 of the start of the month. It's time to talk movies. I'm delighted to say Colleen McFadgeen does join me live in the studio. Good morning Colleen. Good morning. I was just wondering, is that sort of subliminal messaging that you're doing? Like coming ahead of Valentine's Day, playing a song, what you're proposing? Are you trying to drop hints to the men or indeed women of Donegal? And it's a leap year, and it's a leap year. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah? Oh, that's a whole other book. Subconsciously, I may have done it, it wasn't on purpose, but thank you for pointing that out. Yeah, you just can't get the rid of the romance, you know? You're just one of those people. But thank you very much. It's great to be back. It's been relatively long time. It's been five weeks, a lot of… That's long for us. That's long for us. A lot has happened then, but we've loads of new stuff to talk about. Really at the moment, after the couple of years of the pandemic, it's just, there's so many films coming out. And this week is no different. OK, yeah, so let's dive straight in to this. Probably the big one that most people are waiting for, most people that are aware of, is the Bob Marley biopic. Yeah, which they were calling more love. Actually, hold on, before we go any further, is it biopic or biopic? I say biopic. Lots of people say biopic. I think biopic sounds more natural. See, I think biopic sounds more natural. Well, it sounds too much like bionics for me, and somebody's just had a hip replacement and is really disappointed that I am not faster or indeed the 10% sexier, I assumed I'd be, you know, well, we'll move on to that. Are you squeaking? Yeah, a little bit. Do you have the WD-40 ready? You did promise if I came all the way from Pandora and let you have that, it's been my first adventure in their car. But anyway, so this one is really interesting. And it's funny, I was thinking as I was listening to you on the road, on the way up, that this is the perfect radio show to talk about this, because as a kid, I really didn't care for the music at Bump Marley. It was very popular, grown up in South Dublin, loads of people liked it. I really, not only didn't like it, I actively disliked it, right? But like a lot of the songs you play, the stuff, because when you're a kid, you're, it's all niche, isn't it? I was a rocker, therefore you can't like other stuff. Other people liked the electronic stuff. They liked the Pesh mode and stuff like that. So they couldn't like that. You all had little boxes and you said, oh, unless that's in my box, I'm not into it. You had to fit neatly into that. And when I listened to the selection of classic hits that you play, it always occurs to me, you go, oh, that's a great song. And you go, 10-year-old Collie would have had such a hump on them that you like that now. But it's true, isn't it? One of the cool things, there's very little good about Nolan, but one of the great things is you broaden your mind that much and you don't care whether somebody thinks it's cool or not. You like the song or not. And I feel that about Bob Marley in my later years. I started to understand more about it. And let's face it, there's some great tunes. And we always got so wrapped up in sort of the, the Rastafarian thing, you know, even the marijuana thing. That was such an image about it. You forget about the really interesting life. Such a mega star in Jamaica, the first really person to cross over there were other reggae stars. But he was such a huge impact. It changed music and then died so tragically young. And it's such an interesting story. It'd be really interesting to see it. And we all have such an idea of the accent and the music. It's going to be a tough role to play because we all have that. I think it was like Elvis a couple of years ago, which Austin Butler did a great version of it, because we all know the Elvis accent in our head. And I feel it's the same about Bob Marley, isn't it? You have that sort of almost comedy accent of that sort of Jamaican laid back, chilled out stuff. And where you become an acting performance and not an impression, it's going to be really interesting to see. And of course, do they have the rights to all the songs? I don't know, because it's not out yet. It opens on Valentine's Day, which is, is it a good movie for Valentine's Day or not? I don't know. Yeah, it's well, one love. It's very romantic. Yeah, I suppose. Jam and Lesso. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But come here, tell me, does does this fit in to, I mean, where, you know, in terms of the the various biopics, biopics we've had over the last few years. So we've had, we've had Elvis, we've had Bohemian Rhapsody, we've had Rocket Man. So, you know, you had Bohemian Rhapsody, which, you know, told a story. Elvis sort of did that as well. Whereas Rocket Man was a little bit more musical. Yeah, guaranteed. I think this is much more the story. And again, I think it's a big part of his like, based around a certain time in his life, but telling the whole story, but concentrating on one section. And I think a lot of this is about it. Quite a complicated family life had a lot of children. And it's also going to bet the time when he had to, there was an attempt on his life in Jamaica, and he had to leave, you know, his homeland where he loved to live. And but that was part of the catalyst in in catapulting him into being a mega star in the rest of the world, because he was already a big star, but he kind of went gigging more. And of course, the Windrush generation in England, which is all the people who left Jamaica in the 1960s to go work in the NHS and the whole lot, be pleased to spend in post office post men and stuff in there in Britain in the 60s. They all their kids had grown up in old school reggae. And then when someone like Bob Marley came up, they were the concert buying the concert ticket buying ages on and all their white friends were going, What was this year listening to us? So he became a different word. So it's all about that. That time I was like, I'm really interested to see it. Also, I'm really pleased. It's only about two hours long. Yeah, I was going, Okay, just too many. Yeah, yeah, too many three hours songs. So really interesting. Kingsley Ben Amos is the star for he's an open common star. He was also one of the cans in recent Barbie movie. So this is quite a contrast. Quite the step up quite the step up, but he is really good. He's been a lot of TV, big, famous TV stuff recently. People might recognize him from Beaky Blinders is a good one. Yeah, I've got names in that. And I think it's amazing. I think, you know, I don't know how many requests you would get for things like Bob Marley and so on, but he's still a huge star like Abba and that sort of like it is just bulletproof music. Everyone knows it, even if they wouldn't know the name of the song. Once the start of three little birds come, I act still play it at the end of every song. Don't worry about a thing, you know, we start to call three little birds. Everyone knows that music. So I feel that there'd be a big draw. I can't wait to see it. And oh, that's good. I think that would be hard to do. Funny enough, wasn't a huge fan about human capacity, because I was a massive queen fan as a kid. Still am. And I found it a bit too schlocky. But and like that, I think the Bob Marley people are still quite involved in this one. So sometimes it can be a slightly sanitized version of the story of the family involved. But to be fair, I haven't seen it yet. So we don't know. There's good vibes about it. Sorry, that was a pun not intended. But they're absolutely, you know, the bulls around it is that this is a good one. So I'm really looking forward to it. Okay, so that hits theatre Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day. So we'll talk a bit more about it next month. Yeah, well, okay. What's been in the theatre for a while? We'll move on to our wrestling movie. Yes, The Iron Wall. Now we're talking about right up my street, right? As a kid, massive wrestling fan. Not so much anymore. But now what I do is what shows like the dark side of the ring, all the behind the scene stories. I love that sort of stuff. And this is the true story of the Von Erich brothers, right? So they were based out of Texas. There were mega stars when wrestling used to be very regional based. So there was a big family in the South, big family, the WWE as we know now is New York. And then Vince McMahon decided he was going to make it a worldwide thing and was very successful in doing so. But this is just before that when in different areas when before people could travel so easily, and there wasn't TV everywhere, that they were the mega stars, this family, their dad had built a wrestling business. The reason they're called Von Erich is their dad was a bad guy in the wrestling business 50s. And he was a he was a Nazi, right? So this wasn't just just this isn't the wrestling that, you know, we're familiar with nowadays as an, you know, WWE. No, it was real. But it was the start of it. You know, it was the stuff that led to this. These guys were huge mega stars in their own area, but it wasn't worldwide. Okay. But it was the same sort of stuff. Goodies and baddies. Okay. And he had these four. So he actually had six sons all together. And for them went into wrestling. And they were golden gods. There were natural sportsmen, good looking, all of them, you know, very Texan, you know, was guns, God and wrestling, you know, that's the way they were. And people love them. And they used to draw massive, massive crowds. But their dad was very tough on them. Now, this, I was familiar with the story, but I brought my brother to see it the other day. He's up helping me after my operation. And we went to see he knew nothing about it. He didn't like wrestling at all. When I was a kid, he just got so annoyed at me watching wrestling all the time. But he definitely didn't know this story. So it was interesting to watch it with somebody who one who knew the story completely. And we and the one who hadn't heard anything about it all. And we really both really enjoyed it in kind of slightly different ways. The problem is, that sort of performance, obviously wrestling is pre arranged, right? But they would always a lot of them would say, it's not cool to completely fake because to do those sort of flips and acrobatics to pretend just, you know, to take the chair shot and so on. It still hurts. The, you know, the results are pre arranged. But a lot of the stuff the stunts they pulled, particularly the stuff to get big money, because the crowds came, the more spectacular you did, the higher you jumped off a building, the more people that came. What's really happening? Yes, it's story line. Yeah, it's more like stunt men. Yeah, then it is, but they're pushing themselves and push themselves. And when you have to play 300 nights a week, or a year, the only way to do it is painkiller after painkiller painkiller. And that takes a toll on the body and it takes toll on the mind. And that's exactly what happened. And no more than a lot of rock stars who, you know, have passed now that were on totally legal, prescribed things for them. But the show must go on. And it just takes a toll on your life. The same thing happened to the Von Erics. And a lot of the wrestlers of my youth aren't with us anymore, even though they would still be relatively young men. And this story is quite a sad story. It is actually such an amazing true story that they've toned it down. Some of the real events they didn't put in because they just said people wouldn't believe the movie. And it's too sad. So for example, there were six brothers in this, there's only five brothers. And, you know, it's no big spoiler to say not everything ends well for everyone. Okay. And it's amazing. A display of how show business isn't always as glamorous as it makes out to these people who are golden gods for 20 minutes in the ring, the amount of work they had to put in and the toll it takes on the body is really, really amazing. Now the house we've got Zach Efron, who of course was famous as you know, high school musical and song advancement. He is so beefed up on this. He is such a must man. And like the elitism is really good. You've got Jerry Mann White, who's a big star now. He's in the Bayer on Disney plus that has been a huge and one of them is he plays Kerry Von Erich, who's probably the most famous of these songs he went on to be in the WWE. And you have a really interesting cast. It's really good, really interesting. And all the more you'll be going, people will come out and go, that big can't be true. And then they'll find out about Chris Von Erich is not in the movie and go, my God, how did this happen? As we speak, it opened yesterday. I think you like this one. So remember last month, you talked about going to see Mexico wins. Now, this is the opposite in that it's very sad as opposed to the next over. But it's the same in that truth is stranger than fiction type of story. Real life. We can't write drama like real life. Things that happen to people. So I think that's very interesting. I think people will enjoy it. And don't worry about like wrestling isn't really it's not different wrestling. It could be rock music. It could be American football. Yeah. So it's a story told about a family dynasty. Yeah. Okay, that's in theaters. I got the iron claw. All right, time for a quick commercial break. Let me come back and talk. My turn, Rick. Yeah. I think you will like it. I just forgot about it. All the difference fragrance makes in a water. Treat your Valentine to top brand perfumes from McGee's Camus Main Street Ladder Canning. What are the different types of fragrance? Chanel, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Elizabeth Arden, Giorgio Armani, Dolce and Gabbana, Jean Paul Gauthier, Clio Bomb and many more. The perfect gift at the perfect price. Design a perfume for McGee's Camus Main Street Ladder Canning. Do you currently have vacancies that need urgently filled? Have you tried various ways to find new staff but didn't succeed? 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So I wasn't quite aware how big a star Peppa is. So there's a new Peppa pig. Was your little girl a Peppa fan in the back of the day? Yeah, she was, yeah. So Peppa has got her, Peppa's having a cinema party, right? And I went, put the thing up on Facebook. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The interest in it. I thought there's a movie called Migration, which you tell me in a second. But oh no, so many people are so excited about it. And you know, it's kind of interactive. And it's all new episodes apparently made just for the cinema. They're promising to only be shown in the cinema. And everyone's very excited. So many tickets sold. Now, I thought, I thought the phrase capitalist pig meant something completely different. I didn't realise what a moneymaker Peppa is, but I am told reliably that in a world of so many annoying YouTube and various kids movies that a lot of people don't mind Peppa. Peppa and Bluey are two of the ones that people kind of go. I would respectfully disagree. Well, it seems the mommies of Dirty Gold are very keen on Peppa. So that's going to be. There is nothing that puts a knot in my stomach. Quite like the Peppa Pig theme tune. Oh, see, I feel like that about Paw Patrol. And I don't even have kids. Oh, that's the one that gets me. But you know, it's going to be really popular. It's going to be all over midterm. And again, I think it's a lovely, probably a lovely time for people who want to bring a small, smally to the cinema. Yeah. And they're not quite sure if they're ready for it yet. Like Sony about an hour long. Yeah. And it's very familiar to them. And I think maybe it's a nice introduction to the cinema. First, slightly older. Well, we've got the Jungle Bunch, which I was about to tell you the plot of there is no need. It's a bunch of cute animals travelling the world, right? Let's not pretend we're talking, you know, Citizen Kane here. But it's probably for four to seven year old and then sort of for everyone, there's migration, which I think is one that maybe more people would be interested in. Open last week, it's very cute. It's from the people who bought us Despicable Me and the Minions. And we've got new Despicable Me coming out this summer. Now, it might be quite at that level, but it's a really nice story. It's about a little family of ducks. The dad is very nervous. Kind of bit find an emo that way. But dad's very nervous. He doesn't want to migrate. They want to stay in the pond. Eventually the family one year say, come on, we've got to migrate and meet the other ducks. They do. And do you know what? They get lost and end up in New York. All right, OK. And everything goes wrong. The way you were describing that, I thought this sounds like a story with a lesson. Well, there are lots of lessons, mostly about family and adventure and enjoy yourself. And it is it's cute and it's funny. And I think all the family will quite enjoy it. You know, as I said, it's not maybe the top tier, but for midterm, it's just it's a really nice movie. That moment dad won't be too bored. And there's some really good jokes. The little baby duck gets all the best one liners and is actually very funny. OK, all right. So that's migration migration. That's out over midterm. Yeah. And if you have a couple of different age of kids, that would be the one I'd recommend. So there's something really for every sort of age group. Yeah. And even for the slightly more teeny audience, we've got Madame Webb, which is kind of a spin-off from the sort of Spider-Man Marvel universe. So she character like with Venom and that that's sort of part of Spider-Man. And it's played by Dakota Johnson. She's not Madame Webb is kind of confusing. And basically she's psychic. She can see things that are happened to people. She goes around solving problems. Now, that one opens on Valentine's Day, too. So I haven't seen it. Now, it's a lesser known Marvel one. So be curious to know how it goes because there's been a bit of a backlash as we know about superhero movies that haven't done so well lately. But even though the Marvels, I thought was really good. But yeah, people slayed it. Yeah, people were annoyed by the last few and just didn't go to. And now it's doing really well on Disney Plus. So it'd be interesting to see this is much more of a female led one as well and how it does. But that's more for the teenagers over midterm. OK, we have a minute left. You wanted to talk about a bit of a sleeper head that sort of crept in under the radar. Anyone but you. Absolutely. Just one minute. Because last month, I talked about poor things, which I loved, weird movie. I talked about all of us strangers, which I absolutely loved, but it's proved very devised. Lots of people go, it's a ghost. What? I don't get it. And I loved it. And we went on and on about that. We barely mentioned anyone but you. Because I thought romantic comedy, it'll be there for about 25 minutes. Six weeks later, it's still the busiest show in town. It is put Natasha Beddingfields unwritten back to the top of the charts. It's so many people that have released extra footage for the Valentine night shows. It's so popular. It just goes to show you, after spending the last 20 minutes telling you what you should go and see, nobody knows nothing, Murray. Nobody knows nothing. Look up, Google the stuff yourself, and don't be listed to eat just like me. Because people love what they love. Careful though, because we have 15, 20 minutes to fill every month. OK, yeah. It's only this week, but it just goes to show you, there's no predicting stuff. People like what they like and sometimes something hits a chord. Maybe times are tough at the moment and maybe a romantic comedy in a beautiful place set in Australia in the sun with beautiful people. Maybe it's just what you need sometimes. And we watch the dark movies when things are a bit easier. OK, OK. That wraps it up for this morning. Collie, thank you so much for coming up to see us. We will talk to you next month and we'll be talking Oscars, we'll be talking... Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters, yes. And Dune 2 for me. That's what I'm so excited about. Look forward to that next month. And that's where I have to wrap it up as well. Thanks to everyone who got in touch with the show, with the requests, the dedications, the suggestions for music as well. Thanks to Liam for his help on the program. I'm back next Saturday morning. We will do it all over again from 10 a.m. Paul McDevitt's up next with the Saturday Shuffle and Donal is on his way as well with a news update for you. But from me, Rory Farrell, I'm Collie McFadging. Take care, bye-bye. And I'll talk to you next Saturday morning. We'll leave you with a little bit of a wreath, I think. Respect, take care, bye-bye.