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[00:00:00]Okay, boxoffice top 10 time. Before we get there Legends, which is on Netflix, which obviously doesn't turn up in the movie boxoffice top 10 because it's on telly. But we have been talking about it. What with it, you reviewing it. Yep.

[00:00:12]And you speaking to that Steve Coogan.

[00:00:13]That one. Someone who appears to be called paperless writer.

[00:00:17]Either that or they work for a company called paperless writer. Anyway, it's on YouTube. Thank you Mr. Paper Ms. Ms. Right, who knows. Already watched the first episode. Excuse me.

[00:00:29]Already watched the first episode and this one looks like a keeper. Despite the lightness and genuinely funny lines, this is serious stuff and the actors are all fantastic. Luckily in the US Netflix drops all seasons episodes at once, so I can watch this as quickly as I want and as gripping as it is, I don't see this 6-hour season taking me more than a weekend to get through. It's that riveting.

[00:00:49]>> Yeah.

[00:00:50]How many episodes have dropped here?

[00:00:55]Eight? All of them. All of them.

[00:00:58]>> So we're just the same as America then in that case. So thank you paperless writer. But it is one of those shows you think okay, better watch the next one.

[00:01:05]>> Yeah. Loved it. Loved it. But I I watched four because that's what they sent us as a preview thinking that that was everything and I got to the end of four and as you said it is you can't leave Bulldog Baxter there at. So into the 10.

[00:01:17]Now the Magic Faraway Tree is at 10.

[00:01:19]>> Lovely. Seven weeks in the top 10. Very good. Great family film. Number nine, Iron Maiden Burning Ambition.

[00:01:26]>> So there were two music docs out last week, this and the Billie Eilish film. I did the Billie Eilish film so I haven't seen Ambition. Do we have any emails?

[00:01:33]No, but you but I'm in it. You're in it?

[00:01:36]>> I'm in the Iron Maiden documentary.

[00:01:37]>> What do you do? Introduce them on Top of the Pops. Oh okay, fine.

[00:01:41]How do you know that if you haven't seen it? Because I've been told. By? By Nicky Chapman who works at Magic, which is a companion radio station to Greatest Hits. And I see her every evening because she's about to go in just as I'm leaving and her other half is the manager of Iron Maiden. Oh, okay, fine. So, she said we went to the we went to the to the opening, went to the premiere.

[00:02:05]>> Premiere, which was in Leicester Square, cuz it was a huge big premiere.

[00:02:07]>> up, and I go, "Oh, yeah, you go."

[00:02:09]So, what do you say? And now, Pop Pickers, Iron Maiden.

[00:02:12]>> to be honest, it'll probably be something like that.

[00:02:14]>> Something like that, okay. I feel as though I should have got paid, though.

[00:02:17]You feel like you should have got told.

[00:02:18]>> If I'm in the Iron Maiden I'm in a top top 10 movie. Yeah. I was watching that film Lynch/Oz. I'm in that. I didn't know that I was in that until >> Well, apparently not.

[00:02:28]>> They can't just use you like that. No.

[00:02:30]And then >> away all your self-control.

[00:02:32]>> an episode There's a an edition of Sight & Sound recently that had interviews with with actors.

[00:02:37]I did two of them. They were They were They were transcriptions of the interviews I did on stage with Daniel Day-Lewis and Jessie Buckley.

[00:02:48]No idea. Well, they need to pay you.

[00:02:50]Well, apparently not. Get your agent to get in touch. Uh okay, Iron Maiden at number nine. Hokum is at number eight.

[00:02:56]>> Which I enjoyed. I mean, I thought it worked well, and I think that's that's horror that is much more in your wheelhouse.

[00:03:01]>> Yes. Okay. A wheel park? Wheelhouse, ball park.

[00:03:05]>> [laughter] >> Just go down the park.

[00:03:09]I quite like that, though. We are the >> Okay, let's use wheel park now from now on.

[00:03:14]It kind of works, and everyone knows exactly what you're saying. Project Hail Mary seven here. Hokum is also number eight in America. And Project Hail Mary is seven here and seven there.

[00:03:22]>> Yeah, amaze amaze amaze. We both like it. I like it more than you do. Uh and both and at number six here and there the Super Barrio Galaxy movie.

[00:03:31]Number five here, but number one in America is Mortal Kombat 2.

[00:03:35]>> Which I enjoyed, and I I I I thought it was a step up from the previous Mortal Kombat, which was a step up from the previous Mortal Kombat, but I thought this was really enjoyable, and I I like Karl Urban in it very much.

[00:03:47]>> Sam Ovah on our YouTube channel, is the movie great? I don't know, not really.

[00:03:51]Is the movie fun? Yes, it definitely is.

[00:03:53]My biggest gripe is that it's very apparent who can do martial arts and who cannot. The Liu Kang Kung Lao fight was absolute martial arts film bliss. I wanted more of that. Kano steals the show again. I wish Urban as Johnny Cage was as awesome as Linden Ashby was in 1995's Mortal Kombat. I still thought he was fun. The biggest issue I had with Cage was he's still supposed to be an awesome fighter and I feel like in a Mortal Kombat 2, Johnny Cage is 99% comedy and 1% fighting. I'm 41, but I remember when even with the gore at the time, Mortal Kombat was geared towards kids and young people. Mortal Kombat gore and games have gotten so graphic now, I don't even think kids experience Mortal Kombat or care. Okay.

[00:04:37]Well, I I haven't played Mortal Kombat.

[00:04:39]I've only seen the films, but I did enjoy this film.

[00:04:42]Um you still don't play computer games?

[00:04:44]No, I mean, I think I'm a bit late to start now and I and just to be absolutely clear, I have nothing against them. I think they're great works of art. I've talked to Charlie Brooker about it. I've watched, you know, my my kids grew up playing them and love them.

[00:04:55]I it's just not a skill that I have.

[00:04:58]Uh and number four, number five over there, Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft the Tour brackets concert.

[00:05:03]>> Which is directed by Billie Eilish and James Cameron who says at the beginning it's going to say Billie Eilish and then James Cameron in tiny letters and then at the end it says directed by James Cameron and Billie Eilish, but it's I mean, it's it's a great concert film and I'm a big fan of the of everything she does. I mean, I just >> Are you a fan of the 3D, Mark? I'm not, but it's it's in 3D and honestly, I kind of forgot about it. They seem to have slightly tweaked the how difficult it is to sit the glasses on your glasses cuz I've got quite heavy glasses frames, but I put them on and honestly, I forgot about it.

[00:05:36]>> Okay.

[00:05:37]David Hopkins says, "Dear Bad Guy and Bird of a Feather, having been lucky enough to attend the Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour, Oh, wow. what a treat it was to enjoy it again in this amazing mashup of concert film and documentary. And what a joyful alliance between James Cameron, three Oscars, and Billie Eilish, just the two. One of the grand old men of Hollywood still looking to push back technical boundaries, 3D that actually adds to the experience, and a young performer still only testing what seems like her limitless potential.

[00:06:05]Other concert films tend towards lionizing the performer, but this one emphasizes the communion between Billie and her fans. It was remarkable how much this was replicated in the communal place of a cinema theater.

[00:06:18]Uh David, thank you.

[00:06:19]>> Good. Uh number three here, number four over there is The Sheep Detective.

[00:06:23]>> Which I'm actually slightly surprised it hasn't gone into number one cuz I thought it was going to. We were talking about it um last week when it came out.

[00:06:30]This is going to be big. I mean, it's obviously done well, but I it's not It hasn't Maybe if it wasn't up against uh Michael and Devil Wears Prada.

[00:06:40]>> Yeah, then it would be number one. But I mean, I I thought it was great. I went in not knowing anything about it thinking how on earth is this going to work, and then amazingly it works. It's really charming.

[00:06:48]>> Chris says, "Dear you and you, on seeing the trailer for The Sheep Detective, I expected a silly whodunit which was solved by sheep. By the end, I didn't care who done it or why because that wasn't the story. It's a story about grief and remembrance. At the heart of it are sheep who want to forget so the pain goes away, but then the importance of remembering the deceased and honoring them is mentioned. It was a scene which had me silently sobbing having suddenly lost two friends recently. The Sheep Detective is a film that's probably not for young kids, but ideal for older ones and adults helping those affected navigate through grief and for those experiencing it for the first time understand it. It's got an important message at its heart, but also has great laughs right from the opening logo, the chicken, and the description of God which will be causing chuckles in clergy corner. Many thanks to the friends I've made through listening to your show who've given me the support uh given me their support, and to my dear friends, you'll never be forgotten.

[00:07:44]Thank you, Chris.

[00:07:45]Anthony No, you're say you're absolutely right, incidentally, that you're absolutely right about that.

[00:07:49]Uh, Anthony in Huntingdonshire.

[00:07:52]Who knew? I like the comparison that it is akin to Babe versus Knives Out, but more than that, it's a gentle introduction for a younger audience into the genre of the whodunit. There is only minimal threat, although I concur with Mark that one scene is very sinister for a PG, and practically no injury detail.

[00:08:09]Regardless of the intended audience, I'd like to commend the film on how well-crafted it how well-crafted it is to fit the genre. There were enough clues so that the audience could deduce the perpetrator just before the reveal, but it wasn't so blindingly obvious as not to be a puzzle, with red herrings a plenty creating the necessary diversions along the way. And Johnny in Austin.

[00:08:31]Greetings from deep too deep in the heart of Texas. I write to you about Sheep. What a strange, strange movie to choose as the first to write to you about after a decade of listening. This evening, my wife and 16-year-old daughter dragged me to a screening of The Sheep Detectives. I knew little about it going in and didn't care to know more. I was expecting an animated feature at the level of oh, let's say Trolls, and I was busy planning how to entertain myself with pacing the popcorn consumption.

[00:09:00]First observation walking in, only a sprinkling of kids, as in two or three.

[00:09:05]It was a theater packed with middle-aged adults.

[00:09:08]Second observation, I was fighting tears in the final 5 minutes. And then there's an explanation which I I'll skip over.

[00:09:15]Final observation, adults all around me were quietly clapping as the film ended.

[00:09:20]It was as if we all let out a collective, much-needed sigh of appreciation at an experience of human, or at least sheep-ish, decency. Yes, it's a strange smoothie of a movie, but there's something deeply normal and simple in its spirit. The Texans around me needed it, as did I, in a time and land giving into its grotesque streak.

[00:09:41]It was a small but true pleasure to see so many celebrate an outcast winter lamb being accepted into the herd. It felt relieving and right to celebrate care. The film had multiple such moments of goodness in its bumpy strange ride. The applause didn't last too long and everyone dispersed in oversized trucks to continue to confront, endure, or embrace whatever it is we are becoming over here. But for one strange moment, we saw and applauded decency. It was a really weird movie.

[00:10:11]Sheepishly, Johnny and Austin. That's a fantastic uh email. What a wonderful experience, and I think those emails collectively demonstrate why it was that I thought the film would go in at number one. Yeah. You would say it if you lived in the middle of Austin Have you ever been to Austin?

[00:10:26]>> No. It's a You know, Texas is weird.

[00:10:28]Austin is absolutely fabulous. We should go and do the show in Austin.

[00:10:34]And Johnny >> can be the only person in the audience, but it's, you know, it's why South by Southwest is It's just absolutely fantastic. Can I say there was a moment when you said it's absolutely I thought, "Where's Where's Mayo going?

[00:10:45]>> This is an alley. Are we crossing the Rubicon?" That would be a strange thing.

[00:10:48]Anyway, uh number three over there, number two here is Michael. Lots on this, but nothing worth reading out. And number one, although there is some in, as you might imagine, uh take and take ultra take ultra.

[00:11:00]>> Oh, and take ultra. Okay, fine. Okay, great. Okay, good. And number one here and number two in America is The Devil Wears Prada 2.

[00:11:08]>> Mhm. Which is, you know, it's fine, but it's it it's a lot of plot and not much else. Coco says, "The main problem with DWP 2 is there So, I should I should say the full title as it makes sense. Dear Dear Primark or Pre and Mark?"

[00:11:23]Primark. Oh, it's a joke about Primark.

[00:11:25]>> There it is.

[00:11:27]I say Pre-mark.

[00:11:28]Anyway, the main You don't. You don't say.

[00:11:31]It's the good [laughter] lady Sarah Millican says, "Oi, I'm off to the Pre-mark."

[00:11:35]The main problem with Devil Wears Prada 2 is there is no devil. Meryl Streep's Miranda is now the slightly edgy aunt you might want to hang out with. Mark was right, I can remember parts of the original, not so much this time.

[00:11:48]Shoehorning in shots of what I am sure are famous designers looked a bit desperate. Loved the show.

[00:11:54]Thank you, Coco.

[00:11:54]>> Yes.