Casey O'Brien
Appearances
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 30: The F*ck Word Murder Mystery Show
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 30: The F*ck Word Murder Mystery Show
They're beautiful. Thank you. They really are gorgeous.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 30: The F*ck Word Murder Mystery Show
Oh, okay. Wait, can we try and do this?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 30: The F*ck Word Murder Mystery Show
He wants your microphone.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 30: The F*ck Word Murder Mystery Show
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 30: The F*ck Word Murder Mystery Show
Not at all.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 30: The F*ck Word Murder Mystery Show
The end. The End
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 28: I 28 His Liver With Some Fava Beans and A Nice Chianti
I was dressed appropriately.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 28: I 28 His Liver With Some Fava Beans and A Nice Chianti
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 28: I 28 His Liver With Some Fava Beans and A Nice Chianti
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 28: I 28 His Liver With Some Fava Beans and A Nice Chianti
The end. The End
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 27: Your Hometown Murder Email Round-Up
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 27: Your Hometown Murder Email Round-Up
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 27: Your Hometown Murder Email Round-Up
The end.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 27: Your Hometown Murder Email Round-Up
27.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 26: Twenty Six Six Six
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 26: Twenty Six Six Six
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 26: Twenty Six Six Six
The end.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
465 - You’re Kidding Yourself, Supt
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
465 - You’re Kidding Yourself, Supt
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
465 - You’re Kidding Yourself, Supt
The end. The End
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. Yeah, I would say I think that's right on. I think there are some like gateway directors that are like kind of like how, you know, cinephiles sort of like found their way into movies for my age. You know, Millie mentioned I'm very young that. So like I would say Paul Thomas Anderson is a really good director to kind of.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
follow his career because he did like boogie nights which is uh art house film i would say but also like a major uh studio film um but then you know he did like there will be blood a few years later which is a lot i would say darker and weirder and um that was like nominated for like best picture and stuff but it kind of is a good way to like get into um
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
More of the like highbrow, you know, cinephile movies. And then so that's like more on the easier end. And I would say like, you know, we're recording this today. One of the great film directors died. David Lynch, my favorite director. And he's like a great actor.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
he's kind of you have to if you want to get into film you have to see some of his movies and i would say the entry point for that for him would be blue velvet i would say yeah it's a weird but it feels weird it feels like this is like no other movie i've ever seen but the plot makes sense and you can understand why things are happening where that cannot
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
be said for most of his other movies so that's like a good if you want to get into David Lynch I would say start with Blue Velvet
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Oh, it felt really good, though. Pros. We're just pros at this.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, totally.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
to a great one. Yeah. Yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Well, I think David Lynch is special as an artist, uh, outside of like the movies he made because he, His whole thing was like, you do not need to suffer to make great art. That was like his big message. And I think that a lot of people feel like when you make art or any sort of like project, you're like, you need to die for this. You need to starve yourself, you know?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And I feel like David Lynch was very much like, no, you need to be like, it's better to be a happy person. making art and you can still make art about dark things. And God knows he did, but it's like, you still need to like take care of yourself. And I think that's a good message.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I was shocked. I looked on Letterboxd and no one I follow has watched it. And I was surprised because I was like, it's an incredible film.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, well, you know, the name of the podcast is Dear Movies, I Love You. So it is kind of, you know, we say it's having a crush on movies. It's an infatuation with movies. It's a sincere celebration of film and film culture. And we just want it to be accessible to everyone.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I'm a lover, I'm a feeler, and I love digging up these rom-coms no one's watching.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, you've been behind the scenes now. Oh my God, finally. Yes, I get to emerge from behind the, I don't know. The sweet spot. Yeah, no, I'm thrilled. I mean, it was such an honor that Millie... reached her hand down into the gutter and pulled me out of it and allowed me to be on this pod. Yeah, like Pennywise, yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Well, I saw what you did was ending and Millie wanted to do another show and I was kind of like, well, I was like, Please let me produce it. So that was sort of the impetus, just Millie making a new movie show.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. I mean, it was just so funny. I feel like up until recently, you're like just checking in, you want to do this show with me. Right. And, um, No, I mean, I feel like Millie and I always like we always connected really well. And I wanted to keep working with her if she wanted to keep making podcasts. So that was sort of the like the beginning of the show.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
People because, you know, Millie and I, we can get in the weeds about like art house bullshit, but we like but we want to talk about it in a way that's like fun. And we also we like highbrow. We like really lowbrow, too. And so we want it to be like an inviting, fun, cute podcast. Yeah. Millie, anything to add to that?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
This is a great question. And actually, I feel like a lot of our show is like about the like movie watching ritual to like what we do when we watch movies. I always get popcorn and I always try to get a cherry Coke. Those are kind of my favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
go-to it's hard for me to incorporate candy into it because I if I need the I need the pop and then I need but the candy and the pop is just too much sweetness so I don't know that's the popcorn and cherry coke is my go-to that's lovely that's nice
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Wait, so you feel self-conscious chewing when the movie has started? You think you need to scarf the food?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
There, you know, I'm peeking at the right when the movie starts and then I can pick my spots when I. It's not out of respect though.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
The Arclight was a good place to spot celebrities, I feel like, or like known people. I don't know why this guy popped into my head, but I was seeing Nope at the Arclight. I think it was Nope, or it was Us, one of the Jordan Peele movies, and Tom Morello was getting popcorn. A Rage Against the Machine guitarist was getting popcorn.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Beverly Center.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Oh, man, we're Farrell for Farrell.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Millie had kind of a crazy one recently. This isn't a good memory, but this is something bad that happened where someone was throwing a fire cracker during Furiosa.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Memorable film or movie theater experience? Well, I mean, I kind of talked about this on one of our episodes where I had to yell at those old people because they were in my seat. Yeah. I've had a lot of issues with people sitting in my seat when it's a reserved seat. I don't know how you both feel about the reserved seats in the movie theaters, but I like it.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I like having a reserved seat for myself. And my wife and I were in the theater. It was like a sold-out theater. We were seeing the big short, and we got there right when the movie started, and there were these – So I go to the – this is at the Arclight, and I go to the guy working, and I'm like, where are our seats? I can't even see. It's so dark.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And he's like, they're up there, but I can see that there's a guy sitting in your seat, so you're going to have to ask him to move. And I'm like, oh, God. So basically it was this elderly couple, and they're – imagine there are four seats, and they own two of them. But they're sitting in the middle, and we own two of them, but they're sitting in the middle two. Yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
They have to scoot over one, you know, to make room for us. And so I go up and I'm like, hi, sir, you are in my seat. And he's like, what? And the movie has started. And I was like, oh, you're in my seat. I paid for these seats. And his wife is like, what's going on? And I'm like, oh my God. I was like, please. And the movie has started. And I'm like, please move over one seat.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And then the people behind them are like, why are these people standing in the middle of the movie? And I was like, this is my ticket. Move over one, and finally they did get the message and move over one. But that was a pretty harrowing experience.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And then I have to sit next to them the whole time. No, I'm out.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
She was like, well, it's your fault. You were late to the movie. Have some respect. You know, that's true. I can't deny I was wrong for being late to the movie.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
That is just so scary though. It's so, it can be so dark in there and there's like, you know, there's like dozens of people sitting quietly and you're like trying to navigate them. I mean, it's like a horror movie.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
You go. Yeah. We have a few questions here lined up. Millie, what should we start with here?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Oh! called Wanda. I can see both of those perfectly in my head. Oh my God, so much. Absolutely.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Danny DeVito, yeah. Now, what's your relationship with that movie, Georgia? Do you have a relationship?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. OK, very good. And Karen, what about A Fish Called Wanda? Do you have any relationship with that movie?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
It is funny because I feel like you mentioned that they like these are both like posing for the poster. And I feel like that's such a lost art. Everything's photoshopped now or it's like a still taken from the movie or something.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I don't know if they just can't be, you know, these stars can't don't want to get back together for a fun little shoot or something. Right.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Well, very good. I love that. Millie, you know what? I don't feel like you have answered that question. What's like the VHS cover that comes to your mind?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I have never even heard of this movie.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Oh, my God.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
There's a lot of bugs and phenomena.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Creep, aka creepers.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Fabulous. I love talking about VHS covers in the video store because I just think it's like when you sort of start learning, like... Movies become evocative to you at a very young age where you're like, what is that? I need to know what that is. And I think that's sort of.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
That's really good. That's like a mature thought process going into this.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
You're seeing your pastor. You're seeing your.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
That's a great arthouse movie. I love it.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Very sexy.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yes. I think Helen Mirren is covered in rotting meat, completely nude at some point in that film. Sexy. Yes. Yeah, excellent.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I feel like one that I thought would, I was like, if we had Martin Scorsese on our podcast, I mean, he's like such a movie lover. That's why I feel like he would fit in well with our show. But so he would be a dream guest. Let's put those out into the universe.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, and I think there's a lot of like, judgment about like what movies you like or like what movies affect you the most. Like, it's very easy to be like, oh, that's a, you know, people will throw, you know, I said this even earlier where I was like, this is a stupid movie. Like I can't hardly wait or 10 things I hate about you, but those make me feel a certain way. And that is meaningful to me.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Thank you. Oh, one thing I want to pitch is or a plug, I should say, is the softies, the band, the softies. They do the theme song to our show and they're one of my favorite bands and we're an inspiration band. To kind of the vibe of the podcast. It was like such a thrill to have them do the theme song. So if I'm plugging anything, they have a new album, The Bed I Made. You can listen to that.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I love it.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And so I think our movie one, our, our podcast wants to kind of, you know, why hold up all the, types of films and um make them you know celebrate them equally and they they're meaningful equally it's it's more about like how these movies make us feel rather than you know the the intellectual value that something has if that makes sense yeah
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Millie, you go first.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Is this the Robbie Williams movie?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Wow. I feel like the whole narrative with Robbie Williams is like, nobody knows about him in America. And then like this movie came out and it was like, this movie is bombing in America. And it's like, we don't know who he is. Why don't we go see this movie?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Casey, what did you watch recently? Okay, so I watched this movie called, and I was really weeping during this movie, Truly, Madly, Deeply. Have you ever seen this movie? Which one's that?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Oh, it is? What? Yes. I had never... I had seen bits of it, but I watched it the other night, and it's so beautiful and touching. It came out in 1990. It's with Alan Rickman and... Yes, you told me about it.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Juliet Stevenson, and basically the premise is her boyfriend, Alan Rickman, dies, is dead. This is not a spoiler. This is the beginning of the movie. But... he comes back as a ghost and it's, it's so romantic and sweet and silly. And I was like, this is like one of my new favorite movies of all time. I'm not even kidding.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
The end. The End
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yes, she's incredible.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. I mean, I was immediately when the movie started and it's like happy tears. I feel like I felt good at the end of it. It's not like a downer. It's a happy. No, I think. OK, it's beautiful. It's really beautiful. And I really I truly, madly, deeply loved it.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yes. It's Anthony Mengele who did The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley. It was his first movie. Oh, so good. Yeah. Wow. It's his first movie. Yeah. Really good.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I do that too. I do that too. Yeah. There's no shame. That's the thing with our podcast. There's no shame. Yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
We are cringe, but we're free. Exactly.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
One out of three, okay.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Millie, did any come to mind immediately?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Thank you for translating. If you didn't understand that, don't worry, everybody.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
463 - We Are Never Brief
Movies. You've seen them.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
463 - We Are Never Brief
And I'm Casey O'Brien, producer of I Saw What You Did, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
463 - We Are Never Brief
Or like Thelma and Louise, holding hands, careening off a cliff. The point is, we want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
463 - We Are Never Brief
There's going to be heated debates, flawless recommendations, and guest luminaries from every corner of the film industry.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
462 - We Own This Table
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
462 - We Own This Table
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
462 - We Own This Table
The end. The End
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
461 - Heed This Advice
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
461 - Heed This Advice
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
461 - Heed This Advice
The end. The End
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Minisode 416
And now we're teaming up on a brand new podcast called Dear Movies, I Love You.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Minisode 416
Each week, Casey and I will have heated debates, give flawless recommendations, and talk about what's going on in cinema. Dear Movies, I Love You on Exactly Right is available right now. Listen every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Minisode 416
And then she got diagnosed with cancer. A beloved young Christian woman fighting a battle undeserved. We thought she was God's gift, but she was a liar. Why would somebody fake cancer?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Minisode 417
And I'm Casey O'Brien, podcast producer, filmmaker, and lover of movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Minisode 417
We want to talk about all the movies we're crushing on, from hidden gems to blockbuster favorites.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
I think I had just, I assumed I had followed you back. I think that's what happened. I think I had assumed, there's no way I didn't follow you back, but I fucked up. I don't know what you want me to say here.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Now we're doing a podcast together.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Yes.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
I do one or two sentences. And I like that. I prefer that as a user to read. I don't really want to read an essay on here, to be honest.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
You know, both of us were both students of film. So these aren't necessarily recommendations. Some of these might suck, frankly. A lot of them will, probably. A lot of them will, yes. You got to break a lot of eggs, kiss a lot of frogs.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. Well, here's like kind of one of my favorite reviews. This is Ayo Edebiri. If you ever follow, she's a great follow on Letterboxd. This is her review of The Empire Strikes Back. This movie is great, but I was really shocked by how ugly Yoda was. Sorry if that pisses anybody off, but I had only seen baby Yoda and adult Yoda is fucking busted. I mean, that's the whole review. So...
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
It's great. Yeah. Anyways, this isn't an ad for Letterboxd, but we love it and I use it all the time. And it's where I keep track of all the movies I've watched in the past.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Okay.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Interesting.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Mm-hmm.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
This is just like, inject this into my veins.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
This sounds wonderful. And I've never heard of this guy or this movie.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Oh, catfishing is thriving right now.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Oh, my God, that's so cute. That sounds so cute. And they're both cinephiles. Yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
That's so interesting. You say like not knowing Japanese movies from the eighties or nineties. And I was just thinking, I was like, I don't really either, except for one of my favorite movies of all time, Tom Popo by Juzi Itami, which is also like the cutest movie in the world. And so like, it definitely feels like it's an area that I want to explore.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
And I definitely want to check out, is it Yoshimitsu Morita, his movies? Morita. Yeah. These look incredible.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Nefarious. And Millie, she's in the dark web all too often.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Sure.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, amazing. That's great.
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Oh, my God. Okay, so full disclosure here. I'm in a bit of a horror movie zone right now. And so all of these are horror or horror adjacent. And these ain't elevated. I'll tell you that much. Okay. I saw this Quebecois film called Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. What? Very cute. That's from 2023. Wow. What a title. It's very cute.
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It feels like... I'll read my Letterboxd review. It's Only Lovers Left Alive Meets Twilight. Because it's about kind of like a... It's very cutesy, but it's also very twee. Oh. I'm like over the vampires who are like, I don't want to kill people. That's like, I find that annoying now. And I, and sure. Vampires are, you know, they, they, they should murder people.
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And today we have the wonderful comedian Shalewa Sharp. She's on to talk about her area of expertise, which was important to both of us, wouldn't you say, Millie?
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That's, that's what I took away from that.
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I've never read any of these books, but I was in college when all of those movies came out and all of my gal pals were obsessed with it. And so, unfortunately, I have seen every single Twilight film at midnight on the day it came out. Wow. I know a lot about it. I think people like them now in retrospect. Those are bad movies.
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Really?
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Nine, maybe?
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Well, and I saw them at the height of my like shithead stage because I was in film school. I was like, this isn't, you know, this isn't like the Verkmeister harmonies like this sucks, you know, or whatever the name of that Bellator film is. But I think I do need to revisit them because I think they would be fun to watch now. Yeah.
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Yeah, Twilight. Worth a revisit. Then I watched, okay, I saw this movie that I thought was incredible, and I feel like it should be more famous. It's called Black Rainbow. It's directed by Mike Hodges. It's starring Rosanna Arquette and Jason Robards. Have you seen this movie? It was just re-released by Aero Video on Blu-ray.
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Like, Harvey Weinstein and Miramax totally fucked up the release of this movie, so it went straight to cable. So like nobody knows about it, but it's really good. It's about a traveling psychic played by Rosanna Arquette, her father, Jason Robards. And they're kind of a, you know, shysters. They like are kind of scamming people. But then she starts getting visions of people actually dying.
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And it's really good. I thought it was really interesting.
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Okay, that's good. And I believe there's a movie beyond the Black Rainbow. Okay. That's a different movie. Okay. That's by Panos Cosmatos of Mandy fame. Oh. That's a different film.
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Get it right. Pay the price. Did you ever watch Salute Your Shorts on Nickelodeon?
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Yeah, Ugg.
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Yeah, okay. I'm just glad, I just wanted to make sure we're on the same page when it comes to Salute Your Shorts, and now I know we are, and so we can move forward with recording the podcast. Yes. And then the last movie I watched last night, which I'd never seen before, The Crow. I loved it. I thought it was great. The OG crow? Not Bill Sarsgaard's the crow. Yeah. Brandon Lee's the crow.
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I have been told I look like Bill Sarsgaard.
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By two different people.
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I'm loathe to say such a thing because he's like one of the hottest men on the planet. Or I think he's very hot. Me too. I will say two people told me that. But still a thrill.
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Have you been told about Casey Affleck? I get told Casey Affleck frequently. And my name is Casey.
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Oh, so fabulous. Much more to come on Dear Movies, I Love You.
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Yeah.
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I feel good. It felt like writing in a real diary. I feel relieved of some emotional baggage. That's good.
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Now, this is a great question. I have, but I have a huge problem with dry January. My birthday is in January.
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And that's going to be wet. I refuse to not drink on my birthday because it's in dry January. And also- My daughter's birthday is now in January. Now, maybe I shouldn't be drinking. You know, it shouldn't necessarily be a cause for drinking, but there'll be a party.
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And I would be sad if I couldn't have like a beer at my daughter's birthday party, which my daughter's birthday is the day before my birthday. Isn't that funny? Oh, but I do think it is nice. Sometimes to dry out a little bit and just, you know, reconfigure because I am a drinker, but it's good to, you know, kind of reconfigure your system. I feel like I kind of participate is my answer.
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in dry January.
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No, I mean, it feels like it's like 10 years old.
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Yeah, I think it's like people will go extra hard leading up to dry January and then go real hard after dry January. And it's kind of like, well, why? This isn't good. You know, moderation is best.
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I mean, it's interesting because there aren't that many movies where it's like a celebration of drinking without it being about alcoholism.
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You know, or like the downside of imbibing. Yeah. Yeah.
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Oh, absolutely. And it's one of those movies, when I saw the trailer, I was like, oh, this is going to be so bad. I just thought, I don't know, like, I was like... I was like, it's Bradley Cooper's first movie. It's obviously like this passion project. It just I feel like it had things going against it. It had kind of a goofy moment in the trailer that was like memed and is still memed.
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You know, the I just want to take a look. You know, but I love this movie and I was really blown away and it was a juggernaut. And it's the first movie in a while where it was like, oh, it's a big hit movie with stars and there's a huge song attached to it. Like that was fun.
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It kind of was a throwback to old blockbusters in a way where there's like a hit song kind of attached and embedded in the movie itself, you know?
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That's right. Those who are down bad for film, those who have a crush on film, those who are using movies as a way to fill your sexual and amorous holes in your life. I don't know if that's the right way of expressing that, but... It's for those who sincerely, sincerely love film and care about it very deeply.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Yes, it's the same feed. It's the same channel.
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That's right. I produced that. wonderful podcast. And this is sort of, you know, a phoenix rising out of the ashes of I Saw What You Did. And I'm just so thrilled and thankful that you wanted to have me be a part of this show, Millie, in this capacity.
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I like a white Russian, but they're an acquired taste. I saw the movie North by Northwest with Cary Grant. And he orders a Gibson, which is a martini with pearl onions instead of olives. And that's my favorite drink. Really? Yeah.
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I don't always because that is a potent punch. But it is. I like the brine of the pickled onion in my martini.
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Dunk, dunk. Yeah, okay.
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So do you like a dirty martini? A dirty martini is where they actually pour olive brine into the martini. Should try it out sometime.
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You know what's funny, Millie? This is so random. You and I have only seen each other in person for once, and it was like for 30 seconds. Isn't that interesting? Was it at the Egyptian theater or down that way? It was...
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No, I think it was pretty early on. Oh. I think it was maybe, I'd been doing it for like two months. Oh, I see. We will be reunited at some point in person, hopefully drinking martinis and eating olives.
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Funny, I don't know necessarily, but very cool. Always cool.
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Sure, I guess so. First of all, I produced an excellent movie podcast before this one called I Saw What You Did, as we've already covered. I've produced several movie podcasts, but also, like you, Millie, I went to film school. Ooh, la la.
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Wait, how did you guys first meet?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I remember this now. I didn't realize it was from that article, but that's... Yeah, yeah.
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OK, Millie, why don't we transition a little bit into why we wanted to bring Shalewa on the show today?
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And so, hopefully, you know, we can, throughout the course of this podcast, we can get some of those, like, you know, film school tales, and we can bring up our time in film school, because that's sort of a funny... Time in everyone's life. So anyways, went to film school. I also would consider myself a filmmaker. I would. Because I do make short films and I'm working on a feature film right now.
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I'm a little weak. And what was it when you saw it? What was your reaction to it? Was it nervous and excitement or like, were you surprised by your reaction to it? Were you comforted by the dancing? I fully enjoyed it. Millie, we saw it together.
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We need to get rid of the darkness. We need to get rid of plot. We need to get rid of all the extra stuff and really concentrate. It's a concentrated film into what is the essence of And I think Magic Mike XXL is the one that is now remembered mostly. Absolutely.
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And I really love movies. They're a big part of my life and my creative identity. I also... used to host a film podcast. That's right. Called Fart House, where we talked about artsy fartsy films. And I did that with my friend, Patrick Mallon. What's up, Patrick?
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Yeah, yeah. They remove all stakes, too. I mean, there's no stakes in the second one, really. I mean, in some ways, Magic Mike XXL feels more like an arthouse experimental film because you're like, Where are they going? Where are they going? It's not a competition. They're not going, it's like a showcase. They don't win anything. So there's no like prize money that they like need to get something.
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They're just kind of like hanging out, going place to place, you know, dropping in on all these people and thrusting on them. And it's just like, it's more of an interesting kind of experiment in what a film can be than the first one, which is more of like a traditional, like, arc, you know? Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, bringing up the characters and like how you get to know them in the second one, which is like what makes that second one so great. Then they take that away immediately in the third one. I think they're on a,
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Well, I thought that they were like setting it up. It's like, oh, don't worry. They're going to have to fix some things with the show and they're going to bring the boys back to help fix the show. And that did not happen.
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Sure.
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Yeah. Well, the third one made me sad, too, because, you know, in Magic Mike XXL, it seems like he's gotten the furniture business off the ground. He's making his own money. He's doing well. The third one starts with him working some shitty catering job at Selma Hayek's house. I'm like, what happened, Mike? Yeah, what happened? I don't know. It's just sort of like... Starts off as a bummer.
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I don't know. It does.
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Yeah.
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I have a pitch just based on everything you just said, Shalewa.
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son of son of magic mike okay nicholas gallant how do you say gallant okay he's channing tatum's son and he has a bad relationship with his father uh-huh okay and he goes up into his attic and he finds all the old pictures and videos of his dad stripping and then he starts stripping and then magic mike is like you don't want to go down that road like it'll ruin it'll kill you Love it.
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Let's go. In the end, the finale, Channing comes out to save his son somehow by stripping. I'm here. I'm kind of here for it. I think that would work. And the other angels, the other angels from the old crew show up. Like at the end of Star Wars, you see the ghosts of Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. Just standing there. Yes.
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Well, thank you. I appreciate that, Millie. I think that it's not unlike Worf in Star Trek. You know, he's a Klingon and a lot of people have, you know, thoughts about him as, you know, the Klingon race is very violent. But, you know, people just need to understand that Worf is a gentle soul and, you know, over time they accept him. So...
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Oh my goodness. Love Shalewa.
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That was a hard conversation to even stop talking about Magic Mike, because I feel like there was so much more in the chamber there. I mean, we could have...
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I won't bring it up again on the show. But anyways, I appreciate that. And I think, you know, more than just film brodom, you know, I think there's a kind of... there can be kind of a lot of rules in terms of, and they're all imagined, of course, but there's a lot of pressure to think about movies in a very specific way.
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It was really hard to pull back on that. I mean, we might need to do follow-up episodes, honestly.
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Frankly, the format of the podcast to all of our episodes being about the Magic Mike extended universe. Um... So that was great. Oh God. Okay. Moving on. Let's get into our final segment of the show. Employee picks. This is where we do a film recommendation based on kind of what we talked about in this episode. Did I ever tell you about the chicks picks at Mr. Movies at my local video store?
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No, I love employee pics. So tell me, tell me about it. So there was like, you know, the staff pics at my local video store, Mr. Movies in Minneapolis. And it was all dudes who worked there. And they were nice men. But my mom was like bothered by this, my mother. And so she went in and she was like, you know, you don't have any women on the staff picks.
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It's like five guys recommending action movies. Love that. And the manager was like, oh, my gosh, you're right. To his credit, he was like, oh, my gosh, you're right. We need to do something about this. And my mom goes, well, I have an idea. How about we do a box and women can submit their picks to this box and you can have a chick's picks there? row. Oh my God. He's like, Oh, that's great. Yeah.
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Maybe we'll get started on that. And then my mom is like, well, I already made a box for you. So here's your box and you can put it up on the counter. So then like the next week there was a little, you know, on one of the shelves, it said chicks picks with movies recommended by women.
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She's a hero.
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Oh my God. Anyways. Yeah. That's kind of my, you know, part of my film history, you know, as a child, I was probably like 12 when my mom did that.
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No, I don't think, I don't think I've had an opportunity to do something like that. Oh my God, you should just get a job where you could do it. It is so fun. So quit this podcast and do something else and have my mom co-host the podcast with you instead. Okay, got it.
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Sure.
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Totally. So imagine this on a shelf in a digital video store somewhere.
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A lot of that is, it tends to be from a more male point of view, and it's kind of like, these are the good movies, these are the bad movies. If you like these movies, you're cool. If you like these movies, you drool. And I think this podcast wants to kind of dash away any sort of pretension or rules about what you need to do in order to consider yourself a lover of movies.
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Fabulous. Yeah. Fabulous. I haven't seen it. I must check it out. Yeah, yeah. My recommendation, since we're talking about drinking, is a movie from 2020. It's a Danish film, so you will be reading subtitles, y'all. It's called Another Round. It's by the filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg. It stars the very hot Mads Mikkelsen. Mm-hmm.
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And it is about these four high school teachers who kind of all sort of have depressing lives. They're friends, and they read about this medical guy who says that you actually operate better if you're a tiny bit drunk. Ooh. Like your optimal pH kind of level is if you are a little bit drunk. So they decide to test this out and like are just kind of drunk all the time. And at first it's like fun.
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Yeah, they feel great all the time. And then it sort of devolves as some of these guys shouldn't be drinking all the time. Yeah. It's an interesting kind of exploration of alcohol because I think it has a more complex conversation because it's not saying like drinking is bad. It's more like drinking can be bad. If your life is bad and you are drinking a lot, that is bad.
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But alcohol in it of itself isn't bad. Yeah. But it can be. Oh, I see. And so, I don't know. It's kind of an interesting thing because I just feel like sometimes movies' exploration of drinking is so cut and dry. If you see someone drinking hard alcohol in a movie, you're like, uh-oh, something bad's going to happen. That guy's tortured, you know? Yeah.
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So I think it's a really interesting movie by a really interesting filmmaker. It won Best International Film at the Oscars. Thomas Vinterberg is a very interesting filmmaker. He comes from Denmark and he was a part of the Dogma 95 movement, which he started with another Danish filmmaker named Lars von Trier. And that was like in the 90s. And they had all these rules for making films.
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It was like had to be shot on like a video camera with no tripod, no violence. They had all these rules. They were kind of like really arthousey movies. And there are some really good ones. Like one of his films, The Celebration is really good, even if it is shot on a video camera. But he kind of was like, I don't want to do that anymore. And he stopped making movies.
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He stopped being like such a pretentious prick. But Another Round is fabulous. Leonardo DiCaprio was supposed to remake it. But I don't know if that's still happening. But... I'm checking it out. So anyways, another round. You can watch that on Prime. It's on, if you're on Prime Video, I think you can stream it on there. Peacock Canopy, which is a library app.
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You can watch movies for free on there. So it's in a lot of places, but check it out. It's a great movie. Another round from 2020. Sounds great. I love it. Millie. Oh my God. We recorded our entire first episode. No, we didn't kill each other by the end of it. No, I just fired you and hired your mother. Yeah, I was fired a few times, replaced by my mom, which was humiliating.
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But we made it to the end.
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Yeah. I mean, we have so many ideas about what we want to do for this show. This is going to be changing all the time. You know, new segments are coming in. It's going to be a very vibrant show. We're very excited about it. We have so many ideas for it. But one of the ideas I have in the future is we want to give out film advice at the end of our shows. So please write in your questions for us.
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You know, if you're in need of specific movie recommendations for specific situations, like you're on a date or something and you need a movie to watch. Or if you need help navigating a certain director's filmography, we can help. Or if you need a film gripe resolved, we're going to have film gripes. That's going to be a big part of the show moving forward. Huge part.
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Please write in at dearmovies at exactlyrightmedia.com. We want to, you know, give out advice to the people as movie experts. We want to help you. We want to help people. But, you know, you can write in or even better, you can leave us a voicemail. You can record a voicemail on your phone. Keep it under 60 seconds, please. And email that voicemail to dearmovies at exactlyrightmedia.com.
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If you sincerely love a movie, even if it's considered a bad movie by some, that should be celebrated. And that's what this podcast is about. It's about enjoying film at all levels.
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So we'd love to hear from you people. Please write in. Yeah.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Hello, Casey O'Brien. Hi, Amelia DeCherico. How are you?
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Well, we're going to be sensitivo. I'm a very emotional person. You know, I said before that I consider myself a soft straight. I'm a softie. Yes. And I love rom-coms are like kind of my favorite genre of film. But I also, I'll throw on Salo. Wait, who's the director of Sala? Pasolini. Pasolini, which is a movie that is one of the most, I don't know, sexually violent and perverse.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, we are doing a new podcast. You and I, both of us, making a movie podcast together. It's thrilling, it's terrifying, and it's liberating all at once.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
And there's a lot of like eating poop in it. And it's a great date night movie. Great date night movie. But it's a very extreme arthouse movie from the 70s. Is that when it's from? But anyways, you know, I can throw on that movie. As much as I can throw on, you know, Sleepless in Seattle, a movie I truly love.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
So I think this is more about the emotional connection to film rather than any sort of intellectual debate or study of film, if that all makes sense.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
We're emotional intellectuals. Exactly. That's right. I think that is what brings us together. And why we thought this show would be good is because I think we both seem so tough and hard on the outside. But on the inside, we're just we're marshmallows. You know, we're a big softies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
We're exactly like, in so many ways, we're exactly like John.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Absolutely. Yeah. I think that way about food too. I agree. I used to work at a very fancy restaurant in LA, Jelena, and love the food there, but I'm a frequent McDonald's. I'm in there getting a McRib, you know, on the regular when it's there. Yeah. So yes, I agree. High and low. They're the same. They sit at the same table for me.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. And all are welcome at this table. That's right. All levels of filmdom will be excited to listen to this show. We'll talk about, you know, arthouse filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman. But we'll also talk about silly movies like Adam Sandler's Who Be Halloween. I don't know. That's just an example. A movie I liked. Who?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
But anyways, that's sort of the crux of our new podcast, our new endeavor together. And we're psyched. We're psyched about it.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Well, moving on, our first segment is called Film Diary. Millie, one way of keeping track of the movies we've watched is on a social media app that we both use. And I'd love if listeners followed us on there because the comments I'm making on these movies are hilarious. Yes. Cannot be ignored. Yeah, they can follow us on there. You like Letterboxd as an app? You use it? You're a user?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, I can do that. This is the movies we've watched in the last week. And we're going to be discussing the movies we have most recently watched. Now, these are not necessarily recommendations. This is just like our extracurriculars. That's right. These are our studies as film enthusiasts. You know, we're trying to like mine through all of film of all of time.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
But it took you a- I'm gonna be upset that you're bringing, I'm upset that you're bringing this up.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
So Millie followed me on, and it's not exactly like You're not really friends on Letterboxd. You basically follow someone and then they can follow you back. It's not like accepting a friend request on Facebook. In your mind, it's not. It was for me. Okay, well, Millie had followed me on Letterboxd and... I went about my life after that one.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
MFM Presents…Dear Movies, I Love You
And I don't know if I missed the notification or something, but it took me maybe a year before I followed you back. And I mentioned it kind of like, oh, Millie, isn't it funny? I just, I didn't realize you were on Letterboxd. I can't believe it took me so long to follow you back. And you were like, yeah, I noticed.