Scary Movie Six Review

Well, for five points , Mark, and welcome to the show by the way. I'm welcoming you to your own show but contributor and so on . You get five points . If you can guess which medieval job is currently undertaken in my house . Medieval job ? Yeah, I mean, I'm using the term loosely. Have you put child three in the stocks and have you paid someone to throw apples at him? No . Okay, is it the installation of sewage ? No , it's not that, nor is it the installation of our missing rembrand Okay, is it to do with the pox ? It could well you're getting closer. Okay, someone is some one is having a course of leeches applied because of an outbreak of the pox . Well, we might all get the pox as a result of whether this gentleman is going to be successful or not. And the answer is, of course, he's a rat catcher. Have you got a rat? Well , I suspect more than one and I suspect quite a few dead ones because you'll be very glad that you're not staying in our house at the top of the house where the Australian Californians are because the house stinks of what I suspect is either decaying rat or rat urine or decomposing rat or something , few flies in the house and you know, this is feeling a little bit like the plague, yes . We had a we had a rat to come around ? No . We had a rat that got its way into the little porch above our front door and we were away and child two was in the house on their own and they heard yes scratching noises and if you if you know, the way that the exorcist begins is that the child hears kick and the next thing it's levitation and spinning heads and vomit . Yeah. And then we had you know we had to have the whole porch taken apart in order to find said Rat, which was not dead, was very much not dead. Oh really? Well, I suspect this one is we've got and so this morning when I, was just going through the script and doing some prep for Richard E. Grant, who's our guest on the show today , we had a smell of rats and there were foxes in the garden and I was thinking this is just London, you've changed just horrendous. You got urban foxes in your garden? We had two this morning. Yeah. Do they how ? The worst sound in the world is when they're kind of scared or challenged or something, they sound like a baby is being attacked and they wail and howl at three in the morning and they there is so much vermin knocking around these parts . What we need is a cleansing operation or the hunt. Actually, if there was an Islington hunt, maybe that would sort it all loud. When we were in the new forest, there was there was a peacock that would go and nest in a trick not nest, we're going s toit in a tree and a peacock calling sounds like a child in distress. It goes and it would it would echo help, does it? It's honestly what it sounds like. I'm sure that the top production team could find the sound of a peacockling . And it would whistle across the wild and windy moor like the voice of Kathy come home wanting to be let in at the window is most distressing. Wow. It was borderline Monty Python. Bring out your dead, all of that. I'm not dead. Help Anyway, on the show, assuming I don't pass out from the rat fumes. Ratless. There is a rat in our kitchen. What am I going to do? Forty, we're absolutely right. What are you reviewing later? Well, I'm going to feast on rat, obviously later on. We're going to be reviewing the new live action masters of the universe Didn't know we needed it, but there it is. There's a new scary movie movie. It's scary movie AKA Scary Movie Six and also Savage House, which brings us to our particularly special guest . Yeah, Richard E. Grant . And there's his book on my bookshelf with I mean, he's done a number of books, but anyway, that was the first one. You talked to him for that one. I did with nails, yes. Lots of stories always with Richard E Grant and he's always a very fine guest . So we'll talk to him and in take two in take two we have a film which brilliantly the poster gives you a phonetic description of the title. So it is called Eruptia . And we'll be doing that. And also it literally says on the poster in phonetics, it explains it. And then Bridesmaids is back in cinemas for its fifteenth anni versary reissue once again reminding us just how old we all are. You can get take two with no more of our brilliant tads by heading to our Patreon page. We have we're getting people saying I,'d like to follow I'd like to be, you know, patron, I'd like to be Van Gardista, but I still like the ads that you do. Is it impossible to have the ads that you do, but not have the ads that are made by other people? To which the answer is no. I don't believe that facility actually exists, but thank you very much for your commitment. So last week on the program you had a lost ring discovered ring story. Here it is in there still here . So which is provoked an avalanche of information. Andy Grinnell , dear Boromir and Frodo, after hearing Mark's sad, obviously then happy, lost ring story. Let me tell you about our story. Eleven years ago, my son's first birthday , my wife lost her engagement ring in the gravel park of Chester Zoo when loading the Pram. We didn't notice it till later in the day when I managed to find a lovely group of seven local detectorists, metal detectorists, who volunteered their time scouring the area for four and a half hours. Well, no luck, and then the final twist was that the car park was entirely tarmac the next day. Sad times ensued. You would have to say that's that. Would you not until the dinosaurs return? So my wife ran a story in the local press just in case it had fallen anywhere else , but nothing. Fast forward, ten ten years years that's ten years and the Duke of Westminster decides to get married and a local woman in Chester wondered what type of engagement ring the bride had, so she searched it online and found our historic story. I'm not quite sure why the Duke of Westminster Chester anyway. This is how after all these years my wife got a phone call to say I think I have your engagement ring . She had found it earlier that fateful day at the zoo and quotes knew it was so beautiful it had to, have a st ory behind it, keeping it safe at home, believing one day the owner was destined to find it, which we did. Tarmac be damned. Destiny and kindness can change the world . Also, to make this missive film related , shouldn't Tuna be called Baby Grand Driver? Very good. Kind of works. That's very good. That's very good. So someone had found the ring and was keeping it until they found this story. Also, well, we're here. Isn't that a little bit like the Father Ted thing about the money was just resting in my account? Yes, that is also true. Elton has been in touch, dear Policrates and Amesis. This is Elton from Classics Chancellor reporting for Duty. Last week as Mark told the charming story of finding his grandmother's sign ring, grandfather's grandfather. Something triggered my classicist antenna. Okay, whatever that looks like . When he mentioned the folk tale of a woman throwing her engagement ring into the sea only to find it later inside a fish , it brought to mind a famous episode from Herodotus. Policrates, ruler of Samos, as you know Mark in the five thirties BC, formed an alliance with the Egyptian pharaoh Emesis II. Concerned by Polycrates' extraordinary good fortune, Emesis urged him to cast away his most treasured possession to avoid divine envy. Policrates obliged by throwing his signet ring into the sea. Days later a fisherman presented him with a large fish, and inside it was the ring. On hearing this,m Eesis ended their alliance convinced that such luck foretold a disastrous end, as indeed it did. To be clear, I'm not suggesting any morals for Mark here. This is strictly ancient Greek fatalism at work. You can always rely on the Greeks for a darker worldview. Not it'll be alright , but rather you can't judge a life as happy until it's over. Oh , thanks. I for one I'm looking forward to Nolan's Odyssey, annoying those who think three hundred is a do cumentary down with the Nazis stealing ancient Greek ideas without understanding them from Elton , from Classicists Chancellor. Fantastic. Fantastic. Yes. And you know already that we're going to get lots of people writing in after Odyssey saying can I just say that the swimming technique that they used again , which was inappropriate? Finally because we're not done with this yet. Neil says, Professors Enoch and Mungo, Mark half recalls the story about a ring returning to the owner vira fish. I think you might be recalling the story of St. Mungo, the son of St. Enoch and patron saint of Glasgow. This relates to the fish part of the Glasgow crest , which has a fish and a tree and a bird and a crown and what looks like the pope at the top or some bishop? I have a picture of it in front of me. Okay . This relates to the fish part of the Glasgow Crest and the mantra that every Glaswegian kid is taught. The bird that never flew , Mungo restored life to a pet robin that was accidentally killed by classmates. The tree that never grew, he rekindled a dead monastery fire using frozen hazel branches instead of wood . The fish that never swam, he found Queen angaret's lost wedding ring in the belly of a court salmon, proving her innocence to the king, and the bell that never rang he brought a miraculous bell back from a pilgrimage to Rome . Down with Bowser and up down left , right, left right BA for the rest of us . I'm not sure the BA bit is there . Yeah, no, I was it was sounding like Bernie the Bolt before that. It dropped down . Le aft bit a bit, right , fire . Anyway, we do have a peacock sound. Oh, so we 're tasked. Before we hear it, Mark, you do your peacock sound. Okay, this is what a peacock sounds like when it's calling there. Okay, and this is a real peacock Excuse me. Excuse you . That's uncannily close to So you are now a strutting peacock in our arms, Marl. Well, I always have been in many ways. But one of my many impressions actually closer to you're closer to wildlife than you are humans. It does sound like it's saying help when you said does it actually say help? That is the word that you hear. Just play that again, Don. Play it once more Help . It's clearly shouting help. It is and a particularly reedy, weedy voice for such a flamboyant, magnificent bird . Anyway, well be more strutting peacocks when we get to Richard E. Grant later in the show . But before we do that, there is a, I mean, I'm not even slightly interested in this film, unless of course you entice me in with your words. Tell us more. Masters of the universe, no thanks. Master of the thank you, no thanks. Media franchise from Mattel first came to the script, I think the first time. I should point out at the beginning that what I know or indeed care about Masters of the Universe is fairly small. So if I get any of these details wrong, forgive me. I'm a sixty three year old man, all right? I think the first live action adaptation was the eighties version, which had Frank Lange is he Langella or Langella Langella as Skeletor and Dolph Lundgren as He Man . So now we have a reboot which incidentally features a cameo callback in which the torch is passed to the next generation. This time , we have Nicholas Galatin as the central he man starring alongside and get this for the cast Idris Elber, Camilla Mendes, Alison Breed, James Purefoy, Kristen Wig and as Skeletor , Jared Let o, or as Skeletor, Jared Let o if we're going to do the pronunciation game. The funny thing about this was I got a message from Simon Brew, he of Film Stories saying that he thought that Master of the Universe was the first Jared Leto proof movie because it is perfectly possible to watch Master of the Universe without ever recognizing that it's Jared Let o because he doesn't have his face and his voice doesn't sound like him. So anyway that's a good thing, Internate. So the story starts in Eternia , where sensitive Prince Adam is transported to Earth after an attack by the forces of darkness and is transported through a wormhole , holding onto the sword of power, which he loses in the process. Cut forward fifteen years, Dorky Cheesecake Adam, played by Nicholas Galatine , is working in human resources in an office whilst still attempting to find his lost sword and at the same time simultaneously workshopping, you know, team building exercises . Of what he thinks might be the sword then turns up in a forbidden planet style store. If you've ever been to one of the forbidden planets, you know, comics, figures, characters, all that kind of stuff. And so now, once he's found this sword, he is reconnected with the old world of Eternia and must now join forces with the heroes that he left behind to fight Skeletor, Jared Leto or Skeletor Jared Let and to become the heman that his father always wanted him to be a muscle man in a leather skirt. Here is a clip Whoa . It is quite heavy so if you could just go yeah So how does it feel to be the mighty warrior ? All things considered , I feel great . Not quite sure what's happening in my shirt though . Where might pants? Do those come back or I have to buy a new pair every time? You're sixty two, by the way. Not so three. Well, I'm about to be sixty three, but anyway, so look, that's basically the tone of it. You know, so he suddenly turned into He Man with the thing and then oh where are my trousers or pants as they as they say? So this film has been a long time coming. There was a sequel was planned to the nineteen eighties film. It was dropped. It was then the idea was picked up again sometime in two thousand nine. There were multiple iterations of what they were going to do . I think various people were going to star in it. The Need Brothers were announcers or the Need Brother, Need Brothers announcers directors and co writers. Then the writes went to like various, I think Netflix and then Amazon and then Travis Knight came on board and then Nicholas Galaxy ended up getting anyway. So it's been going on for ages and one of those things it just kept turning up in the trade. So now the final film, as we have it now, credited as directed by Travis Knight written by Chris Butler, Aarony Adam,ney and D ave Callaham from a story by the Nees , Alex Litvak and Michael Finch. So uncle, Tom Cobble and all. The tone is essentially playful, colorful , lots of silly costumes, lots of silly characters brought to life through a mixture of pantomime dress up and shonky CG. And I should say that the shonkiness of the CG is particularly remarkable considering the mass ive amount of money that this cost, I mean it's somewhere between one hundred and seventy and two hundred million dollars . And you go, okay, but it is still ropey. The thing is, the whole tone of the film is so unserious It's like a kind of camp pantomime that in a way the Shonkey CG sort of like, well, of course the Shonkey CG is rubbish because the whole thing is it's a camp pantomime and nobody really cares whether that weird tiger, lion , funny creature looks like it's in there in the real world or whether it's just completely CG generated. The primary joke of it all is that the central character is a dork who specializes in group therapy and touchy feeling, all that sort of stuff, but then discovers that he needs to specialize in being a big butch he man wearing the leather skirt and smashing things with his sword power of. So he talksks like he wal out of a Bill and Ted movie, but he rumps around like, you know, Arnold or like Dolph Lundgren and the gag is the disconnect between the sword and sorcery environment and the dialogue , which sounds like it's out of a different film. And you know, some of the set pieces are smashy fun . Some of them are bargain basement, sub Star Wars dog fights. Many of them remind you how much better films were when people had to build sets and models rather than do things with CG. I mean, it is essentially a load of colourful nonsense. It's closer in tone to kind of super mario than it is to a superhero movie . And it's made with little enough commitment to any form of seriousness that it makes those most recent Wonder Woman movies look like now Voyager. On the plus side , I do think that Nicholas Galaxy has got Dorky Charm. And as I said before, and as Simon Brew pointed out , Jared Leto is unrecognizable . And it is perfectly possible to watch the movie and not realize that you're watching a Jared Letter movie, which is why I think Simon used that phrase. On the downside , it's at least ninety minutes too long. I mean, there's no film This flimsy needs to be one hundred and forty minutes long. It's just silly. And it's so jam packed with colorful explosions that nothing ever actually packs a punch. That said, I did laugh a few times . When we were waiting in the foy beforehand, they were doing because the soundtrack is it's Daniel Pemberton. It's got contributions from Brian May . And then there's the darkness involvement. So you know, everything is just it's just like, let's just throw everything at it. Let's just throw absolutely everything at it and every sort of two or three minutes make a joke about, isn't this ridiculous? I can't find my trousers. That's basically it . It's a lot of money to spend to make that joke , but I think it is the best Jared Leto movie since he got Hughie Lewis and the news American psycho there's a guy called Ed Hyde. I think this was on Blue Sky. Okay , who said, I can't wait to hear what Kermina May make of this and he's obvious he's photoshopped or he's copied this from X where obviously you and I don't go anymore, but Max from Quebec is on X and he says it is with intense sorrow and deep regret that I must report to you that Jared Let o gives his best performance of his career in this movie. Is Max from Quebec, correct? Well, right . Yeah, I think I think we're on the same page. As I said, I mean , it really is one of those things in which you could you could because even the voice doesn't sound sort of jarred letter y. I know that we have to say leto because I know this has been pointed out, but I'm just I'm just not going to start doing that . I was literally listening to the voice at one point and thinking, who on earth does that sound like? And I realized that hes sound like Jermaine Clement . So it's almost like you're watching an animated skull with the voice of Jermaine Clement, but it turns out to be Jared Leto, Leto. Correspondents atevin Co Mvenayer. com if you want to join in still to come after the Break Scary Movie six Savage House with our guest Richard E. Grant back in just a moment Okay, well if there are any other wildlife sounds that you want Mark to do impressions of by the way , having heard his uncanny ab ility to be a peacock , then Mark because he doesn't do Twitter, but he could do Twitter the day, which I think Radio afforded for a while Mark, could you be a starling or Mark could you be a blackbird? Well, this would be quite fun. Just let us know correspondence Kerd Combox Office top ten beginning confusingly Act ten passenger . Which I liked. I thought it was a well told sort of folk horror story and I've got a thing about cars at night and woodsy settings. So I enjoyed it . Number nine here number sixteen in the States is Power Ballad. I've got an email here from Steven. Great. So I'm a longtime listener here, first time caller, Irishman in Lisbon here. Right. I've worked years in the music industry. I was listening to your review of Power Ballad and had already seen the trailer. There's something about it that I find troublingly sad. Okay, I will keep this brief. The film very clearly appears to tell the true story of how an unknown struggling Irish singer songwriter. You don't need to mention his name. Meta struggling major pop star, don't mention his name either. One evening, drinks were had, stories were shared, and according to the Irish songwriter's account, he effectively handed over what would become that pop star's biggest ever hit , which I'm not going to mention here. Even Mega Pop Star has laterally acknowledged some truth to this story. Now there are ins and outs to that story and we don't need to get into all of them here, but the result was that the pop star became a superstar from the song, while the songwriter never received a credit on the song, but did get a small payment, I believe. Whether people believe that version of events or not, it is hard to deny that it would have a profound effect on someone's life and psyche. Seeing a song you had such a big hand in had such a big hand in becomes such a phenomenon. What strikes me now is that not only does the song writer who was very young at the time feel he has lost recognition of the song itself, but it seems that even his story itself has been taken from him and repurposed. It's like he's been robbed twice. When Mark reviewed Michael, he raised the question of how you can make a film without acknowledging the elephant in the room. For me, a similar issue exists here, regardless of where you stand on the original dispute, surely some acknowledged acknowledgement by the filmmakers of the songwriter's story should exist. Love the show, Steven and Lisbon. Well, I don't know if the filmmakers have ever been asked about that particular story. And I also don't know the internet. I mean, I've heard a version of the story that you're talking about. I actually think that in the case of Power Ballad, it is it's a far more general story than that. I mean, I clearly there are parallels, but I mean, it's like there are parallels with many stories. Number eight here, eleven in America is the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Number seven here thirteen in the States is Tuna someone called looks as though they're called Dumcop row Bunch of numbers by our YouTube channel. I quite enjoyed it. Not particularly as tightly constructed as the typical crime drama, but the characters here are flawed, very compelling to watch, needed more dust in Hoffmann. If Yuri was more menacing, Baggy there could have been bigger stakes, but even he had some scruples not to destroy his own operation like crime bosses in other movies anyway , I enjoyed it more than Dumb Cop Crow. Yeah, I think you and I both enjoyed it. I thought the performances were very strong. It was an interesting interview because I thought that Leo Woodolf found it quite hard to talk about the film , which is interesting because then having then watched the film, his performance is completely convincing. I mean, he really does convince as that character. He does. I think it's a good film. Number six is the sheep detective still there . Yeah, charming, lovely, weird, shouldn't work, does work, can't explain why. Strange old world. Devil where's Prada two at number five? Yeah, doesn't work, isn't weird, isn't strange, looks like it was put together on a draft board by a whole bunch of people going, yeah, well there's that character they like and there's that character they like and there's that character. Now give us a narrative that joins them all together. It's not without a certain amount of charm because when you have that much talent on screen , it's impossible for it not to work, but it isn't any good. Number four here, two over there, obsession . So there is a long discussion going on at the moment about, you know, are we living in a golden age of horror certainly there are a lot of very, very interesting horror movies around at the moment and we'll get to the biggest one of them at number one. The thing I like about obsession is that it is a story which has a supernatural sort of framework to it, but actually it is about something which is very down to earth. It is a story about coercion and a story about control and a story about domestic abuse that is told as a fantasy I wish be careful what you wish for monkeys paw style horror tale. And I thought it was terrific. Michael is still hanging around at number three here, number four over there. I thought it was still terrific . Yeah, number two, here, three over there is Star Wars, the Mandalorian and Grogu. Tim on an email. The biggest indication that the film was a big episode is that it didn't explain the Mandalorian's stakes. There's no explanation of what he's giving up to Father Grogu, but it is kind of about what he's like in terms of how he makes different choices and takes different risks. I think this was dictated into a voicemail . I saw it early in the West End view and I have to say that of the six of us in the room, one bloke behind me snored audibly through the midsection. As a Star Wars film, it had all the themes of the saga, but they were briefly explored in action adventure. The middle bit where the healing and the bonding happened was quite different from anything I've seen in Star Wars, so it was a proper Star Wars film to me, but visually a lot of fun and plenty of references for the fans. It's not Empire Strikes Back, but it's arguably more accomplished than solo. Up with a new Republic and down with the galactic empire, says Tim . I mean, I would draw listeners attention to the review of Child One , who's a big fan of the series and said quite rightly I think that, there are things in it that are charming if you like the series, most specifically the puppet work, but it does look like half our episodes bolted together. When you read that email out , you said the cost thing involved to Father Grogu. And I thought Father Grogu is a priest. Oh no sorry, father a verb as opposed to father a noun . Yeah. Correct. Yes, absolutely right. And number one, so here's the thing. Number one here and number one there is backrooms . Yes . So this is this huge breakout hit from a feature first timer who, as we said last week, A twenty one's youngest feature direct or, either twenty or twenty one depending on A twenty four . What did I say? A twenty one. I say A twenty one? Yes. A thirty four, which is the road from Cornwall into London, A twenty one is the one that goes around the way A twenty four. Wow, can't believe that I said that just because he is twenty or twenty one, that's what my brain was doing. And I thought it was really well done and I hadn't seen the viral web series beforehand, but I watched the film and I saw an interview with him and then I went back and saw some of the viral web series and I can see how the two things connect together. But the thing that impressed me the most is if you don't know anything about it because of the way the narrative was construct ed, you're led into it by characters who don't know anything about it. And then I also mentioned last week that there's been a lot of well Cane Parsons can't possibly have directed it because that's just not possible because he's twenty twenty one. And this is a bit like, you know, to quote that line from Clockwork Orange, it was old age having a go at youth . I saw him interviewed and he sounded like he knew exactly what he was doing and backrooms has become a big hit . Someone who appears to be called Gilbert Toxic Squall , so like Gilbert. A lot of people are complaining about the script, the services on backrooms, but that messy writing actually leads to an interesting point. The film ends up connecting with real life in a way that feels even scarier than the movie itself. The backrooms were born on the internet, which was supposed to be this big utopia where everyone could connect. Yet the ultimate nightmare that came out of it is not nuclear war aliens or some giant apocalypse, it is complete isolation in empty corridors that feel like bureaucracy turned into architecture . That says a lot about modern fear. Maybe the scariest thing is not the body dying but the mind becoming irrelevant. Eternity is not fire and brimstone, it is an office floor with no exit. In that sense, Parsons film feels less like fiction and more like a very honest documentary with a yellow filter. When a building falls apart, demolition solves the issue. But when the ruin is your own life inside an endless cubicle. ex Whoactly do you call to complain about the old carpet smell? Good luck figuring that out. Okay, very good. All right. That's a good idea. I like that email very much, and I like I like the comparison with the onset of the internet. Very good. And Frankie Ward has sent us an email well known esports gaming and entertainment presenter and as an interview with Parsons on her YouTube YouTube dot com slash Frankie Ward any way. Hello, no clip mark and backrooms lurker Simon. As anyone who works in gaming and got to go as someone who works in gaming and got to go to a preview screening of backrooms, I thought it might be useful to give a backstory for backrooms. Director Caine Parsons started creating his soon to be viral takes on the backroom's creepy pastor of the teens forum age, creepy pastor basically an internet horror folklore , catch all the term for horror content on the internet. Apparently it came from Four Chan. That's originally where it came from. And is a version of copy pasta, which is which was copy and paste when you're taking a bunch of text and oh that's where that comes from. Okay, I did cite the creepy pasta origin in my review. Right. Thank you. I was just updating it because thank you Frankie. Yeah , makes reference too the Parsons made his original shorts using open source design software called Blender and with the nineteen nineties camcorder effect, it's uncanny at the start of the original film. And I think that's also why the film is at its most confident when we're exploring the seemingly limitless backrooms. The film doesn't have enough of a reason for Tuitel Edgeforce Clark to be pulled into the back rooms, a flickering light doesn't quite have a fill up the basement and discover a portal through a wall compulsion to it. But once his camcorder is on, his cohorts in tow, the film shows the potential of the world Parsons has built. And I hope he gets to see his nine episode limited ser ies he's hoped for fulfilled, says Frankie Wood, Frankie, thank you very much. Thank you. Can I just say nine episodes doesn't feel like a limited series? That feels like a very, very long series. That's not limited in any way. Part of the limits to ten. That's all. Single figures only, but yes, you can go to nine. Anyway, more discussion on current films in our overflow car park on Take two, available via Patreon. More in a moment . So I guess this week needs no introduction . And then whenever that phrase is used, there is then a very long introduction . You're genuinely not going to do it this time. Okay ? Because all you need to know is it's Richard E. Grant. He has a new movie out called Savage House , you'll hear our conversation with Richard after this clip. So It's a request from the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. They're to begin their year Yorkshire tour , and one of their hosts, Lord Veron , has apparently succumbed to a grizzly burda that pocks What? What what is it? They need a place to dine and sleep in ten days time and are curious we can call my No No , just And that is a clip from Savage House. I'm delighted to say that we've been joined by one of its stars, well it's star, really. Richard E. Grant is with us. Hello, Richard, how are you, sir? Very good. Thank you, Syon. Thank you, Mark. Nice to see you. It's a very nice linen shirt you have. Can I just compliment you on that? And whilst we're pointing at things on my bookshelf here with nails, the film di aries of Richard E. Grant , which you signed I think you signed to everybody back in the day as You Mad Richard E. Grant in the last century . Yes, I'm old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Anyway, Richard, very nice to speak to you again, introduced us to Savage House and also Sir Chauce, Sir Chaucey , your character, so just take a take it away It's an eighteenth century rakes progress man who has enormous appetites and pays the price for that. He marries , you know, he's a Welsh working class upstart who marries into the English aristocracy and leads an utterly debauched life of enormous excess and as you two boys are old enough to remember Barry Linden, it struck me as kind of Barry Linden or mescaline May I just say before we go any further, I sent a message to Simon because I had seen the film before him and one of the phrases I used was Barry Lyndon with leeches. That's true. A little more speed . There are leeches, yes, indeed. There are leeches because my character suffers from gout . So I have leaches put onto my infected toes. Your character suffers from gout. Your gar acter also suffers from gangrene and during the course of the movie you go from a state of poor health to a state of worse health . It is a movie that festers as you watch . It does . And you're referring to a scene where just before this dinner that the whole movie is based around the anticipation of Duke and Duchess of Devon coming for dinner . I have to have my arm amputated . So it certainly tips into Monty Python like mode when limbs are coming off. Okay, so give us the setup of what's happening with your character, who is coming to visit and why have they been thrown completely ecstatic disarray as a result of a letter that they receive? They receive a letter saying that in the middle of this pox meltdown whatever quarantine that the Duke and Dusty of Devonshire would like to come and stay in their house for a few days. So they don't really have enough money to afford looking after these aristocrats , but they pawn every last jewel that they have in order to pay for it, do the house up, get the best food and chefs that they can possibly muster . And inevitably, you know what's going to happen The people who say they're going to come may not come and in the midst of that this character Chaun sees alcoholism and gout and the other thing, stuff happening on his arm, Gangreen sets in after a duel in which he's wounded , so his arm has to be locked off on the day that the Devonshires are about to arrive and have dinner. And why is it such a big deal that the Devonshires? Who are the Devonshirs? Are they really that important? This world of Chauce is so enamored of trying to be pass himself off as an aristocrat and be accept ed that he thinks that this is his final chance to I suppose the equipment would be , I don't know, if Brad Pitt and his wife wanted to come and have dinner with you and you were living in the middle of nowhere or the current king and queen said that they were coming to visit you and you lived in the outer Hebreides or something. Maybe this would get people excited and willing to sacrifice everything they have in order to entertain as royal as possible. It's not a documentary, Mr. Cavaud . Now we should say, Richard that you Chauncey is married to the wonderful Clairefoy who we've spoken to a number of times on the show. Hello to her dad, who always writes in and says, How about getting my daughter on your show again ? But you and Claire Floyd clearly not only get on very well in the film, but your characters do love each other and you go like hellflather into chaos. Yeah, against all odds , these characters fall in love with each other . She's an aristocrat who marries a lowly Welsh upstart and because she didn't want to be fallen into the trap of being an aristocrat's wife and leading a very dull embroidery away life. So Chaucey is the guy who's full of life and excitement and extreme excess. So that is what attracts her to him . And luckily because it's not always the case , that the chemistry or connection you have with somebody else in real life, if that translates into a screen partnership, then that's the real bonus of it. And frankly, I never thought that at the ripe age of sixty seven as I was then three years ago, I would get a lead in a movie. So it felt like he's on a double bonus. Yeah . And can you explain the kind of the social significance here Richard? There are a number of references throughout the movie to there's an outbreak of something that's going on. There's a Jackabite uprising and also there's an eclipse , which we're all waiting for. So what's going on outside of the house? Well, it's basically the eighteenth century version of COVID . So everybody's in lockdown. And you'd have to ask Peter Glance, the writer director about the significance of the eclipse . I suppose because they were obsessed with science and discovering the nature of the new world being discovered at that point , the eclipse was an extraordinary event as it would be now, but I think even more so then with the invention of telescopes. And what is the third thing you asked me? I'm trying to remember this Jacob the Jacobite uprising. The Jacobite uprising, I think is probably what's going on in America at the moment with Trump dividing the nation and what is happening here on our own island with people being very divided about the politics, ready to turn on a hair pin and take to the streets and set things alight . I don't think any 's really changed in that department. There was a quote from your writer director who said, I love period films. They allow us to be a step removed to look in the mirror and see ourselves and hopefully laugh at ourselves without the preconceived baggage of modern life. And what you're saying is that this is an eighteenth century story , but it's about today. Oh, I would never be so so portentious to say that, but I think you just did it doesn't really change that much, does it? No . Weed and social upward mobility, all of those things are rampant . So whether this was set in Wall Street in the nineteen eighties in the seventeen eighties, I don't think anything really changes except for the way that people dress. And I certainly have a wig that is about fifteen feet tall . I love wearing . So at one point, Claire Foy says we're going to have to have the ceilings raised if your wigs get any larger. So in that period, the men's clothing was far more flamboyant and peacock like than anything that the women could come up with. So that was a huge delight too to be kitted out in all that stuff. Did you arrive on set Richard flamboyant and shouty? Or did you have to be encouraged to dial it up because you are magnificent throughout the film? Well, thank you very much. That's very generous of you to say Simon. There's no way that you can do this part going at it half measure. And mercifully we'd had rehearsals on the first floor of a pub in North London in advance starting doing the shoot, which you knew that you couldn't you couldn't sort of go to half measure. And the great advantage of wearing these huge wigs , white makeup, beauty spot, ruffled clothes and high heels in these actual great historic houses that we filmed in . It sort of gives you the license and the courage to go for it, but when you arrive in your civies at five o'clock in the morning , every single day I did think, how the hell am I going to, you know, try and do this? But you have to have to take a great leap at it. And how different is your character to Saltburn, Sir James Katten Howard , because you do seem to do these roles magnificently well, I just think you somehow there's something special with having you playing one of these aristos. And I think you're going to are you in Queen of Fashion soon? I think so there's another one. I am in Queen of Fashion . So what is it that do you particularly enjoy them? What is it? Is it your is it your voice? Is it your manner? Is it your bearing? What is it? That is for somebody else to decide and to analyz e or casting director. I have no idea. The best way of my answer is that the first screen role that I ever did forty years ago this summer with N ai, I played such an extreme character that I think that if I'd begun my screen career playing an uptight butler like in the remains of the day, I would have had a completely different career trajectory. But because of that first thing being so extreme and vituative . I suppose that's inevitably led me in the direction that I played but it's I find it very hard to analyze yourself. It's how other people see you. So if I'm offered a pod line, then I think look great. May I offer a suggestion? I think that one of the things that is key to this the quality and the nature of your voice . When I wasad ati Ro One in the nineteen nineties , you very kindly recorded a load of interstitials for us for our film review show that we've then used for four years because you have a particularly strong voice . And it's interesting because of course you grew up in Swaziland. The voice that you have now is a voice that you have worked on and developed and like Morgan Freeman or like other this voice didn't arrive out of nowhere. You have a remarkable instrument in your voice and it has fitted particularly well to roles, whether it's Wythnell or this . And it is an unusually versatile instrum ent, I think. I've never been told that Mark, and I'm blushing with kind of embarrassment and delight at the same time. Thank you. Nobody has ever said that to me. Thank you. And just at the mention of Swaziland, before we finish, Richard, I just want to put this on the table again. I have mentioned this to you, but years ago , and this has cropped up in some of your storytelling . Mark mentioned Swaziland. I used to share a room at university with a guy called Becketemba Gametzi, whose father was the last minister of who's the first minister of education in independent Swaziland. After myself, your father was the last minister of education in British Run, Swaziland, correct? Yes. Yes. And when you tell the story, and when you tell the story of your father's funeral, and a priest throws himself into the grave to try and raise your father up from the de ad. That's Becky Tembergamets' brother who is the priest. So this is this is my unique link to your story, Richard. That is absolutely extraordinary. And it is totally true . Becky had come back from doing an evangelical course in America and he was very young and impressionable and he misguidedly believed that he could raise my father from the dead, jumped into the grave, undid the casket and tried to raise him from the dead and then he had to be consoled and dragged out of the grave because my father, you know, weighing sixty nine pounds or dying of lung cancer lay inert. Yes. He taught me some is it Saswati, I think the language? I can still say Lalag i Maginib a, which I think is good night mother and father. Would that be right? Thank you . And might I take this opportunity to say to any listeners enjoying this if you haven't seen Wahwa, do because that's a really, really interesting evocation of that particular period that Richard is responsible for and is I think one of the films that you made that gets overlooked. Thank you very much. Thank you. And Richard are you on stage next, is it hay fever in the West End? I am with Christine Brownsky. No cards hay fever . It starts in September. When was the last time you were on stage in the West End? I did my Fair Lady at the Chicago Opera House in twenty seventeen. Okay, playing Henry Hayes. So if you're going to go and see hay fever, an old coward's hay fever , turn your phone off, otherwise you know there'll be an hell to pay. You know how to behave. Richard E. Grant, always a great pleasure. Savage House is his new movie. Richard, thank you so much for your time this morning. Thank. Thank you you, Simon , Mark. Thank you. He has a great smile, doesn't he? Not only he's a great actor with a wonderful voice, as you pointed out, but also when he grins, you're thinking, okay, a little bit of sunshine in your life. Also magnificent hair, magnificent hair . That is true. And when you look at the old photographs of him because I've got one here for the with nails, his hair's kind of exactly I. mean, he's got more gray , but it's all there. Look at that. That's all amazing. Lead a head. He looks great. He's always very watchable. Tell us what you think about Savage House. Well, so just to recap because I mean, obviously we just explained it, but just to recap for the purp oses of the review. So this is Savage House is a British black comedy period drama from Peter Glanza, the writer director who previously did the longest week in twenty fourteen and was and went on to be one of the co writers on Captain America Brave New World . So the best way to describe this is it kind of comes on like a crowd and I know this because I had written this to you because I'd seen the film before you had and you said vaguely what's it like? I said, It's like a cross between the draftsman's contract, the young poisoner's handbook, The Favorite, the Crown and Saltburn , and it also, as the thing that I cited , it's a bit Barry Linden with leeches, which is a phrase that I that I used in that entry, but I liked it. So it's set in eighteenth century England. I think it's seventeen fifteen, time of Jacobite unrest, outbreaks of the Pox, as you said . And Richard Egrant is the hideously bewigged and slowly festering , as he said in the interview, he's quite revealing in the interview because he told you what happens . Sir Chaucey Savage, who is a Chancer who's married? Is he Chauce or Chaucey? Chaucey. He's Chaucey , Chaucey. He's married now Lady Savage, thus acquiring her wealth without ever being able to shed his own humble beginnings. And we see sort of flashbacks to him as a boy from very humble beginnings and he keeps having these visions of pigs everywhere . And he longs to be taken seriously by Posh society , but he lives in this mansion that is crumbling and his finances are crumbling and , his body is everything's like the fall of the House of Usher . And then this note arrives saying that this couple who you said yourself, it's the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, right? Yes . Why is that such a big deal? Why is that such a big deal? And as Richard Grant said in that interview, well just because he just wants any social upage that he can get . They say they're going to come and stay. Can they be accommodated? And so his entire life and the life of the whole household falls into disarray as they attempt to prepare for the staying and the feasting of this couple who they consider to be so high up the social ladder that they will do anything and in preparing for it, and it's very much like we know from the beginning, it's going to be like waiting for God o. They are just ruining their lives even further. Claire Foy's character is having to sell all the jewelry that she's been hanging onto. You also made an interesting point that the funny thing is is that the couple at the center of it, the couple played by Claire Floyd and Richard E. Grant, both of whom incidentally, I could watch read the phone book, but both of whom I think are having an absol ute riot doing this . Weirdly, despite the fact that everything is falling apart and everything is crumbling and everything is rotting from the inside and they're all fornicating with oth ers , they sort of do love each other. In a really kind of bizarre way there is this relationship with the harbors, Claire's character keeps saying he didn't lead me in and stop. I chose him because he was exc iting and different and weird and that's what I wanted. He was my he was my choice. But as I said, everything is falling apart. There is also this weird Barry Linden thing going on. So the cinematographer is Adriana Goldman , and there are certain shots, particularly the dueling scene, in which it's the landscape, the mist . But it's almost like someone has taken the aesthetic of Barry Linden drained all the life colour out of it and replaced it with a kind of pestilence , a sort of pustules and darkness and gray and there is thing, there is gangrene . There are full chamber pots, there are entire piles of poo . There is an awful lot of handsomely heeled shoes stepping into steaming piles of poo and there's lots of inflamed spots. And the interesting thing about it is that all of this kind of matches the dyspepsia of the drama on the comedy. I mean, there are I wrote this down I was going there are yucks as in comedy yucks and there are yucks as in Er that's gangrene and poo . I mentioned that thing in the interview about director saying I like period films because it means that you can look at and laugh at yourself without feeling disconnected. And Richard E Grant in that interview said this thing about, well, you know, it is very much like when you asked about the Jacobite thing. And he said, Well, it's like Trump's America, isn't it? And then when I said to him, So what you're saying is that it's a period film, but it's actually about today. And then he said, Well, I wouldn't possibly say that. Richard, I think you did just say that. The tagline for the film is polite society has never been so savage, which pretty much lays out the bill of fare , which is these people are well from the very thing about the name that the savage house and there is a there is a savagery at the heart of this social climbing. It's it's a little bit like Gromb meets waiting for God o. It's the kind of well in that particular case you'd be like the bourgeois satire. The thing about these people who are desperately trying to crawl their way up the social ladder and they will do it even if it involves cutting off their own arm in order to impress visiting not even royalty , just visiting poshos who may or may not actually turn up . So the thing that I enjoyed most about it was how much I thought that Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy ing were having a ball. And I've not had this rule in the past, which is the more people enjoy themselves on set, the less you enjoy watching it. This isn't the case here. I do think Richard Irgant has a tremendous voice and a tremendous screen presence. It was interesting that he himself raised with Nell in that interview. And there is something of that grandiloquence, that pompous peac king, you know, that incredible sense of self unearned self esteem . But there is also all the way through this, I mean, actually it is true of with Nill and I because they are living a pestilent existence. That thing when the heating goes off and he covers himself from head to foot in deep heat in order in order to warm himself up. So I can see exactly why Richard E. Grant loved doing it. I think it's really important to say that if Claire Foy wasn't as good as she is , the thing wouldn't work because through her , his ridiculousness is kind of mediated because the thing that the drama has going for it is that in a weird way, despite everything about him that is rancid she loves him and because she loves him , you sort of sort of sort of love him too even but you know, you know what? I mean, I don't mean you don't actually love him, but you but you tolerate the pomposity, the ridiculousness, the beeaknessw the powder, the powder and the beauty spot that looks like you're literally sticking on a bit of the black death onto the side of your film. I mean, it's a fetid film, isn't it? Oh ye yeahah,. And if you tolerate this, then obviously your children will be mentioned we should mention the lower classes led very well by Bell Pauline and is it Bel Pauli? I think it's Pauli? Is it okay? And Jack Farthing anyway, I thought, you know, so they're downstairs . Well, Richard and Claire are upstairs. Just occasionally because Claire's doing a posh voice, I think it's the queen who are married to the queen and the queen should have more jewelry than this. But anyway it was good fun. It was nice to speak to Richard E. Grant if you see it. Let us know what you think. Correspondents at Codemo. com before we get to Mark's hotly anticipated review of Scary Movie six . Quick reminder you can get take one and take two ad free, plus our bonus take ultra every fortnight, plus access to the Wit ament community if you go via Patreon. That's the thing you have to remember. And now we step with how would how would Richard E. Grant do? It wouldn't be gay abandoned, but he would triumphant fabulousness . With an air of fetid fuckin' disgust . Fetted fuckin' disgust. The light benefit. Here we go . Yeah . Hey Mark, you know I love karaoke I do Can't get enough of it. Well the, unthinkable happened at the weekend. I was in Shobi's North London's top karaoke night spot the acoustic larda on Saturday, and after unsuccessfully attempting the intro to danger zone top gun four or five times they k'ickded me out. Apparently I'd exceeded the maximum number of logins attempts So to cheer myself up the next day I went to the pet shop, the companion Attelier. Pst, said the owner . Do you want to buy a talking centipede? Well, who doesn't? So I slapped a tenor down on the counter and took the little fella home. A bit later I said, Hey centipede, do you want to pop to the artisanal pub the fermentation project for a pint . There's no answer . Oh, excuse me. I said you want to come to the pub with me, little fellow. Still nothing. So up the volume Mr Centipede , do you want to come to the pub? Then came from the tiny little box a voice . I heard you the first time I'm just putting my shoes on Centripede . Yes. Very long walk, a very long walk up for a centipede. Incredible lobby. Yay Still to come, Mark's review of Scary Movie Six plus any Watts on business in just a moment . Now the Muppet game has really caught fire mentioned it a few weeks ago and everybody wants to cast films where you replace everyone with muppets but you keep one central character . Nicola T. In Bruges with the Muppets, please. Ray , Colin Farrell . We'll keep him. Ken, Fozzie Bear, Chloe, Miss Piggy, Harry, play by Animal, Canadian guy and partner Statner and Waldorf. Animal Chasing Ray through the nooks and cr annies would be amazing. Mark Pipkin, Dear Statler and Waldorf, long terminists, etc. The film that immediately came to mind for the Muppet game was Whiplash . JK Simmons playing the ruthless Terrence Fletcher as the only non muppet cast member, an animal playing Miles Teller's character and June Neyman . And the fact that he's already an accomplished drummer means that he can avoid the usual months of preparation for such a role. Whilst there are not many other major characters in the film Miss Piggy would be excellent as the girlfriend who Andrew discards to concentrate on his music . And with Kermit a good fit for his supportive father, the other music students can be played by members of the electrichem May, Dr. Teeth at Al, with Fozzie Gonzo and other muppets filling out the numbers for the band scene . There's loads of these. We'll do some more . Do you want one more? No, should we get let's do one more? Yeah, go one more.. Okay Florian . I couldn't believe how attuned I was with Simon on his second spontaneous reaction. That is to say Wuthering Heights. When I watched it two months ago, very early on in the screening, I thought Margot Robbie's Cathy with all her spoiled brat petulance reminded me so much of Miss Piggy. I simply could not get it out of my head for the this is going to actually spoil the movie. If you go and see it again not even the weird fleshy bedroom scene I was still thinking of the muppets. Henceforth, all attempts at conveying any sense of tragedy or gothic obsession were undermined and I found the flawed movie simply hilarious. Take it to the Nazis, hello to Jason Isaac . Muppets do Peter Pan and he's hooked. How about that? Laura Girls Lawyer Florian. Corresponding to Cobra May. com. Let's get to the business in hand which says scary movie six . Although actually scary movie, I mean it is the sixth one, but it's calledary Scvie Mo . So , the Scary Movie franchise has grossed nearly a billion dollars worldwide. The first two scary movie movies were directed by Kin Ivory Way and co written by Sean and Marlon Wayans. The first one cost cost nineteen million, took two hundred seventy eight million . The second one cost forty five took one hundred and ninety one . Then the Wayans is left or erusted from the franchise , and airplane director David Zucker took over for three and four scary movies three and four, which were co written by well, not Jack Thorne because that's no other one must be it must be Craig Mason Craig Mazen. Okay it's becoming ridiculous, isn't it? It's I think he wrote my phone book anyway. So the new film, Scary Movie is the first time the Wayans have been back there since Scary Movie two and it is described as quote the spiritual sequel to the first two films the spiritual sequel to the first two scary movies, meaning practically that there are entire generations of Wayans involved in the credits . And the action also includes a lot of jokes about the Wayans being pushed out of the franchise and then some of the actors in the franchise continuing to work in the franchise despite the fact that they should have jumped ship because the Weyans weren't there. And there's also a very, very unfunny long running joke, which I'm setting up because it's in the clip about a character being called Tuesday as opposed to Wednesday for contractual reasons. Here's a clip . We bag . There's a serial killer on the loop. Hello Tuesday . I have been preparing for this for years . Hello, mother. You look like . Should we hug? I really want to, but I'm a Republican now so I'm supposed to be racist. Oh girl, I think all white people are racist anyway. Come here. Okay. Okay, so this I suppose reboot is what it is. It's directed by Michael Tiddy. I think it's Tiddy's T ID ES, written by Marlon W Sayhnea,un Wayne's, Kin Ivery Way ne, Craig Wayneans and Rick Alvarez , Marlon Sean, other returning actors, Anna Farris, Regina Hall , a whole bunch of people . Essentially group of friends are real friends and friend emies, reunited because the masked killer from the way back ghostface is back again. So the film opens with a cameo from Tiana Taylor making a one battle after joke Pussy Don't Pop , which is a joke that refers back to a film that was fairly recent , but all that stuff has already been and gone because we did a whole bunch of stuff about it and then it won, you know, best film and blah blah blah blah blah blah and things so but because obviously it's been the nature of films. If you're making a joke about a film that's that recent, it's going to immediately be out of date. So it opens with a joke that's out of date about a film that has nothing to do with horror that was a talk of the town last year. It ends with a joke in the credit sequence about a little handed killer which kind of combines a previous callback character with what I think is a joke about long legs , but I wasn't entirely convinced. And then in between we get all the stuff we had before. So the joke's about the rules of horror movies because the whole thing is, you know, was scream and then the scary movie was the parody of scream. So about the rules of horror movies are stupid and the jokes about how formulale the nkature of sequels and reboots is and the jokes about how stupid the whole thing is oh and also incidentally a joke about white chicks. White chicks the film , which wasn't funny the first time round. We also get the jokes about the character who's gay but says he isn't gay. We get a character who's trans. We get a character who's got a small Mr Happy. We get a lot of humorless stuff about wokeism which feels out of date. We get a bunch of stuff about Ice which bizarrely feels out of date. We get some stuff about horror movies not winning Oscars, which is like just feels like yeah and here's the essential problem the main problem with the scary movie movies is this They began life as a parody of scream, which is itself a parody of horror movies. It is a smart scream is a smart sin illiterate parody of horror movies from a director who knows the genre inside out . Now, there's a program that I do on ready for with Ellen E. Jones. We did an episode not so long ago about paradise . And Ellen interviewed Kin and Ivory Wayans , and he said he didn't like horror movies at all. Wasn't particularly interested in horror movies. And that is the problem because the best paradies are generated by people that love the source material. You think about Mel Brooks doing young Frankenstein or doing Westerns in Blazing Saddles, or doing hitchcocky and chillers in high anxiety , or you think about the Zucker brothers doing airplane, which actually began life as a ser ious film because airplane is technically a remake of I think it's called zero hour and they took the script of zero hour and then put jokes into it. And then weirdly when David Zucker then took over the scary movie mov ies, they weren't good because I don't think he likes horror movies either. As far as the way and stuff is concerned, if you go back to things like Hollywood Shuffle and I'm going to get you sucker , all the best gags in the new Sarycv Mieo which, incidentally , I think you could argue is the best film in the series, although that's not a recommendation . All the best gags in it are from that previous era when they when you had things like, I'm going to get you soccer in which they were jokes about, you know, racism and stereotypes and white liberalism and that joke that we heard in the bit from the trailer it's okay, I don't mind you're Republican. I think all white people are racist. That stuff is the funniest stuff in the film. The problem is that that stuff is completely unconnected to the horror stuff, although one could argue that the very beginning of scary movie, there was the scary movie series, there was a joke about what happens to black people in horror movies is that they're always the first victims, but that isn't true and it particularly isn't true if you're making a film which has got jokes about get out and has got jokes about nope Those jokes aren't they're not landing anymore because they're not landing anymore because the thing that they're laughing at is not true . So I didn't laugh . I could see how several of the broader gags could play perfectly decently to a Friday night audience, but they're nothing to do with being gags about horror movies . And that is a problem for an ongoing horror spoof series. Wes Craven said and I interviewed Wes many times that when he saw the first scary movie, his response was wow this town moves fast . I think that this sixth installment in the Scary Movies series proves that it just doesn't move fast enough. And incidentally, the Scream sequels let scream down really badly. So it's not like there's a moral high ground here. It's not like the Scream series is up here in the scary movie series down here. Right now they're all just sort of swilling around in the same slop and particularly when you're in a box office top ten in which you've got things like backrooms in which you've got things like obsession , this just all feels like it's very, very tired and old. And there are some crowd policing gags that are in there that are are Wayne's brother's gags and they're nothing to do with horror and it's just having to bolt them around the horror references is just tedious. It's a comedy I didn't laugh. I can see that some people will . As I said, I think it's probably arguably the best in the series and it's rubbish. Will it be number one ? Well, it'll have to dislodge backrooms and that's an interesting that's an interesting scenario. But I think it'll open strongly because they because it's, you know , it's crowd pleasing stuff in the lowest possible common denominator way . Correspondents at Kerbernamo. com if you see it and you would like to pass on some information which is also where you can send your voice notes and videos to tell us anything that is on around you or you're responsible for which is cinematic or cinema adjacent, for example, Sam from the Sheerbourne Festival. Hello, Mark Hello Sam. On Sunday the seventh of June at six o'clock the Sherb ourne Cinema Gloucester, a local bastion of independent film culture is hosting a very special evening of short documentaries of a Stradfilm Festival. Continue its ten year anniversary celebrations, expect vivid, humane, properly cinematic storytelling, exploring community, time and resilience. From reimagined folk traditions to immersive family portraits and seven years of social change captured on sixty millimeter, thoughtful, big hearted filmmaking with a Q and A. Tickets available via the Sherbourne website . Sam, thank you Sherbourne Festival News and also before we're done here's Derek. Greetings. My name is Derek Anthony Williams. I run the n jightoin shif t Goth events. I'm running a two day festival here in Doncaster at the Unitarian church on the twentieth and twenty first of June . We are hoping to raise lots of money also by doing it for trans rights. As I feel very much recently trans people have become very much the focus of a lot of negative attention. We have a heck of a lot of music over two days here. fifty percent of all donations go to the mermaid's charity no matter what. Okay, so Derek, thank you very much indeed. So join the night shift. co. U uk I imagine that must be for more information . And yeah, and we would like to see your videos. We'd like to hear your audio. If there's something that you'd like to tell us about send it to correspondents at codemo. com that's it for this week. This has been a Sony Music Entertainment Production. And this week's team, Jen Eric, Josh and Scarlet, the producer was Dom and the reactor was Simon Paul, who was briefly back in the country. How nice of him to grace us with his Take two, we're heading from big screen eruptions in Bridesmaids via a hotly contested five question film club on Magoonies and even more topic movie discussion in the overflow car park. Plus, Questions, Schmestjens, will be tackling whether YouTu ber movies have finally shaken off their bad reputation and a question on BBFC ratings. Why twelve A and fifteen and could those classifications actually change in the future? Come and join us on Patreon because it's a lot of good fun . Mark, what is your film of the week? Savage House . Back next week with reviews of Solo Mio, the fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford and Disclosure Day with our special guest Esmily Blunt and Coleman Domingo from the new Spielberg movie. Thank you very much, indeed, for listening. I will bestow a year's ultra membership to our correspondent of the week , which why don't we give it to Elton in the classics Chancellor who told us about Greek fatalism because it was something I didn't know about. So very good. Elton, thank you very much indeed. We'll be back with you in a few days time, and take two has landed alongside to this one