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It's all happening right here. It's all happening right now on the Saturday Rewind because I am joined in studio for the final time this year, I think, by Carly McFadgin. Good morning, sir. Good morning. And I suppose, can we say it? Merry Christmas for you. Happy Christmas. I don't feel awkward about saying it now. Yeah, I think it's acceptable. I'm not the biggest Christmasy person, but I'm definitely not a Christmas in November person. But now I'm here. I was listening to your Christmas songs all the way up. I think I agree with you about the darkness, by the way. I think the last one. Now, because I like weirdo indie music, there's loads of great Christmas stuff, particularly about the band The Eels, but of the big, epic Christmas stuff. I think you're right. That is the last one. I think it's not for them what they are trying. They are trying their hardest to come out with a Christmas head, but it's just not. It just shows you how hard it is to do. Exactly, exactly. And like the stuff that I bet you, like a bet you when Wizard came out with that, they thought we'd have a one hit wonder one year and not think it was still playing. Naughty Holder didn't realize that his song was going to pay for his retirement. And you know, we'll get to that. There's a couple of Christmas movies back on re-released here again. That weren't hits- Oh, I love the segue. Thank you. I love it. That weren't necessarily hits at the time and have lasted the test of time. Were other stuff that was made as gone, oh, we're going to mop up at Christmas. Never hit the mark. You know, isn't it funny the way it happens? Exactly, exactly. And we will get to a few of those Christmas classics as well, but let's talk. Let's talk about the big one this Christmas and the big one now, really. It's a prequel and I'm quite excited about this. Wonka, tell us about it. Yes. And look, actually that sums up nicely because you're talking about things that you go, or it takes the boxes for a big hit of Christmas. So look, people of a certain generation and now we know what generation you are because you gave away your details. If you'd like to mention your first pet on air as well, we'll all really have a good Christmas. I get into your account. But, you know, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a staple of my childhood growing up, probably on TV before I ever saw it in the cinema. And then, you know... It became a really Christmas tradition in people's houses that it wasn't Christmas morning without Willy Wonka on BBC One. Yeah, 100%. And then, of course, you think, taking the boxes, oh, they decide to remake it, you know, more true to the novel, the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp, take, take, take boxes. And it was rubbish. It really wasn't great at all. And I must admit, when I heard, oh, they're going back to Wonka again, and you're thinking, especially if you're my age, you're going, but you're Gene Wilder was a perfect Wonka. Why are you going back or a prequel? Oh, I've heard all this before. This is the same old, you know, squeeze in the life out of stuff, like the Lion King remakes and all that sort of stuff. I was quite cynical going in. And then you started hearing hints of stuff that Warner Brothers thought they'd two big move, two mega hits this year, Barbie and this. Very confident about it. And then you hear, oh, it's the people who did Paddington. And that made me sit up and go, I genuinely think Paddington too is one of the greatest movies ever made. Not ironically at all. I think it's brilliant. And do you know what you were saying about Christmas Magic? To cover a movie that can go for all ages with no cynicism and no schmaltz, it's sentimental without being like American sentimental, sort of the dodgier parts of home alone sentimental. It's really hard. So I went in yesterday with excitement on one side and bit of cynicism going, ah, maybe we should make an original story. I'd say it was about 15 minutes before we went, okay, okay, you've won me over. You're sold, okay. It's sold. Timmy Chalamet is very good as Wonka and kind of as a young naive. Do you know the way there's a bit with Gene Wilder's Wonka? He's kind of a bit cynical because things haven't always gone well and he's kind of been isolated. He's not quite cynical. I'm quite frightening. Yes, because, and like Roald Dahl is quite nasty, whereas this Wonka is very innocent, very sweet and very kind, but there's loads of characters around him. Just to clarify before we go any further, okay. Yes, this is a prequel, okay, but this is set firmly in the Gene Wilder Wonka universe. 100%. So not the Tim Burton, it's the original Wonka. Wonka arrives in this town and he's obsessed with making chocolate, but he's no money and he, but he wants to set up a shop and there's big chocolate ears who are running the cartel and he wants to get involved, but he loses all his money and he goes to Olivia Coleman's house as a border, but he doesn't read the small print and suddenly he ends up being basically a slave in the laundry, but everyone else is depressed there, but Willy Wonka is gonna get his way out. So it's very much how the man Gene Wilder became, how he becomes that character. But what's good about it is because Roald Dahl did this very well, even though he's very sweet in this and the other characters around him are all straight out of like the Twits and you know, these horrible grotesque creatures, but like, look, who am I talking to? Pantamon characters, like they're so over the top. Like Olivia Coleman's having such a good time being this now, she's got Mrs. Scrubba, you know, and she's just so cruel to the orphans and stuff like that, in the way that Roald Dahl movies and books always did well. That's your trunkless trunche ball. Exactly, these scary characters that aren't too scary because they're so over the top, but they're just a right amount of scary. The songs are by Neil Hannan of the Divine Comedy and that's another thing that I think really magic because that sort of wittiness and you know, when it's going all sweet and sentimental, where it would go into American schmaltz, he has that sort of slightly sarky Irish thing where he has to make- He's going down the fathered head, Rick. Exactly, he has to make the little joke at the end. Some of the songs are really good. There's one where the Willy Wonka's mild spoiler is giving out sweets that turn people into a book like they're living a life in a Broadway musical that I thought was great. It stays around the right time. It's about an hour and 45 minutes, not too long, not too short. There's a couple of mildly scary bits that I would say if you're maybe under six or seven that if you're sitting beside Mom and Dad, it'll be fine that the policemen are a bit mean to Willy for a couple of times. But other than that, it'll be fine. If you're on your, you know, if you're maybe just with your big brother, you might be a bit scared, but you know. It's one of those scary moments Hugh Grant as an umpa-lumpa. No, but I can imagine he freaked the Jays out of a few children. I didn't know what to say there. I was trying to think of a Wonka pun, that's all, I wasn't going to swear. But yeah, he's actually not in it as much as I thought, as the trailers would make you think. But when he's in it- As much as the media would have made you think back during the summer when it was leaked, you know? Yeah, it's much more the other surrounding characters. And he's this team that helped him, who were all people who went to the city with dreams and ended up kind of in servitude, working, and it's a real poor versus the rich and corruption, all that stuff that they do well. And it's very broad brochures, but I really enjoyed. I think Rory, you'll really like it. I think you'll love the world that it's in. Now it's not Christmas. The big guy, Santa doesn't appear or anything like that, but it's set in the winter and it's all this beautiful chocolates and chocolates and all this magical stuff, like all Willys sweets, you know, they make you fly, they make you laugh. There's one that, very funny, there's a big night out that a lot of people at their Christmas parties will experience, you know? That there'll be a very familiar, there'll be a lot of parents watching it this morning, the very familiar feeling. I think, you know, it's not the high bar of Paddington too, maybe, but it's a really lovely Christmas family movie that you can bring, you know, Granny and the cynical teenager and the little kids and all of them, if they let themselves, you just, do you know what, it's like a detox for cynicism because all you went to in a bit cynical and you're going, oh yeah, oh yeah, Hollywood, yeah, just same old idea, same stuff again. And then you go, oh, that's lovely though, isn't it? And it's beautiful looking and the clothes and the pictures and everything about it. You just go, they've put a lot of effort into it. I had a 10, what are you going to give it? I'm going to give it an eight, which is high for me. Now, I only saw it yesterday. Now, the trick will be, will I still give it an eight next Christmas? I think I might. I think this might stick around and I'd be really curious to see what you think. The other thing is, obviously, they will have used FX and CGI, but an awful lot of the stuff is clearly physical. They built sets, just like Barbie, they built the world and it's just that much better for us that there's going to, you know, these lovely sets that you can see the physicality. It's tangible. Tangible, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly, and I think, you know, obviously Hugh Grant's bit is old CGI, but there's an awful... I hope so. There's an awful lot of it that you can see they built this amazing shop and he's standing on this beautiful chocolate fountain and they've obviously built it and I thought those bits were great. Okay, good, so that is Wonka, that is in cinemas now and that'll still be knocking around, I would say. It's going to be around for ages. And like some people will go this weekend, but like the majority of people are going to go over the Christmas holidays and still be there. Okay, all right, so that's Wonka in theatres now. All right, going to go for a quick commercial break. We are going to talk the return of Meg Ryan right after this commercial break. Don't go anywhere. The winner takes all at the Cope Dunlowe's Christmas Advent Countdown. Spend over 50 euro in any of the Cope stores from now until December 23rd for your chance to win the entire contents of the Advent calendar. Worth over 3,000 euro, T's and C's supply, C in store for details and for daily Advent reveals. See the Cope Dunlowe on Facebook. If you're in Litterkenny doing a bit of Christmas shopping and the hunger hits, pull into Charlie's. The menu is packed with delicious options for all the family, including mouth-watering burgers, delicious chicken and battered fresh fish, not to mention the famous Charlie's chips, the tastiest in town. 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That applies to all roads this morning. In fact, due to very heavy rain overnight and continuing heavy rain, a lot of very poor driving conditions out there. So if you're out and about on the roads this morning, please do slow down, take care. And if you can avoid travelling, maybe you should do that for the day that's in it. All right, Colleen McFadgeen is with me in studio. We are talking movies. And next on the list is the return of Meg Ryan. Yes, so one of the things we get, I was just thinking there is good if you could avoid travelling as I'm about to drive back to Bundor. And so if everyone wants to leave... Yes, sorry, Colleen. If everyone wants to leave that road clear for the next two hours, I'd really appreciate it. But one of the things people say to us all the time, ah, they don't make good rom-coms anymore. You know, not like the ones with Meg Ryan. So clearly Meg Ryan sort of agreed because she's come back to the cinema and she's directing this one herself. And it's quite a, you know, sort of common setup. It's, you know, an old couple who are together and have been split up a long time. They happen to bump into each other at the airport. And it's Meg Ryan and it's David Dukovni. He of X-Files fame. So very 80s, 90s crossover. And they meet at this airport and both of them are flying in different places. And suddenly all the flights are on time except their two flights are both canceled. And there seems to be a whole sort of magical realism that the airport announcer seems to be talking directly to them. Now, I've already seen the clips but I thought that was very funny. In the way of, people might remember one of the greatest companies of all time, Airline. Or Airline. Airplane. How I got that wrong? Airplane. Surely it doesn't get me wrong. Yeah, I've set that up. Where, you know, the announcement seems to be directly influencing the movie. And it seems to be this sort of magical, sort of Christmassy wonderland. Because everything's snowed in and they're stuck in the airport. They're given sort of Tom Hanks and Terminal vibes except with the person, the one person you didn't want to be with but maybe it's the person you're meant to be with. Okay, that's the message. Yeah, so it looks like, or if it's not, they should sign me up to Hollywood. I am available for offers. It looks like a nice little answer for the other movies coming around because we have great movies. You know, with the big epic movies like Napoleon and all that sort of stuff doing business. We're going to talk about some other Christmas movies and, of course, we've got all the classics and Wonka and Wish for the Kids. But it's nice to have maybe something for a different market. Maybe a slightly older market who would like to see, you know, two sort of grown-up, believable people in a romantic sort of Christmas-y bit of a fairy tale in itself. For example, Love actually has been out for a couple of weeks now. It was the 20th anniversary. You think people have seen it so many times they wouldn't come again, but people do come again because they love to see that sort of story. And I don't know if this movie will have the same lasting power but I think there's loads of people who would love something, you know, over the Christmas period. Maybe as well, some of the people who do all the work, you know, aside from Santa, getting the presents, getting everything ready for Christmas. When they have a little break from Steven to stay on, this might be a lovely treat. And it opens on Friday. And I'm really curious to see if it goes because it'd be nice to get a reboot of some of these sort of movies, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah, your warm, fuzzy comedies that, you know, that's going to become a Christmas tradition, like your love, actually. It's like you're, I was going to say, trading places. You know what I'm trying to say? Exactly, and like, Harry Metalli, I'm not saying it'll be that good. But that sort of thing of, you know, there's a time and place. I love a sarcastic comedy. I love a comedy where people, you know, don't necessarily like each other and get together. But sometimes you want a non-cynical side of things. You just want a nice story. Sometimes that's fun. OK, OK. So that is called? What Happens Later? What Happens Later. And that's in theatres. It's from Next Friday. From Next Friday. All right. Possible Christmas Classics. We're still talking about it next year. All right, all right. And that leads us nicely into returning Christmas classics. So the old favourites are being pulled out of the stocking. What have we got? So there's a couple anniversaries this year. As I said, Love Actually and Elf are about 20 years old. And you know, they really nailed it that Christmas. And I think in both cases, people would have thought, oh, these are good Christmas movie movies. I'm not sure they were as sure that they were going to stick around the whole time. Because Elf is unbeatable. Like, it just, people come every year in their droves. In the place I work. My memory. My memory going back, what, 20 years ago. When you were four. Elf wasn't, yeah, exactly. Thank you. It wasn't a major hit. No, really? It wasn't the instant classic that we now perceive it to be. My memory of it is somewhat similar in that, oh, here's another Will Ferrell movies. He's making a lot of movies at the time. Oh, yeah. It's all right. And certainly the sort of adults loving Elf was not a thing at the time. But it clearly where, you know, I was, I think, on DVD and then, you know, on TV and then on streaming that I started to become a thing and people started watching it and re-watching it. And that is often the case. One of the other movies that's out this year, one I watch every year, is It's a Wonderful Life. And I didn't see It's a Wonderful Life until I was in my 40s. But that was a flop at the time. And people said, oh, Capra, sentimental claptrap. It was just after the war. People are saying, look what we've gone through. We don't need the schmaltzy nonsense, you know? And if you be, no, if any of those people were still laughing, you went back in time and said 60 years late, sorry, 80 years later, that people will not just be watching it. People will be watching and go, wow, this is really funny. This is really clever. All the stuff about, you know, trust the credit union, not the banks, sorry if you've got any sponsors there. But, you know, all of this stuff is not just relevant. It's as relevant as it's ever been. And the sentiment of, you know, it's about mental health. You know, it does start with somebody thinking to end it all. Yeah, that's right. You know, you forget that. I think people do forget that. Yeah, there's a darkness there that is redeemed. But only, you know, the light only works if there is dark. And it's that story. And it's brilliant. And again, wasn't a hit. So, so many of these movies, people, you know, it's kind of like water finds its level. So many of the great movies, the most beloved movie, Shawshank Redemption, being another one. The people, not very Christmassy, though, but the things that people went dismissed and said, ah, yeah, nothing special. They find their way through. And people, people know what they love. And, you know, the things that touch people's hearts last around for a long time. And when you cynically try and design a movie to hit the notes, it's amazing how often it fails. Exactly, exactly. Talking now very quickly about, OK, the post-Christmas lull. Yeah. There's some pretty big ones, pretty big players hitting the big screen in the new year as well. Yeah, when the kids have seen everything and you're looking at a big, big, silly action movie, Ackerman 2 with friend of Donegal, Jason Momoa. Like, I don't know if the movie's any good. I can watch him muck about all day. He is just fun and funny. OK. Also, we've got Next Gold Wins with Michael Fassbender. So, I'm good about the worst football team in the world. OK. I've seen the documentary of this. It's absolutely brilliant. So, if the fictional story is any half as good, it'll be a great Christmas, family get-together. It'll be like Cool Runnings except soccer. OK, OK. So, they are heading theatres in January. Oh, but Steve's a stay, basically. OK, OK. And that'll carry us through. Collie, thank you for another wonderful year at the movies. Thank you very much. We will be talking to you in January. Hopefully. The other side of Christmas. Listen, have a wonderful Christmas. And you'll have a busy Christmas, I'm sure, at the cinema as well. You're going to be flat out. You probably don't get your Christmas holidays until January. Shh, don't tell my boss. OK, right. Don't want to drop you in it. Collie, thanks as always. We will talk to you in January. Have a very happy Christmas indeed. Merry Christmas. Collie McFarjean and he will be joining us again in January, all being well. And we will be talking all things