 Mr. Collie McFadgin. He's here to talk all things movies. Good morning, Collie. Good morning, Rory. Always a pleasure to be here. And that's he... Liar. Well, not well. Not always, but it is today, Daphne, because I know we've good stuff to talk to and not to mention, as I came into Bondore, or into... Sorry, from Bondore and into letter, Kenny, the sort of came out. I'd forgotten it. You couldn't have timed that any better. I'd forgotten it existed, but you know, and hopefully it'll stay around. But even if it doesn't, don't we have loads of great movies to talk about? Maybe it's upstage. We might talk about one you didn't think was quite so great, but we'll see how we go. But it is... So we've had the Easter holidays, and of course, that was dominated by, you know, migration on Kung Fu Panda and all the stuff for the little kids. And then we had Ghostbusters and Godzilla. You know, all the big school blockers. And now we've a couple of weeks of kind of slightly more grown-up movies. Probably starting with the big one this week. Will we go straight into back? Straight into back to black, yeah. And what is unusual here in this situation? Usually I come and I try and persuade you to go to various movies and try and talk you around. But I happen to know you saw this one. And even if I hadn't known you saw it, even if I hadn't met you last night, Rory, the fact that you played the Shangri-La's on the way up, I was driving up in the car and I was listening and I went, there's no way that was on the playlist last night. I'm sure you do your homework and you have everything ready and then you... No, I was certainly... I'm playing that tomorrow. Playing that tomorrow because... And this is what can be brilliant about a movie. You've heard that song so many times and suddenly the way it's done in the movie, it's like you've heard it again for the first time, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And it's great. And I think that's one of the things that comes across well in the movie. Now, I'll say my bit and then I'll see if you agree is it gets across... Look, the excitement of music. Before we get into the sad part of the story of Amy Winehouse, there's a lot about just how exciting she was. And even though her style was slightly retro, to have it in her voice and using language and some language that you wouldn't play on Highland Radio at this time of the day, but with the mix of the classic Tony Bennett sort of music and all that sort of stuff, just really was... Shocking is the wrong word, but it was so surprising. You got you out of your seat and you went, wow, I haven't heard anything like that before. And even the way Blake sings the Shangri-La's in the pub, it's the same thing. You go, this is a song that, you know, I find it hard to believe Amy Winehouse didn't know it, but even if she didn't... Yeah, that's the reason I feel it, bros. I can see people going, really? Yeah, that's the one bit. But also, you know, it's a song that's 45 years old at that stage when he's playing it in the pub or about that, right? And how exciting an old song can still be. Look, it's what Rewind does. Even I was really surprised today to find out how many of the words of Xanadu by Olivia John I knew. But that's for me and my therapist. But that all, you know, just how exciting and she's shook it up. I'm like, I like the Spice Girls, but the bit where she goes, I ain't no Spice Girl. This is who I am. This is all the stuff. And it was just brilliant and exciting in the power of music and how a new voice can shock you out. And... But also how young she was. How, you know, and we forgot that because she was so brilliant on stage. Well, that is so easy. It's so easy to forget just how young she actually was. She carried herself as someone a lot more mature and a lot older. She sounded, her singing voice made her sound like someone who was long. I mean, you know, she was only in her early 20s when she started out. She was 27 when she died. Yeah, when she died. You know? And like, such a lived life because, you know, there are people, you know, I'm a huge Carl King fan and Carl King took influence from her life. But she also could knock out a tune up on the roof, you know, kind of get an influence, go bang, bang, bang. I think in the film, she says, I'm not Cold Porter. She has to have lived a life. And one of my favorite things on YouTube, Ori, is reaction videos. I love, I don't know why I love them. And I love the Cinead O'Connor ones because I think Cinead O'Connor was also someone who never could sing a song just do it by the numbers. She had to live it. You would see it in her eyes. Most famously, nothing compares to you. But anything she did, you go, wow, she, you know, she lives it every time. And Amy Winehouse was the same. And when she wrote a song about her heart being broken, you could see when she sang it again, her heart broke all over again, which is why she was brilliant. And that's why maybe we all should have been kinder to her. It should have been better to her. And I don't know about you. But I said, and I said this to a few other people as well. I felt a little bit complicit because I know for a fact I laughed at the jokes on, you know, in chat shows and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, it's a bit of a wine, Amy Winehouse and laughing at this young girl. And I probably didn't realize, think in the time, how vulnerable, how young she was. And we're all making her the butter jokes because she's had a few drinks, whereas it's it's brilliant when it's Keith Richards. But her, you know, we all laugh at instead of, you know, I'm not saying we should all be snowflakes all the time, but you know, maybe have a talk because all of us know people like that. A lot of us have lived through things like that. And I think the film is a softer version of the story, isn't it? It kind of gives. Yeah, I think it is. It doesn't delve too deep into the the harsher. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't linger over. Yeah, I think that's probably for the void. I mean, it doesn't avoid them. But I think it says like we see her the lovely lovely scene, a heartrending scene where she's in the off license, the little girl meets her and she gives the autograph, which can see she's got the shakes. Yeah. And that really shows the vulnerability. Yeah, yeah. And the human side of her. Yeah. And, you know, she's her makeup on, but not not as good as normally because she's not in a great way. But they show that scene, but they don't feel that other filmmakers would have shown that scene six times to go look how miserable she is, look at me. So there's no linger in the misery. We get it. We know how it ends. There's no need to dwell dwell is the perfect word I was looking for. And instead, where they dwell on is the talent and the brilliance and the fact that, you know, I'm sure you'll be doing this for a long time or you're only a young fella. But when Rewind is on in 40 years time, they will still they will still play Amy Winehouse, but some kid will listen to it and go, who's that? Where can I get it? Can I go and see her? Yeah, because the sound is timeless. Certain things. When you played Eddie Cochran today, I thought of that, too. Yeah, it's still rock and roll, isn't it? It is still it's punk rock. Yeah, that is still it still works. And you know, Eddie Cochran was was who Paul McCartney played to John Lennon and he played him that and that's when John Lennon invited him to join the band. Did not know that. There you go. There you go. It's still rock and roll and Amy Winehouse is still rock and roll. I think it's really good. And I think people enjoyed would you think even look, whether you know, most people know the story, people are around in our age and a lot of people listen to show up there. But I know some people were saying that, you know, kids who went to didn't really know her story that well, are still intrigued. But I think even if you weren't a big Amy Winehouse fan, I think there's a lot to enjoy in this movie. Oh, there is. There is absolutely, you know, and, you know, it's in ways, it's an easy watch. And, you know, the runtime, it's what 90 minutes just over, you know, and what I find what jumped at the way the story is told, the way it's filmed, the way it's structured, it plays out very much like a like a limited series again on Netflix. You can see distinctly how it could be broken up into four chapters of her life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And kind of, yeah, before fame, when she meets Blake, when she breaks up for Blake, although I must admit, when you see the things when she breaks up with her husband and all that, and then they play the song, you go, I've heard that song 20 times and every it's literally what happened. Yeah. It is literally, and she's one of those writers, there's no poetic license there. You go, he went back to her and she went back to, wow, okay, it's good, really interesting. And I've been listening to a lot of Amy Winehouse since, and that's probably that's probably what says it. So it's definitely two thumbs up for me. Yeah, on me. Absolutely. Yeah. Very much so, very much so. Right. Okay, we're going to take a very quick commercial break. We're going to come back and we're going to talk. Let's talk challenges, Willie. Challenges. Okay, we'll do that right after this break. 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I'm joined in studio by Collie McFadge and we are talking all things movies and we're moving on next too. We'll talk about challenges as long as I've just slightly worried that the live streaming when you go to the ad break still kept on because we're about to be sued by Adam Sandler's people if that's the case. Let's talk a little bit about challenges and one of the reasons is so when we were at the screening last night Rory there was a couple of trailers played and I was standing beside the managers of the cinema who hadn't seen the trailer to challengers and I just turned around to them after the trailer and went and that my friends is how you make a trailer and this is the new I'm going to mention tennis and people are going to go yeah sexy tennis movie I don't think so I saw the Wimbledon movie it wasn't good. It was Zendaya who's a huge star and um and Josh O'Connor who who played the young Prince Charles in the crown so we'll have a following so on and the story about a young tennis prodigy Zendaya and she is an injury and can't play anymore but she two of the leading men's um challengers ask her both ask her to coach them and it kind of becomes a love triangle and one of the reasons that I want to mention because it's it's two weeks away and I haven't seen it and what I loved about the trailer we watched last night it made it really exciting you can see that there's there's you know more than coaching going on between all three of them but it's really you don't know what the movie is about at the same time it made this trailer that made you want to see the movie without knowing everything well yeah you know what I mean but I'm giving away be honest gonna be totally honest with you right I'm probably gonna get a smack in the mouth for saying this when that trailer came on and I saw it's about tennis yeah I totally switched off completely switched off well you see that's and you're talking about that's how you make a trailer yeah and I just went no I don't know what you're talking about because I totally switched off I remember the trailer yeah well that's good I'm really glad you said that because my point is that I feel movie about tennis people have switched off and yeah true enough you've switched off at the start but I felt by the end of the trailer you can see it's not it's about many things it ain't about tennis right okay yeah and that that is my point the only thing that jumped out of me goes oh there's your man from the crime yeah yeah well there you go you didn't look at that well well I suppose you were with your partner that's why you're a smart man and that's why I'm a single man but you would have to be as blind as it now not to see that yeah but one of the things about it is that it's interesting right so it's two weeks away and they released all the reviews yesterday they never do that unless they're sure it's a hit oh right okay five stars everywhere right now it'd be an old movie but she has a huge teen following on instagram and so on and she's a really good actress she was in spider man and all that sort of stuff and the tv show euphoria as well and I think this is going to be a big hit and I just want to really mention it as well because um we're going to talk a lot about sequels we're going to talk about remakes a lot over the next couple of months it's an original story and I always like to plug those I think when we come back next month this is one of the ones I'm going to say told you okay and and if I'm wrong and tennis is as boring as you say it is please feel free to say I told you I don't think tennis is boring I just think a tennis movie but look if what you're saying is correct yeah and it's it ain't about tennis a big a big if but wouldn't I pretty certain we'll both agree on is the fall guy now rory I you possibly I know you love your 80s stuff which probably don't remember the tv show would I be right no so it starts Lee majors who was my hero from the six million dollar man right that's where he made it but his next show was the fall guy and the idea was he was a stuntman who then was also a bounty hunter on the side and they threw in all there was always loads of cameos from tv stars his own and I had a cracking sound soundtrack that I actually listened to this morning just just to bring it back and I think Lee majors actually sang it but uh it was a great story a great time and it was been ripe for a hollywood remake but you kind of got they'll just ruin it the way they ruined all the other tv remakes bewitched well is this going to be done in the vein of like Baywatch where it's done as a kind of coffee comedy yeah yeah tongue in cheek poking fun of itself and it seems not it is really funny apparently they've had release early reviews it is really funny but they've made it as an original story just getting the same idea and it's Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt and they're not going to go with any old junk at this stage of their career because they're doing really well and Ryan Gosling is the stuntman in it and one of the things that I find exciting about it I know for a fact that they said if we're going to make a movie about stuntmen we've got to do the stunts and we've got to do the stunts in real life and okay they still use computer graphics but they use computer graphics that like to get out the safety lines but they're still doing the physical stunts and they said if we're going to make this movie make that and it's an old-fashioned funny rom-com action movie and we haven't had a really good one of those for a while and all the indications are they moved it forward because they went this is going to be a big hit and I think that's always a good indication they're bringing stuff forward in the schedule yeah and I really think it is one of those that it's kind of you know like Indiana Jones at its best it's going to be like bringing the whole family everyone could find something to joy about it bit of romantic banter great stunts funny stories genuinely good one-liners and also some really good actors like Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are both you know be nominated for Oscars we can also do the knock-about fun Hollywood stuff as well as you saw like you know even people who didn't like Barbie I think most people when Ryan Gosling is Ken was so funny and so clever and you could see him at the Oscars when he performed live and did the song you know man knows what he's doing I think you're quite right the point that they're at in their careers at the moment they're not going to just do anything just because of script lands on their desk they're not just going to do it they don't need just the money you know that sort of stuff and doing all knockoff so I think this looks really good and really fun okay I think that's in theaters the Maybank holiday weekend and I think it's a perfect timing for it okay great stuff okay so that's the fall guy Maybank holiday so we'll be talking about that next month most definitely that and challengers sexy tennis okay let's talk about what's in theaters at the moment so we have yeah every god get Ghostbusters off your chest all right we know we want to talk I was really excited about this movie right really really excited you know how excited I was I made no secret of it I was really disappointed yeah I was really disappointed I don't know why I'm surprised that I was disappointed but I was disappointed do you know what it wasn't a really bad movie it wasn't a terrible movie they just tried to do way too much and too short of a running time and they tried to give it was just really cluttered yeah and full of pointless side stories just for the sake of giving characters screen yeah giving them something to do giving everybody screen time bringing everybody back giving them all something to do and there was very little resolution to any of the side stories yeah it was a mess I'm funny I think the only good side story was actually about the ghost and the girl's body and probably the character that people didn't get time to breathe yeah didn't care about it but that was a clever idea it was the idea of who the Ghostbuster being friend with the ghost is actually a clever idea and you could build a movie around that and have a bit more that had potential but they didn't give it enough space or time to breathe so it sort of felt and and you knew exactly how it was going to resolve and not that it should be a cliffhanger or a twist in a Ghostbuster movie now I think you're right in in one way I wasn't disappointed about it because I went in expecting to be disappointed so I quite enjoyed it and I think it is like the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal schools for a lot of people it's not that it's a bad movie it's just a bad Indiana Jones movie and I don't think I think if you're 10 that's probably still quite a fun movie Ghostbusters is still okay we need to forget you know I'm in my 30s you're late late 20s okay very late 20s you know so we're probably past the demographic that this you know they're made for that's it and and they haven't grown up I think I told you that I went to Ghostbusters for my confirmation that's how old I am very quickly we have 30 seconds left um Star Wars Star Wars it's 25 years since the Phantom Menace it's amazing 25 years and I'm excited to see it even though now we're talking about a disappointment that was my biggest disappointment but as the years have gone by there's a lot to like him yeah there's a lot of fondness I think it was just because I was expecting Star Wars yeah you know and it was never going to be Star Wars but now actually as the times go by there's loads of fun the pod race alone is worth oh yeah absolutely yeah and I'm looking forward to seeing it with a fresh with an open mind and maybe yeah to re-approach again and it's you know it's playing May the 4th I'm always happy to see a Star Wars movie on May the 4th and it's one week only right one week only and then it's gone then it's gone all right Collie thanks so much for joining us again this morning we will talk to you next month lots to digest there and we will we'll review what we've been talking about next month and we're coming into summer blockbuster season yeah mega movies loads to talk about so Collie McFadgin thank you very very much indeed and that's where we wrap things up for this morning show as well thanks to everyone who got in touch with the program