: And he says to him, why don't you ask the shopkeeper to come and play? And he is like, come play. Like, I'm a kid. Like he is like, yeah,

Dan: he, he, he does always let it kind of slip that he's paying now.

Sidey: Yeah. She's getting 300 and he is getting five.

Dan: than than her for the gig.

And her, there's an argument that goes and he wants to leave the, the island in the morning and he's going, oh, don't, but what can I [00:40:00] do?

Sidey: Well, they figure out that the, it is the gig for one person. Yeah, that's what it, it says, you said it would be a hundred and he said no. I said it'd be less

Reegs: than a hundred. Yeah,

Dan: It's just you, is it Charlie?

Sidey: So that, that I, him, he is like, it's weird now. This just feels really weird. And then like you said, Riggs, inevitably he fucks it up by thinking that he can get back with her.

Yeah. Because. Performing the music and he feels the connection, but she's like, no, we're just

Reegs: And also it's just, you know, he's mistaking nostalgia for something else and she's like completely moved on with her life.

Sidey: And she, she says to him, I'm fucking pregnant. Like, you know, and he is like, oh fuck.

Reegs: And it's been a terrific scene. I dunno if we've come up to It's with the lanterns. Yeah. That's the bit, that's the bit where Tim, where you look at Tim Key's face and he's like really loving it.

And you can also see the pain etched on there of Marie not being there. And then they release these lanterns into the, into the air and like. They've all written something private on it. And then Tom Bain's character becomes kind of obsessed in a way with finding out what was on it to validate his feelings of

Sidey: Well, he thinks he knows, [00:41:00] but he he is projecting. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: in the end he actually finds Charles Lanin.

Reegs: Oh man, I was, this got me.

Dan: And well I, I've turned around, around this point and both Janna and Nelly are just like tears streaming down. They've looked at me and go, you some kinda cyborg robot. How are you not crying?

Because it was a, a feels moment. And there's, there's more kind of arguments and it turns out that Nell has just had enough of herb and this vibe that he's sending off and she says, I'm leaving. As much as she needs the money and everything for this gig, she just can't stand the the vibe he's giving off.

And she leaves.

You thinking, well, she'll be back.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: I did think that she would come

Reegs: I did. And there's a very clever moment towards the end where they bring in her vocals as he remembers, and you think, oh, she's gonna walk round.

Sidey: gonna pop up. Might a rock.

Reegs: Yeah. And they didn't do it and it was great. It's

Sidey: better that they didn't,

Reegs: of course it was.

Dan: Because she doesn't come back. But [00:42:00] Herb does stay for the gig

Sidey: Well, it's great because he's, he's super depressed and she has criticized his shit, new music direction, where they've whitened his teeth and the artwork and all this.

Reegs: Yeah. And she's called him by his, or his name is not Herb McGuire. His name is Chris Pinner. And she's like,

Sidey: yeah,

Dan: Chris, yeah. Three

Reegs: brings him back to Earth a couple of times by calling him Chris.

Sidey: So, yeah. Tim Key's up on like the headland. Yeah. And he looks down as like original parent, parent moment. He thinks he's gonna drown himself.

Dan: No, no, don't do it. Yeah,

Sidey: off his clone.

He is just wearing like a t-shirt and his pants, whatever, and he goes out into, it's like, no, no. And that's where he finds the lantern and he reads the message on it. Charles is,

Dan: message to Marie

Sidey: how fucking significant this is for him and what it means

Dan: is five years tomorrow, isn't

Reegs: says, I'm with McGuire Mor Mortimer. It's perfect. I love you always.

Dan: Oh, don't say that again.

Yeah, it really does. And

Sidey: Well, he gets a, he gets a knock at the door, doesn't he? And it's, it is

Dan: well, he's, he's, he's, yeah, he's, he's, the gig's not happening until the,[00:43:00]

Sidey: he finds that

Dan: the shop

Reegs: Did we say he's also had to save Tom Bain's?

Herb has also had to save Thingy's life. Yeah.

Dan: what we saying?

Yeah. And she's the shopkeeper's turned up and she's got. Poster or an in invitation that he had kind of scribbled out the names

Sidey: Yeah. It's just her name's crossed out and it's

Dan: and she goes, what is, it's happening. It's happening. So there they are down on the beach

Reegs: To paraphrase the Beatles, there goes the sun.

Dan: Yeah. Yeah. Lo loads of, and, and Herb is. Playing his,

Sidey: fucking brilliant.

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: It's really, really great. And then you see,

Reegs: And, and he plays all the stuff that he said he wouldn't play from the early album, the song that was just for him. And

Sidey: oh man, he plays one, the song at the end of the

Dan: I'll never play this again.

Okay.

Sidey: I'll never play this one against, I hope you are listening room.

You fucking go now. And you just see Tim Pleases face and you can see what it means to him. It's fucking brilliant. Really, really brilliant.

Reegs: much written on his face. There's a bit of joy, there's loads of sadness, there's [00:44:00] everything going on there. And Tom Baard as well, is playing all the music and singing all his songs is

Dan: Yeah, he's

Sidey: really, really good.

Reegs: And that's the scene actually they bring in her vocals. And it's really actually because the process is after this gig, he leaves in the morning. There's, you think he's taken the money because Tim Key's character wants to give it to him, but he's left it

Dan: also

Reegs: And he's left the guitar that, and he's signed it.

What does he say?

Sidey: Your biggest

Reegs: Your biggest fan. Your biggest fan, Chris. And, you know, obviously symbolizing that he's now been able to move on now, let the past go.

Dan: And, and also he's given the money. To Nell. Yeah. And, and said to the husband oh no, we did the gig. We did it a couple of days early. So just saving everybody's face in that the money's not important to him.

It was just a case of he wanted

Reegs: Oh, well, because happy the husband kind of comes to him and says, you know, he's the one who says, look, she nels way too proud to ask you this. And you can imagine what difficult thing it is for him to have to do in this scenario to go and say, we need that money. So yeah, it was nice, really nice.

Dan: [00:45:00] And yeah, then it,

Reegs: And just a little bit of hope. He was, we'd seen him playing with a swing ball, hadn't we, by himself. And then she turns up

Sidey: with the racket. Yeah.

Dan: yeah. The, the shopkeeper turns up with a, a racket and says, do you wanna play? And you hope that they. Gonna

Reegs: herb is also gonna maybe move on a bit as well.

Dan: At this point, both Yana and Nelly are just like getting through the tissues. They're, they're just s sniffling, snorting wrecks of and I said, I told you it was a good one. Like, you know, I thought it'd be a, and I loved this. I thought this was

just

Sidey: well the credits role. And he plays the, that song and he, he says, right, take one.

And that's the, that song, his

Reegs: the Ballad of Wallis

Sidey: Return Batches Roots. And the song is The Ballad of all the Sign.

Dan: Yeah. Yeah. So it does so it maybe Ballard of Wallis Island too. Probably not, it's not that kind of film. But this was my kind of film. I really enjoyed it. It was that melancholy comedy.

The acting was, was [00:46:00] superb. You really did. Feel with the, the actors through their pains and and they just got across the, the meaning of their moments in, in different films, whether it be Charles, whether it be Herb

Reegs: In many ways it's sort of herb's film. Yeah. He's the one who undergoes the most growth throughout it, and changes

Dan: they, they all do. Yeah. It really changes across that, you know, and, and there's some real clarity and black and white moments for him. The fact that she left and didn't come back even for this, that she knew, and, you know, Charles is, is very, is he's very, he's so sweet and very kind of happy.

Just wants to pe people to be happy, doesn't he? He just wants people to, you know, the money is nothing to him. It's. There you go.

Sidey: Just do it. Just do the lottery again and win it

Dan: yeah, why not

Reegs: as simple as that.

Dan: lucky,

Sidey: But it's, it has some moments, you know, LA proper. Laugh out loud. I fucking howled with some of the stupid shit that he says. Yeah. And then it just like fucking volleys you in the stern with some [00:47:00] like proper heart wrenching stuff where he is lost, you know, his love his life.

Yeah. And then it just brings it back with this like amazing musical performance at the end.

Reegs: and it's like, yeah. 'cause it has like all those sort of ingredients of like a feel good movie, but with like a very adult sensibility around it as well. So it's like not, you

Sidey: it could, you know, it could have if it hadn't been done right, be like really overly sentimental and shit.

And it's not like that.

Reegs: that.

Dan: No.

it

Reegs: Every time it makes, but it's also not bleak or anything. Like, it leaves you feeling hopeful and

Dan: it didn't lean into any emotion too much that spoiled the film.

Like not too bleak, not too overly sentimental. It just hit a real sweet spot. And if you haven't seen it, it's a strong

Sidey: oh, it's a really strong,

Dan: Well, okay, so it's another wonderful week of w casting over

Sidey: Riggs to nominate, I think for next week. Is it? I think so, yeah.

Dan: Okay. So I've gotta get my big boy pants on again 'cause I reckon there's gonna be something Scary.

Rings has got a Halloween. No, not got, not that vibe coming up.

I know what you like.[00:48:00]

Yeah, we'll see. Stay tuned.

Reegs: Although Halloween's quite

Cris: I'm away next week though.

Sidey: Oh yeah, you're in west Water, aren't you?

Reegs: Are you in West War?

Sidey: yeah. Rome, you in Rome, aren't you? Yes. Yeah.

Cris: Is that what it's called?

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: it is. They voted,

Dan: They've changed it now.

Reegs: changed it. Its look on the news.

Cris: Yeah.

I'm, I'm moving into the Vatican for a few days.

Sidey: Okay.

Dan: Nice. Okay, well, there you go.

That could be the theme.

Sidey: Oh, we could do conclave.

Reegs: Oh yeah. Could conclave it

Dan: book.

Sidey: Well, all that remains is to say side something out.

Cris: Lot of

Reegs: res is gone.

Dan: Dan has also left the building and gone.