One Hour Photo & Press Gang

One Hour Photo

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dads Film Review, the podcast featuring a ragtag group of movie loving dads who've clawed their way back to the cinema after years of kiddie inflicted purgatory. On this week's photography themed episode, we'll be counting down the top five photos in movies because we thought, why not add yet more uninformed opinions to the endless void of the internet?

Then,

prepare yourself for the unsettling rollercoaster that is One Hour Photo, starring the late, great Robin Williams. Spoiler alert, it's less Mrs. Doubtfire and more psychological trauma. But wait, there's more. We'll wrap things up with a look back at 80s teen drama Press Gang. Just a quick heads up, we're not your run of the mill PG rated podcast.

Profanity is our love language and spoilers are our secret sauce. So if you're faint of heart or terrified of cinematic revelations, you might want to hit pause, go watch everything we're about to ruin for you, and come back when you've grown a thicker skin. Other than that, there's just this week's cast of Dads to meet, starting with the man who's responsible for this whole mess so it's his fault, really, Sidey a man of many interests, as you guys know, and you're branching out with a new podcast, aren't you?

Devoted entirely to the frustration of the dial up internet era each week playing the iconic shrieking sound of a noughties modem for an hour in your new podcast, Lan Before Time. That's right, isn't

Sidey: That's right, Yeah.

Reegs: And we also have elder statesman Dan, a man so smart that earlier this evening he solved the Rubik's Cube just with a hammer.

And we have the Romanian Rhapsody Sleeping Beauty himself, Chris.

Regular listeners will know that Chris has been practising his movie impressions for us. This week you've outdone yourself, really, haven't you? He's going to give us live, right now, no sound effects, the blaring horns from the Inception trailer.

Let's hear it, Chris,

Sidey: fantastic, it's

Reegs: That is fantastic, and

loud! How

Dan: out of that, yeah.

Reegs: does he do that with his mouth? It's incredible.

Sidey: It's incredible.

Reegs: LAUGHS

Sidey: that.

Cris: Good luck.

Reegs: And there's also me, Reeves. Hello. G'day.

Sidey: Hello.

Dan: Hello. Been watching anything?

Oh,

Reegs: Haunting of

Hill House, we watched that, that was pretty

Dan: Haunting of Hill House.

Reegs: Mike Flanagan's one, so after watching his most recent one, which was The Fall of the House of Usher, we went back to watch that one again as well. So that was great, his Netflix horror series, they're great. Highly recommended.

Dan: Hmm. No, not heard of any of those. I watched Deadpool again this week. And I did watch Inside with Nellie. This, this film. Too Good, Too Bad, I think it was called. It's like a Christmas film. I'll find out the name for next week. It was decent. It was actually quite

Reegs: We might need to do a Christmas episode soon.

so.

Sidey: Very much so. Maybe just do a Christmas episode from now until

it hits. We watched The Nice Guys, the Ryan Gosling Russell Crowe masterpiece. that

Dan: Been revisiting

Sidey: yeah. and we watched, although disgruntled, because we watched two thirds of the BFG yesterday, and those fuckers finished it off today without me.

Reegs: Yeah, you really missed the mark.

Sidey: He really missed the

mark

with that one.

But it's okay. It's alright. my daughter

Dan: Went to the cinema to watch it. Yeah? Yeah. Disappointing.

Sidey: Books better?

Dan: Yeah. Book's way better.

Reegs: That's right, it might

Sidey: Chris, did

Dan: been, yeah. But it was a good

Sidey: well, I

Cris: watch, well, I made an attempt at two movies, but I haven't finished them. I tried to watch Lansky. It's on Netflix with Harvey Keitel and Some other guy, actor, I can't, I can tell you what his name is, but no, I'm just going to start the movie. Some other guy, actor, you would know him.

I can't really tell you in which movie. He's famous, I could, he's, you've seen

Dan: famous actor, he was

Cris: Yeah, I can't, I can't remember which, what his name was. And I've, well, we tried to watch a movie called blended, uh, with Adam

Reegs: Adam Sandler I think i've seen that one. True barrymore is it

Cris: Yes. Yeah. And I couldn't watch

Reegs: No,

Sidey: Well, hang on. don't, don't, don't give it a kicking, because one listener will get very upset.

Reegs: I think it's probably awful but I have seen it

Cris: I don't know, they're like two They go on a first date, and he takes her to Hooters.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Nothing. One the Hooters.

Cris: Yeah, anyway, and they find out they have kids, and I've only seen the Somehow, I can't remember

Reegs: holiday, they win a holiday to South Africa or

Cris: something, Yeah, but this is I really got annoyed, because in typical American fashion, and I don't want to offend anyone here, but They said, we're going to Africa.

It's not, they didn't go to Uganda. They didn't go to Chad. They didn't go to Angola. They went to Africa. As if you're going, where are you going? Are you going to Brussels? Are you going to Stoke? Because Europe is kind of the same thing. You know, we could go to Mali or

Sidey: diverse. Yeah,

Cris: Yeah, it's a big continent, and you can fit America twice in the whole continent of Africa.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: So, as soon as I've seen that, I was like, this is, I'm

Reegs: You're out.

If it had been set in the Congo or Botswana

or any

Cris: exactly,

tell me where you're going.

Sidey: I didn't know that they'd done more. That's at least three Adam son Drew Barrymore

Reegs: about 51st dates. Wedding singer. Wedding singer and that one. Yeah. They've got chemistry. You can't

Sidey: can't deny

Dan: can.

Cris: chemistry, I dunno. I, I'd had to switch off the

I,

Dan: Yeah, I'm denying it. Yeah, I'm with you, Chris. I'm not into any of their

Sidey: come off it. The wedding singer, that's

beyond,

Cris: I've not watched that,

Dan: makes

Cris: tell you. It's good.

Sidey: It's very

good.

Dan: Yeah, it doesn't

Sidey: Oh, Did

you watch, sorry, just to dip back into the

The midweek episode Pekka, did you watch that with

your missus? Yes. How did she get on it?

Cris: she react? She, she actually looked at me and honestly she was

Sidey: like,

Cris: Who the fuck picked this and why? And then at the end of the movie she's like, Surely there's better movies than

Sidey: I don't think there are.

Cris: Why? And honestly, that's what she gets turned around. She's like, surely there's better movies than this. Why does he pick that ? I was like, listen, I dunno. He's got photography in it, so

Sidey: so.

Dan: tea bagging in it.

Cris: you get it.

Sidey: Yeah. So,

Cris: sorry. None of us is clever enough to understand the nuance

Sidey: nuance I don't think it was particularly nuanced. We

had a top 5 last week, and that was Bond Vehicles and Gadgets.

But I think we covered everything

off.

Reegs: up. Yeah, I, we should have Beavis nomination of the Seagull. On Connery's head from whichever movie that was from.

Cris: Was it not a

Sidey: Goldfinger.

Reegs: It

was not a duck, no, It was

a seagull.

Sidey: Goldfinger, that one.

Cris: Okay.

Sidey: So that's

Dan: We've had a couple

of

Sidey: We've had a couple of belters for this week's Top 5 so I'm keen to just get

stuck in.

Reegs: Alright, well let's do it.

Dan: So,

top five.

Sidey: Top five.

Reegs: you much of a photographer? No. Because everyone's got a camera these

Sidey: I get a lot of grief about not taking enough photos of

The family and The stuff that we do.

I'd rather

just

live you know,

in

the moment.

Reegs: you got a selfie stick?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: They're for cunts though, aren't they?

Let's be honest.

Sidey: Yeah.

but it's also quite fun.

Cris: the telescope thing? Yeah. Have you ever used it?

Sidey: it's lost at the moment, but yeah, we do use it if we go out, yeah.

Reegs: Wow. Geez.

Cris: If you go on holiday and stuff, right? Not just, I don't know, we're going to

Sidey: No, not if I'm

Reegs: that would be like

Sidey: Yeah, that would be, like, an event.

I've also got a GoPro with

1. It has its own selfie stick as

Reegs: as

well. Wow, Ah, I just

Sidey: I still would say

Reegs: like a huge narcissist to want to like

Cris: I hope you go to Africa,

and you get raped by

Sidey: Where?

Cris: Well, no, Africa.

Sidey: ha, ha.

Cris: said that

Sidey: we should all be sat here filming with selfie

Reegs: sticks.

Sidey: Yeah.

of stuff. The

the Insta360

action camera has its own selfie stick, which is intelligent, so when you're filming yourself with it, it automatically erases the stick from the thing.

Cris: Right, I've seen that on the

Sidey: internet. That's

pretty

cool. that's

Reegs: That is pretty

rad. Yeah,

Cris: well done. Can they erase your face?

Sidey: No.

But what

we're talking about here is the top five. Originally was photographs, in movies or TV, but also we were sort of expanded out to be photographers, or photography.

Reegs: Anything's got the word

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So,

Reegs: You got some photosynthesis for us, Dan?

Dan: Dan? I don't, no. But,

Sidey: don't, you set the ball rolling down Because I know you're a bit light on notes.

Cris: Yeah, I'm a bit light on notes, to be fair.

Dan: The one that came to my mind when I thought of this was Bridges of Madison County. Have you ever seen that film?

Sidey: film? No, I

haven't, but We have discussed this before. It's about where Clint is exposed as a hideous pervert

Taking photos of people.

Dan: Of bridges. He's taking photos of bridges for National Geographic. And he, he strolls in on this town.

Sidey: Oh,

Dan: not much going on, beautiful. And it's Meryl Streep. She's in this house where he goes to ask for directions. And her husband and kids are out of town. And they've

Reegs: seen this

Dan: movie?

Cris: Yeah, I've seen it

Dan: She's been with her husband who the romance is all gone and everything from their lives they just kind of exist together and she's with him for the kids as much as anything else and she has this chance of love with this photographer Clint Eastwood who also feels the same he's always been alone since Years and years and they have this they have this this connection I don't it didn't really give off serial killer vibes, but you never know.

You never know but the The the story was obviously a really famous book and it was a really decent film as well Yeah, and that'll open up for me. I think quite well going

go and challenge that for a better photography movie

Sidey: Okay.

Cris: I don't

know if this counts, but in Nightcrawler, the guy is wearing a camera.

He has a camera all the time with him. Does that

Dan: count? Yeah, Oh,

Cris: Does

Reegs: well yeah,

Cris: Well, I mean, he's videoing though. Is that,

Reegs: Yeah, he

takes photos as well, yeah, I don't think we have to be that strict with it, yeah,

Cris: I don't know. I just thought if I'm allowed, I can put that. If not,

Sidey: course you can put that, that's also Segways, it's our most successful episode ever.

Reegs: Yeah, by a biggajillion downloads. What? the Nightcrawler? Yeah.

Cris: Okay, I mean, to be fair, do you know what? I have to say this, I worked with a guy that looked exactly like that guy, like, not like Jay Gyllenhaal, but like Jay Gyllenhaal in that movie, with that look, like that weird kind of,

Sidey: oh, we went to school with someone who was very similar as well, I would say

Cris: honestly.

that

guy, I worked with this guy, he's only a young lad, and he was on every drug known to man, like, but the legal ones, and he would take a week off, and then he would come on his, like, he would, oh, I'm not really well, he'd go to the doctor, and then he would get like, I don't know, a backpack full of pills.

And then he, honestly, it was amazing. And he looked exactly like this guy. I don't know if that makes

Reegs: It was a pretty good movie, that's what I remember, Dennis Villeneuve, Denny, Denny Villeneuve I enjoyed that

Dan: that one.

Sidey: and we also just rack our Brains periodically about why that episode is, so much more downloaded

Reegs: you put Twirly Woos into Spotify, I think that's the first thing that comes up, it's quite

Sidey: It's the kids thing, that's more popular, yeah.

Riggs?

Reegs: Well, blah, blah. Should have probably been a bit more prepared than this. A good bit of inadvertent racism in Crocodile Dundee is when the guy's like, oh, you know, you can't take my photograph. And what's her name? She's an absolute smoke show. PaUl Hogan married her as well.

Yeah, mrs. Hogan. Yeah

And she said, oh, I'm sorry, you think it's gonna take your spirit away? And he's like, no, you've got the lens cap on.

Sidey: cap. And

also a

Reegs: And also a movie that I don't reckon we've ever talked about on the pod before. Sky Captain in the world of Tomorrow. You ever seen that? The Jude Law Green

Dan: It was a green screen thing.

Reegs: homage thing the, the girl has only got two frames left on her roll of film throughout the movie and is deciding what to take photos of, is saving them.

One time she shoots the ground as she's running away,

Sidey: You obviously got to do, like, down the trousers.

Reegs: Yeah, and the last one she does with a lens cap on as well. So, they're quite annoying. What about back to the future? That's a pretty famous photo. Let's talk about that one. That's the photo that he uses as evidence. He's falling out of time.

Sidey: barometer of how,

Dan: to go.

Sidey: he's got to go.

Dan: of the plot, yeah.

Okay, nice.

Sidey: Yeah, It's, it's classic.

Reegs: classic. And number three is the photo with the Yeah, that's a trifecta.

Sidey: is the photo with

Reegs: about the I guess

Sidey: That's, that's a trifecta. What about the, I guess it's similar in a way to

The Back to Future on rigs of Photos that are altered to for memory.

I've got Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless

mind.

Where they

have all those great practical effects, but they also like remove the memories, blah, blah, blah.

But the one that, the first one I thought of was Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part one.

But they know they're all at risk and, what's his face? Tom Riddle. hell, I can't think of his name.

The villain Voldemort is back, and they know they're at risk, and so, Hermione has to, erase, she decides to erase her memory from her parents, with an obliviate spell, and all the family photos in the shot, they

all she disappears from them all and They no longer know who

she is, so they can't give her up or tell any information to anyone. and Blah skid row.

Dan: Mmm. At the beginning of the year, I was in Cambodia and There was obviously a film around the time then the Killing Fields

Sidey: It's a real

chuckle fest.

Dan: a real, yeah, a real chuckle fest.

You've got it's all about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. And a Cambodian guy called Dith Pran, who stays on as as a journalist. And the New York Times have been in there and their reporters are there. John Malkovich is He plays a guy, Al, Al someone,

Sidey: Al Malkovich.

Dan: Al Malkovich and he's the photographer um, as they're being like taken by the Khmer Rouge and people are just being shot in the street.

They're foreigners and,

Sidey: Any kind of intellectuals or anything?

Dan: Yeah, and this was, this was right at the, They're storming, like, Phnom Penh, so, it was, they were held up against the wall and people were being shot, like, next, and they thought they were next, and the camera was part of that, you know, getting shots and everything, getting, getting evidence that would take it back, but it was Dith Pran, this sort of Cambodian guy who ended up getting this evidence in his story but yeah, Grizzly, but a really good movie.

Cris: I've got a movie called Filth with Jason, is it Jason?

Reegs: Is that the, Jason McAvoy.

Dan: Yeah.

Cris: And he,

Reegs: What's his name? Ervin Welsh.

Dan: Irving Welsh's.

Cris: he Has a Christmas party at his work and he takes a Xerox copy of his penis,

Dan: He's a policeman,

Cris: then he, or yeah, he's a policeman and then he, but he he enlarges the photo and one of his colleagues sees, and he, I can't remember exactly how, but obviously it looks like a.

like a massive penis and he just shows it just like oh my god i don't know how it happened but he shows the picture to his colleague who she he overheard her saying that she likes people like men with that have big dicks and then he ends up having sex with her at the christmas party but you can see her face going up not

yeah what what happened here

Dan: it is um, it's funny because it is, it's set at the Christmas party and in the book it's all the guys have been talked into doing it.

And he actually finishes second and he goes, I can't fucking believe it. Like, you know, I blew up four

Reegs: and

Dan: still finished second to that guy.

Reegs: in So

Cris: So yeah, I thought that was that was quite, quite a good, a good one. And he he actually, it doesn't show his penis, but it shows the enlarged. Kind of Xerox copy, so

Dan: oh, it's a penis

Cris: anyone wants to see

Dan: There

Reegs: Of course, yeah, I definitely want to see that, yeah. Twelve monkeys. She's giving a lecture at the beginning on the psychology of doomsday predictions and she pulls up a photo of a World War I soldier in a trench who claimed to be a time traveller from the future and when they zoom in you see that it's Bruce Willis character and we're actually going to see that photo being taken later but earlier in time in the movie.

Pretty cool. Final Destination 3 was the one with the rollercoaster. You seen that one? And they take photos on the roller coaster as it goes round and as they come out, like, there's a blur on each of the

Dan: Oh, right.

Yeah. Yeah

Reegs: something about how they're gonna die and blah, blah, blah.

Dan: next?

Reegs: Who Framed Roger Rabbit has Eddie Valiant initiating the plot by going off to get saucy photos, really,

Sidey: right, yeah, yeah.

Reegs: He's sleazing it up real nice to get photos of Jessica cheating. With Marvin.

Sidey: That's right.

Reegs: So, that's, yeah.

Sidey: Side? I can't believe we've come this far without mentioning

Memento. It's obviously key to the plot. He's got no memory. So he's relying on Polaroids and tattoos. And he's annotating the Polaroids with what he needs to see. I'll say no more,

because I've spoiled it before, but Chris, I still think you've not seen it,

Dan: Chris said to do it. I've never watched

Sidey: Yeah, it's right up your alley.

Cris: I've not watched any of them.

Sidey: But this is an all time

great. It's

Cris: is Home and Away?

Dan: Away?

It's the

Reegs: It's the Neighbours of

Sidey: that came before

Cris: TV show?

Sidey: was 1 and then

at 1. 25

Neighbours

Reegs: 30. Five 30 and six Or was it or something? Five 30 and

Sidey: it? Isla Fisher was in Home and Away This is not

Dan: And Guy Pearce was in

Sidey: He had a biker

Dan: Yeah, he was in Neighbours, yeah

Cris: yeah.

Sidey: But

he's the start of Memento.

I don't know which one you would say is the strongest performance, but the film Memento is excellent. And it's a key

plot device.

Cris: That's what it's all about. I

Sidey: Just about to spoil

it, but

Cris: I'll

Sidey: won't. I have before, but I think you've forgotten what I said.

Dan: but

Cris: yeah.

Dan: sort of forgotten what it is. In rear window Alfred Hitchcock

Reegs: It's got the word cock in it.

Sidey: Mm.

Dan: and he's he's broken.

He's a broken leg and he's laid up.

He just wants to start taking photographs. So he's brought this kind of camera and he, he begins to suspect there's a murder over the street.

Reegs: He Grace Kelly,

Dan: Grace Kelly comes to Pop in and out. Yeah, it's his girlfriend and there's a nurse as well

Reegs: He sees a bloke going in and out, like carrying all sorts of suspicious looking shit, doesn't

Dan: Yeah And digging under the the roses and things and they're they're convinced and of course, he can't go anywhere He's just trapped all the time and he's able just to put such

What's gonna happen next intention into, into

Reegs: sends over his nurse, I think, doesn't he? And he's watching her from the other side.

They memorably take it off in The Simpsons

Dan: then he comes back like earlier than he normally does. 'cause he goes at this time and, you know, but he's, and is he gonna get caught? Is she gonna get caught on the other side? He's trying to get a message across. And and it, yeah, it turns out actually there's, there's a couple of red herrings in and everything.

Yeah, it's a good one.

Cris: I know you mentioned it off air, but it's one of the last two that I had written down for my short list is should add that there was the city of God, which is obviously the story of the two kids that one of them becomes a gangster.

The other one becomes a

Reegs: Rocket,

I think his name

Cris: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, it's a, it's a, I mean, I don't know if I have to get into all the details, but that's, I think it's one of my favorite films as well.

Reegs: Yeah, it's a series of vinaigrettes, I think, as you once memorably

Dan: Yeah, well, maybe but it's yeah, I mean, it's in the slums of Brazil, and it's

Cris: And it's loosely based on a real story, apparently.

Reegs: Well, he's the guy Rocket, the main charact, his story, you know, he is a real guy and this is kind of his

Dan: won Oscars for that movie, yeah.

Reegs: Good one, good one. Me? Stranger Things, Jonathan Byers, conveniently for the first season of Stranger Things, was obsessed by photography, so he could get a shot of Barb, and then I don't think they really mentioned it again.

Sidey: for Barb.

Reegs: Yeah Kate in gremlins. What's her name?

Sidey: Phoebe

Cates?

Reegs: she is using a camera and

Sidey: Oh, bright light, bright light, yeah, yeah.

Reegs: There's an episode of quantum leap where Sam is impersonating a blind person and Had a reporter takes photo of him and wouldn't you believe it actually actually blinds him.

So he's actually

partial

Dan: for real.

Reegs: yeah

Sidey: Have you watched any of the reboot of that?

Reegs: I tried watching the first one. I, well, I just,

Sidey: not the

Reegs: I

quite, it was okay, but it's like,

Sidey: not Scott Bakula.

Dan: No, I was just so into that. Can you remember Manimal? Yeah,

Reegs: I can remember that. I'll remember, I'll remember that right now if

Sidey: I'm like Patty and Selma with Manimal.

Dan: yeah.

Okay. Yeah.

Reegs: TErminator. Carl Rees has got a photo of Sarah Connor

Sidey: Oh, of course,

Reegs: the movie that he's been, I assume, like, jacking off to throughout the long, cold nights. Calendar Girls was a movie

Sidey: old women,

Reegs: old women having photos taken of them. It was really good, wasn't it? Judi Dench

Sidey: Maggie Smith, all the, all of those

Reegs: Yeah, and I think later adapted into a stage play.

Sidey: Marin probably in there. I

Reegs: think so. And I had another one that I desperately wanted to talk about. Oh, King Ralph.

Remember that

Dan: Yeah,

Reegs: Goodman, The

whole point, the

Sidey: Oh, they all died.

Reegs: off. They all die in a photo. The entire

royal family die in a photo.

Sidey: photo.

That's right,

Yeah,

Reegs: so that's him.

John Goodman becomes the only heir to the throne.

Sidey: well. won't say too much, but obviously this is a photo themed week, so our two movies that we're talking about this week, Pekka is obviously takes a million photos in that, and our main one this week is about a creepy

Reegs: about a creepy

Sidey: Yep. We'll say no more. The Simpsons, that we mentioned, the rear window takeoff, there's also one where Bart has misbehaved at school, and he has to then help Principal Skinner track what his he's doing like the sky at night, He's got a camera and he's like. And That's a telescope,

isn't

it?

Reegs: that's the telescope,

Dan: Mm-Hmm.

Sidey: Fuck that off. But what, I do have for the Simpsons is all the Kent Brockman stock photos of Homer doing stuff. Or there's the one with his mouth. He's got

about 300

Reegs: 6 of them out of his mouth.

Sidey: that's from Marge versus the monorail. There's one, this is chief Wiggum and that's how a Hippo was made.

police chief and

it's Wiggum and a Hippo.

There's the one with Homer with his tongue frozen to a lamppost? There's one with Homer, and he's lost his trousers to a gorilla and he's like

Reegs: got his glasses on fire, and he's

Sidey: And there's another one with Homer and his ass is on fire, and he's just running around the street.

And there's like a million more of

Reegs: yeah.

so all

Sidey: So all of those.

Dan: Perfect. How are we gonna whittle it down?

Sidey: we'll, going straight over to

Reegs: said we've had one of the best nominations we've ever had.

Sidey: it's one of my favorites.

Let's

just keep it, at that. well, let's go to the other ones.

So ones, no, the obvious ones that we've had, we've mentioned it's night. Darren Lety says, The obvious one, Marty's family photo and Back to the Future, um, as he Almost ends up being an accidental, literal, mother

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: it's not because it wasn't his mother at the time.

Reegs: It's still,

Sidey: It's not. And and then down if he also mentioned Austin Powers. The cover story was that he

was A

photographer

in swinging London in the 60s. And Breachy, this one, is so good. It's the room and Tommy Wiseau, he's sort of sitting like, like casually reclining

in front of a table and there's three framed photographs Of spoons.

Reegs: Wow. Spoons, yeah.

Sidey: If you go on the discord, you

can see It, It's Amazing. It's absolutely

Reegs: gotta go

Sidey: That's in. We

don't need any more contributions that's in I'm just going to go straight in with Memento.

Reegs: Oh, nice. Oh, I'm gonna go with one of my favourite tropes, which is when a character kisses a photo before they die, done memorably by the pilot Randy Quaid in Independence Day before he careers his plane into the ship, but also done in the Neil, I was gonna say Armstrong but that's not right, I can't remember his

goddamn

Sidey: Foles, the snooker player?

Reegs: the Dog Soldiers,

you

Sidey: Oh,

okay, yeah.

Reegs: Good little British werewolf horror movie,

Sidey: werewolf horror

Reegs: his, no, it's Neil.

Sidey: Neil Neil orange

Peel

Cris: Neil Diamond,

Reegs: Neil yes. They're all of those people. It was Neil, Diamond, Orangefield.

Dan: It's killing fields for

Sidey: Yeah, it's a good one.

And then

Chris?

Cris: I should add to those.

Reegs: Yeah.

be.

That's all five in, so what, when we, next week, we'll have to, that's it then, we won't be

Dan: We might do a six.

Reegs: six. Let's find, let's tune in and find out.

Dan: We can say what we like about Pete.

Sidey: there's

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: No.

Cris: I like a lot of things about Pete.

Reegs: like it when he's not here.

Dan: here.

There you go, there's one. But the cheese selection does go drastically downhill when Pete's not here.

Sidey: No,

but we do have the remnants of his bag of sweets.

Dan: Yes, we do. Yeah, it is just remnants now because I've been through a lot of the best ones in there.

But we've been restocked.

Sidey: supplemented

that.

Dan: We've come big time with the sweets. We've got a massive bar of Toblerone.

Sidey: Yeah, we've got, well I've got a Toblerone,

a

bag of peanut M& M's and some M& M bar thingies. Joysticks, I think they're called.

Cris: something sticks.

Yeah.

Dan: And then we got two bags of really sour sweets.

There's a bar of galaxy chocolate in there as well. I mean, we've gone heavy

Sidey: Chris put some munchies,

some salted

caramel munchies. as

Reegs: Yeah,

Cris: munchies and some M& M's, the brown one,

Sidey: classic,

ones. yeah,

Cris: M& M's, yeah.

Sidey: So that is a lot. That's a lot of confectionery amongst four people. Yeah. And we put a

Reegs: We've done our best though

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Tonight we dine like kings. Yeah.

Sidey: And that segues really perfectly into our main feature this week, which is one hour

photo.

Reegs: I haven't

Sidey: I hadn't seen

this before. and I'm kinda on the fence with Robin Williams a lot of times. But I liked the idea of watching one of his. where He's not a zany wacky guy. More of a serious role.

And that's exactly what this is.

Dan: Yeah.

A hundred percent. You don't see any of that zas?

Sidey: this. No.

it's

really

Reegs: You don't see any of them saying any of this. role but it loses that in the years since, since we know much more about what a complex guy that he was and had his own demons and all that stuff. It makes it him easier to buy him as tortured in this than it maybe was shocking in the first time round.

But

Dan: Yeah, well I didn't watch it the first time round, so

Sidey: this is, your first time?

Dan: is my first time watching this movie

Sidey: Mine too.

Reegs: first And this was from director

Sidey: That's right, yeah. He

Reegs: He did Never Let Me Go, did you see that? The Kazuyo Ishiguro adaptation with Andrew Garfield and Kerry Mulligan. They were sort of clones, but mostly in a boarding house and

not, no sci fi at all, but

Sidey: but in a bawling house and no sci fi at all,

Reegs: yep, in media res, in the midst of

Sidey: that one.

It was good. In

an interview room.

Reegs: room. Yeah, that's how

we

Sidey: coming to America.

And He says we've developed

the, the, film, that you, you know, that

he had in the camera.

Reegs: you had in the camera. This is,

Sidey: And so we know he's done a thing.

but the and, they don't know, we don't know exactly what it is.

I

thought it

Reegs: don't, you know, wait for your, you know, your legal aid lawyers coming, you don't have to say anything, but whilst you don't have to say anything, I'm gonna ask you a load of questions about what did actually

Sidey: did actually happen.

Reegs: And we get some narration as we find out about Cy Parish.

Mm.

Sidey: Parrish.

Mmm. We do.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: I can't remember what that animation said, I'll

just be honest with you.

Reegs: in a, like a Walmart, it's called Save Mart, it's yeah.

Sidey: He says that quite a lot, I think,

Dan: And he, he's working in a, like a Walmart. It's called Save Mart.

It's yeah. It

Sidey: reminded me

of the fake Plastic Trees video from Radiohead. It looked very fake.

all

Reegs: all of the

shots of the save my are really bright, like punishingly

Sidey: bright.

Dan: yeah.

Reegs: And

it's a

real contrast.

Cris: looked so artificial to me. Yeah, there's quite a lot done

with

Dan: bright and yeah, yeah,

Reegs: There, there, yeah. There's quite a lot done with contrast in, in this.

Sidey: but this, is

Reegs: he talks about his world, the importance, this vital service that he performs, developing photos and the various people that bring their photos to him to be developed. And there's a bit of tittering as we see a guy bring along some photos of him, raw dogging his wife or whatever,

Sidey: well there's probably, you know, half of the kids, the people at work, wouldn't have a fucking clue what this is all about because they just wouldn't, I guess, even know that film, you know,

it's just all digital.

Reegs: know that film, you know, used to get developed. Yeah, and the thing is that he

Sidey: the thing is that he has this family of recurring customers that they just drop the film in and it's one hour photo

that, you know, that was

the selling point, that you

drop it in and we'll do a quick turnaround. And so this family that he's basically become obsessed with is the whole crux of the matter.

And he takes a particular sort of, has a connection with the kid.

So you're getting

Reegs: into

Sidey: creeped out like right away. So my head is going, oh my god, he's done something fucking awful. with a kid.

When he's, You know,

cause You know, something's happened. So you're just trying to piece it together in the film. of Like, what's he done?

Dan: Exactly.

And yeah, he's, he's justifying his existence all the time doing this and it is his existence.

Sidey: is his

Reegs: photos. you know,

Dan: And you

you see the,

him going through these different photos, there's a few scenes as he's going through just before this, as he go, you know, you get those little snapshots of all the different kind of characters that come in and those different photographs that they would bring.

Sidey: woman who brings her cat

photos.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: But here you've got the yeah, exactly. And then you've got this wholesome family which all the time is bringing photos of him together and with the husband, the wife and their little boy, Jake.

Reegs: Whenever we see them, and particularly when he's imagining them, it's all in this like soft focus.

Like it's a complete contrast to the harsh, the harshness of the savemart. And sometimes that juxtaposition is made like really real because they, they're talking about him, they've sort of noticed his attempts to befriend them sort of thing. And one night. The kid is saying, Oh, you know, I, I wish I was all right.

And let's send him positive vibes. And they, you cut back to him and he's just drinking a glass of water, like staring at the wall in his harshly lit apartment, just with his pet hamster,

Dan: That's right, almost.

Reegs: sole

Sidey: Photo

Reegs: and his

photo collection.

Yeah.

Dan: So yeah, we learn his lonely existence starts to get a little more creepy when you look at his wallpaper, which is made up of photographs of this family over years

Cris: years. Well, since the born, really. Yeah. So,

Dan: nine.

Cris: know, six, seven, however, something. Yes,

Reegs: over a decade, basically, of their life documented on his wall.

Dan: Yeah. And. As he's having this conversation with, what's the, the mother's name?

Nina. As he's having this conversation with Nina, he's saying, oh, is he nine now? And she's saying, yeah, yeah, he is.

And I think the penny begins to drop with her just a little bit there. Oh yeah, he,

Reegs: No, she, she gets charmed by him because he notices a book that she's reading and gets the same book. It's a Deepak Chopra one and goes to talk to

her.

Dan: to be a flicker when she goes, Oh yeah, oh yeah, of course you have all our photographs and you're the same guy that you bring it to,

Reegs: recognizes he's a bit lonely, but they think he's harmless you know.

Dan: He insists on serving her, doesn't he? He goes, and he knows the address straight away

Reegs: he takes great pride in his work, and like you said, he's shown to be obsessive compulsive. He calls the maintenance guy out for like a tiny infraction in the printer

Sidey: infraction. Maybe, who maybe we'll get some

Dan: yeah.

Reegs: maybe, who knows? Maybe we'll get some information later. They'll explain his significance. He even eventually ends up meeting the husband will, they look impossibly young, this couple. They're both like basically in their late twenties and they've got a kid who's about

Sidey: Yeah, I have to say that like he seems like. Particularly, like, unlovable,

And her, the mum's performance, for me, was, like, beyond awful. It was Like, taking me out of the movie.

Cris: And the husband.

Reegs: Yeah. But I guess maybe they're supposed to be a bit like that because straight away you realize there's, you know, it's not as perfect as it looks. Even when Cy who comes, he meets Will in the store, doesn't he? And he's almost like starstruck, like he's meeting a celebrity. Oh, I'm sorry, I can't help you with that.

And

then

he notices the kid is some interaction between the father and the kid talking about this which toy? Yeah, but it was a specific toy, an evangelian. Neon, what was it? Neon

Sidey: Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's a Japanese anime.

thing, Yeah.

Reegs: Toy. Yeah. So

Sidey: He wants it. He's, because they seem to go to this store a lot. The kid is just normally just hangs around like used to do. as those who just hang around the kids

Dan: the kid.

Sidey: And the old man's like, bothered.

He's some sort of graphic designery type thing.

And he needs

a connector.

Reegs: He, he plays around on Microsoft Paint, basically designing chairs

Sidey: He needs some thing for his computer. and He's very stressed about it, yeah. And he's got no time for the kid fucking about or some weird photo guy talking to him who just needs this thing and he wants to go, but we've already seen at home an interaction between him and the wife.

She says, you're distant, you're never fucking present, you don't do anything with us.

Yeah, you're a bad

father, you're a shit husband, and you're also a cunt, so fuck off. Basically, Yeah

Reegs: the kid has soccer practice and wouldn't you know it, there's Cy

Dan: This begins to be really, then, oh, you're creeped

Reegs: creepy now and he,

Dan: see him walking along after the game, he starts in

Reegs: tells him, oh, I was a sickly kid and you know, I had lots of different diseases and whatnot, and

Sidey: and I

Reegs: was all a bit pretty weird at this

Dan: Yeah, and he's just walking along and just thinking because the coach says at one point, are you okay? And he goes, yeah, I'm okay because he kind of knows him, but

Sidey: Well, the

Reegs: well.

Because he's so nondescript and bland looking, And sort of casually inoffensive, I guess, At least in the

Sidey: has, he wears those shoes that,

I I think I've seen them in, like, you know, when you get the Sunday newspaper, your parent used to get the Sunday newspapers, And it would in the supplements,

you'd buy

Dan: Serial killer shoes.

Sidey: they're like a,

Dan: a

Slippers.

Reegs: It's a kind of brogue of

Sidey: Probably cost 9. 95. and they've just got one velcro fastening over them.

And then he's just wearing slacks.

Reegs: he might

Sidey: and he just wears yes and some sort of nondescript slacks and a shirt and a tie. That is very much as uniform for

Reegs: for life. I Guess probably now is the point where Maia comes in to have her photos developed.

And Sai can't quite place her and then he's looked in the photos and then eventually pieces together that he's seen in the photos, some canoodling with Will and this other woman, a secret

Sidey: Well, he he spots her on his murder wall. She's in a softball team. With the husband. And then he's like, fuck, that's where I know from she knows him. So when the photos are developed, he goes through her photos and they have stolen away for some weekend. And there's photos of them getting off with each other and carrying on. And

he is

Reegs: he is devastated. And the fact

Dan: And the fact

he gave away a free camera. Yeah. This, along with the argument with the, the photo. Copy guy. Technician,

Sidey: yeah.

he's He's berated him in front of customers, he's taking weirdly long lunch

breaks.

Reegs: you see that

Sidey: taking a deuce.

Dan: shirt. Yeah, you see that scene and you think, Fuckin hell, is he really doing it? And then they walk in.

Sidey: I was a bit like, because

they, you know, like you say, they they come through the front door and he's all panicked. Yeah, and then you realize

it was

Dan: realises it was all a joke.

Yeah, and it's, yes, it's a dream. Yeah,

it's it's getting a little more high stakes now because he starts scratching the photograph of the, the father. Scratching

Reegs: scratches the eyes out of the

Dan: father. Yeah, on each of the photographs on the wall.

Sidey: Well,

he, but he does something else. He, he gets Maya's photo. And the one of her getting off with the husband, he slips that into

the photo, the family photos that he

knows.

Reegs: gonna

Sidey: is going to come and collect.

right. that's

the

Cris: come and collect. Yeah,

Reegs: What's

Sidey: She's like, oh,

Cris: right. It's cold.

Sidey: yeah.

Cris: steals a big

Reegs: friendliness, no nothing. Yeah, so, like,

Sidey: this point. Yeah. So

like, going back to it, he's been arrested, he's been caught doing something. Now he's got a knife and motive

Cris: and

he's following, he's following the

Reegs: his family, it's the perfect

Sidey: clearly obsessed with this family. It's a perfect family that he doesn't

have. He's obsessed with it. Now it's been rocked.

you know, with

this cheating thing has been exposed. So you're

like,

Cris: that

he considers himself Uncle Sai. So that's the only, the only one where I thought, okay, well this is not very sexual, at least not with the wife, which initially I thought that's the, I thought, right, that him and Nina, she's trying to

Sidey: trying to Then

Cris: Then you would think, okay, well maybe the kid and then now it's like, Ooh, the husband maybe is, because initially, like you say, you think, right, someone, you get the knife.

Okay. Someone's going to die here. That's for me at this moment in time, that's what I'm thinking. And then he follows her and you think.

Sidey: well, before

That he goes he gets his own

Role of film and takes it back after he's been sacked, he takes it back to save Mart, and his boss is the guy from

Office space

who's a fucking douche and that as well. And he's like, no, you can't fucking be inside. I'm just a customer, I just want to get a role. And he's like, well, you could have gone anywhere because no, but this place has got the best

Reegs: Calibrated

Sidey: I calibrate that machine I know it's the best in this

state. And He's like, okay,

you can have this role developed and then after that you're barred

And when it's developed.

you know, she has to take it through. Jim. And I think you want to see this and it's.

just like,

closer and closer and closer, close up of his own daughter. And he's like, a warning shot, you know, say you fuck

off

Reegs: like, you

Sidey: Yeah. I

did enjoy that, It's

quite good

Reegs: that, it was quite good. Clark Gregg. Yeah,

Sidey: quite Greg

Reegs: the star. He's in an

Sidey: and ivory.

Reegs: ivory.

Sidey: well, they go to the Edge Lord Hotel.

Reegs: Edgerton

Sidey: but basically he's Si has a, he follows them and knows they're, they're stealing off for,

a

Reegs: a scene where he follows them and knows

Sidey: while she's driving.

Reegs: they're, stealing off for,

Sidey: he's like

Reegs: And that's what propels him into this next phase, which is to

Will and Maya to the Edgerton Hotel and a rea through a very complicated series of

Sidey: It's all about room service yeah.

Reegs: booking a room and getting on the right floor and all sorts of stuff.

He ends up

on Guy

Dan: his way up there, doesn't he?

Yeah, and Then Confronts them with a knife. I was thinking he was gonna take him down, like, you know, because

Sidey: well first there's

plenty of time for that because He does some stuff with him first. He, he pretends to be room service and she opens the door. He, he kinda

smashes the door into her

head and so she sort of stumbles along and then he confronts them and screams at them, won't let them touch, but orders them round.

And he is all, he's, he seems like he's a bit muddled and conflicted about it. But

Reegs: He's kind of, he wants them to pose but in a particular

Sidey: not touched. And they're kind of like mannequins

almost

next to each other. And then

he is

Reegs: And smile. Yeah. Smile.

Sidey: It's weird.

It's really weird. And he's taking, obviously he's taking photos of that and he gets her, he said, put that in his, in your mouth.

But don't, he's so particular about it.

And

the police

Reegs: We don't exactly see how that scene

Sidey: see how it plays out.

Reegs: not, we don't know how it plays out. It starts getting a bit shouty and aggressive, and then we cut to the police efforts to

Sidey: he hears the siren and he's kind of looking out The

Reegs: next we see him, he goes back to his hotel room. Yeah.

Dan: Well he's got a room just down the hall. Yeah. On the same floor where he's booked in.

Sidey: He's Scarper's basically. And

he's

Dan: And

Reegs: And you're being led to believe that the couple have been butchered in the

Dan: the room. He leaves the knife there, but there's no blood on it.

But it's in the sink.

Sidey: Yeah, but then, and then the Gregster, he's, He enters the room and he says the names, there's nothing then no one answers back.

Yeah. So you're like

And then

he goes in and you still don't see anything and he goes into the bathroom and he kind of peels back the shower curtain and you're waiting for a dismembered corpse with blood everywhere and it's just a woman

crying.

She's doing the whole, you know, wash it off me stuff and I think the fella's just like having a blub somewhere or

whatever.

Reegs: bed with his towel

Sidey: Yeah. So, so, so disappointed.

Dan: so yeah, so he

Reegs: and sigh escapes. This was quite a cool little bit because earlier we'd seen him have a dream where he was in a supermarket in his eyes had

Exploded basically. And as he escapes, he goes through a conference about opticians talking about treatment for retinal degeneration. So I quite enjoyed that little touch.

A bit of foreshadowing or something. And he triggers an alarm. Anyway, he's eventually caught after a bit of like a good color focused escape, a bit of green, a bit of like stylistic moves of the camera down the The car park,

Sidey: Yeah,

Reegs: and he's eventually caught and there's like a zoom in and he's there's something deeply unsettling about that sort of look that he does at the camera when he's caught.

But yeah, he's taken into custody and we're

Sidey: of looks pathetic, but also, like, sort of deranged.

He's, but he's captured And then it's back to the interrogation.

Reegs: Yeah. And also, but we also see we'll go back to his family as

Sidey: Yeah, he's just escorted back and they're just standing there

Dan: This is awkward. They've all got that kind of look on their face, haven't

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: Well, the, the kid runs up and

hugs the old man. You're thinking

Reegs: nah,

Sidey: he might be

only doing that once or twice a

Dan: take, the, yeah.

Reegs: yeah.

Sidey: Yeah, And back to the interrogation room and they ask him some stuff and he just says, well, look, I only took some photos.

Reegs: That's what he says. I just took pictures. And then when pressed, he gets into a conversation that basically strongly implies that he was sexually abused when he was a kid, and his father took photos of him

Cris: it

Reegs: happening meant as an explanation for the movie, which then just kind of ends with this bizarre dissolve to a photo of a sort of, policeman

Cris: gives him the photos back.

And then you find out that all he took photos of their house was just like the doorknob and Yeah,

Reegs: so he didn't

Dan: The hotel room. But he still did

Reegs: There's probably a roll of

Sidey: it was I thought there was probably a roll of film somewhere with that, those photos on.

Dan: on. You know, he couldn't, he couldn't then go through with doing it himself. He was just kind of wanting to see it act out, but

Sidey: that, that is, that is how it ends. You know, that, that is it. So, I was so disappointed with it. In terms of,

I wanted to see him as a serial killer. And I believed, like, I'd never seen it. and I hadn't read too much about it, but I knew it was Robin Williams playing a different kind of role blah, blah, blah, and I just. thought, I had built it up in my head that he was a serial killer. And the start of the film sort of led you down that path.

Yeah. path.

And then I was like, what the fuck? No no one even dies! Oh, I was disa. I was disappointed.

Yeah. I mean, he had some nice touches and he was really good in it and other stuff.

but ultimately left me One thing

Reegs: yeah,

Cris: I think he was the only good, the only, the only one good in it.

Although, although I have to say in the close shots, you could see that his head was shaved too, because normally he's got a normal hairline and

Sidey: chest, his arms his hands.

Everything was shaved quite a lot. for this.

Reegs: he's a very hairy man, I

Sidey: very, a hair

Cris: Yeah, and you can see, but you can see like the top of his head, how they, you can see how he was shaved in, in the, I don't know, except for his performance, everything else was a bit, and a couple of times where the argument where the husband and wife, Nina and the husband, when the kid hears them the first time, it's just so forced.

It doesn't even start somewhere. It's not even, it just kind of starts in the middle of a conversation,

Sidey: know, there was a few

Cris: I

Reegs: pretty soap

opera

Cris: was a few of them that were so awkward,

Dan: thought the kid was okay actually

Reegs: was he playing? Was it Tekken or Virtua Fighter? I wasn't 100 percent sure.

Sidey: didn't

Dan: I didn't

I didn't think

he was too bad, the, the kid, but, and Robin Williams, but the rest of them, yeah, weren't a lot to write home about.

The story for me just fell a little bit. short of doing anything it promised as you I thought

Reegs: really sure what the point of it was at the end.

Sidey: point of it was at.

the end. They're kind

Reegs: Wait,

okay.

Dan: I did it would have been nice then to

learn a little bit more about that or or kind of understand that approach, you

Sidey: photos his dad took.

Reegs: yeah,

Dan: It was might as well have been that bizarre. But

Sidey: It just, I don't know, it just built up something and didn't deliver on It at all, like, really, I don't know, I just don't know what they were going for.

Dan: was, it was interesting, I guess, for, as you talked about Rob and Williams, that time in his career what other roles he might have then gone into that were down that path a little bit

Reegs: more because

Dan: he could Have played a good serial killer.

I think

Sidey: Well, he did

another, another one similar to this.

The name

of it escapes

me, but it was a similar kind of like sketchy character, I'll post it on Discord. But it was nice to see him flex some acting chops.

Just would have liked to

see

Reegs: on Discord. But it was nice to see him flex some acting chops. Just really liked to

Sidey: Oh, hugely strong, yeah, massive. Press gang, because in the press they take photos and tabloids and stuff. So, that is Ian.

Reegs: This

Dan: This was season one, episode one of the 80s

Reegs: 1989 I

Sidey: I think 1989 93 and it's got huge stars. Yeah. Julia Sawala.

Reegs: Sawalaha.

Sidey: Yeah, haha. And,

Reegs: Dexter Fletcher.

Sidey: the

Reegs: Lucy Benjamin Momoloki, like, Moloki, Christy, who you've seen in loads of stuff like The Bill and anything British

TV actor.

And Paul Reynolds, who played the cheeky guy, what was his name?

He was,

uh, he gets an actual spin around in his chair shot smile at the camera as part of the intro, which was just fuckin

amazing.

Sidey: is fucking

Reegs: Doctor Who. Is he, is, is he still writing Doctor Who, Stephen Moffat? Is he the one, has he written the one that's got everybody, all the edgelords on Twitter going crazy because Isaac Newton's played by a person of colour, you know,

Sidey: there's that Are they freaking out about that? though? I don't know.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: don't know. But yeah, anyway. So, I hated this as a child because I didn't like live action stuff.

And this was a thing for, I've probably, maybe a little bit too young.

Because it's,

they're

they're a bit

Dan: They're a bit older,

Sidey: and it's serious,

kind of Yeah,

Dan: this

Sidey: So, there was like it was just

not in my

We'll

Dan: I, I was, I was probably the right age. I enjoyed this, certainly, you know,

Reegs: Mid fifties.

Dan: that, that kind of,

Sidey: So you are,

you enjoyed, you enjoyed this first time

round. Yeah.

How'd you feel about it now?

Dan: Well, I feel good about it. Yeah, I was nearly going to watch the next one straight on afterwards because this yeah, you can, you can cause you can find them all on YouTube.

And it starts off as the, the story is a famous newspaper guy has opened up a newspaper and wants a junior gazette to come off it. And he's in. Is he employed or he's taking in some some staff to, to deal with it and to help run with it. But it's going to be run with the kids and Sawala is the koala lady.

She is the how'd you say her name?

It is Sawala.

Reegs: Suwala? Suwala.

Dan: Julia Sawala. She's the editor and she's kind of really bossy. She knows what she wants.

Sidey: got some high flyer kids but you've also got some

Dan: You

Sidey: delinquents,

Dan: yeah, well, you've got a teacher who keeps sending the bad kids down that he can't get,

Sidey: Right, right, get

Dan: do anything. Yeah, get out of my face. I'll send him down there and they're trying to make it serious. The first edition is coming out. They need a story. And nobody's got one. And everybody's flying around and you're right.

They're spinning in chairs and things and clicking pens and trying to print on photocopies. And there's a photographer. But nobody's really doing anything, all their feet are up, until Dexter walks in. Spike.

Reegs: Oh, I watched a different one to you, I think. I don't know how

Dan: I Oh, really? Yeah. I watched season one, episode

Reegs: what I thought I watched as well.

Well, that's what I thought I'd watched as well, but I must have,

Dan: have How did yours go?

Reegs: Oh, I had a bank vault and all sorts of stuff. Julia Sawalala. Yeah, I thought it was I thought it

was weird where that nothing was being introduced. Yeah, that would make sense now.

Dan: Ah. Did you watch an episode of this?

Sidey: I didn't really watch it for, for this, but I had seen it in the past.

Dan: You've seen it in the past, and did you watch this, Chris?

Cris: Never.

Reegs: Oh,

it was good. My episode was really good as well. She got stuck in a bank for all weekend and she had to like communicate. Her phone gets broken. She had this newfangled thing called a mobile phone, but it gets broken and

Dan: mobile in yours, yeah. It was definitely not first series, episode one.

Sidey: that must have been real primitive.

Reegs: And who else did it have in it?

It was somebody else doing a cameo. Oh yeah. It was

Dan: good, but when I, you know, it was proper, you know, it's kids doing adults work and with that urgency and to find a story and to break a lead in this one, actually the big story a guy comes in and he's queuing outside the door of her boss and, he said, look, I've got a story. I've got a story. And she, the boss says, look, not now. I can't see you now. And then she steals that story for the junior

Reegs: All right.

Dan: And it turns out it's a guy who thinks that the Nuclear plans are being pushed out by toy companies, and in fact, it's just Star Wars figures and things, and he's

Reegs: And what was the love story angle between Dexter

Dan: Well, this is where it starts, like

Well, he finds the story about a disco turning into a pub and that potentially changing hands, and that's their lead story for And at first she doesn't want to take that story.

She wants to go with hers But it turns out to be this star wars guy who's nuts so in fact, she has to go and apologize to him, but she doesn't because she's too bossy

Reegs: Yeah, there's a lot

Dan: yeah, yeah No, so they they both don't kind of back down and he's so cocky and just says well i've i'll accept your apology Anyway, thank you very much.

And he just does enough to to wind her up and he asked her out straight off for the and then Takes it back because she's, she's being so bossy.

Reegs: they're more together at this point then 'cause that's why she's calling him and all this sort of stuff. But yeah, they're, they're more an item.

So there's obviously that undercurrent of the

Dan: the beginning from the beginning and this was good. Yeah, it was.

And I'm not surprised that

good. Few of these went on to have really good careers and do some

Reegs: I mean, a lot of it, there's a lot of EastEnders alumni in here, but then Dexter Fletcher went on to have a pretty big career, didn't he,

really?

Sidey: time director now.

Reegs: time director.

yeah. We watched something that he finished off, didn't, didn't he?

Well,

Sidey: Directed, oh gosh, it was one of the actiony type films that's on one of the streaming services because the big story where he, gave an interview. And he was explaining how the dynamic of filmmaking has changed due to streaming and if you don't, cap, you know, get the audience within the first five seconds they just turn off. So you have to, you know, when the film that he'd made. I can't remember if it was Ghosted or something else. You have to have a big action set piece right out of the gate, otherwise people just won't stick with it.

So that sort of thing. So yeah, he's, he's, you know, proper big

time. yeah,

Reegs: he's,

Dan: Well he has an American accent in this,

Reegs: time. Yeah,

an American accent in this. It's not, no.

Dan: He hadn't quite nailed

Sidey: would he have been here?

Dan: 16, 15, something like that. Maybe 17. But yeah, young and

he, he is, he's almost his.

his,

face was too big for his body at this stage, you know, he seems to

Sidey: You're really getting stuck into him, aren't

Dan: It sounds like I am but no, I really like him I think he was good in this and I really enjoy seeing him in lots of things But it always reminds me of this from When I first saw him

Reegs: of

Sidey: movie.

Dan: incredible Okay, well I was it's a strong recommend for me

Reegs: a strong

Dan: And I I could almost get into the the series again, but

Sidey: Theme tune any good?

Reegs: Yeah, it was quite good, yeah.

Sidey: it in here?

Reegs: I'd love to. There

Sidey: There you

Dan: They are good Yeah,

Reegs: that? That was good, wasn't

Sidey: was good, wasn't it? Wow. It's a huge recommend.

Reegs: huge, yeah.

Yeah,

Cris: what a hit.

Dan: that was loud

Sidey: Wasn't it?

Shall we go all out Christmas content for the rest of the year?

Dan: Alright. Really? I don't know whether I could

Sidey: could take one. Yeah, Yeah,

we could

Reegs: yeah, we could try multi faith it up a little, yeah, holiday season shenanigans.

Dan: Okay.

Sidey: yeah, holiday season shenanigans.

Okay.

Reegs: Isn't it just?

Sidey: That's a full time classic. Sounds, right, all that, remains is to say SIDEY SIGNING

out,

Reegs: out.

Cris: is

done.

Dan: gone.