John Maguire
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152 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 9 Aug
John Maguire’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But anyway, the story here is after the death of his wife, a lonely software engineer is testing the company's new product.
She's a sex robot, basically, played by Lily Sullivan.
He calls her Sarah.
They start a relationship.
He starts adjusting her programming.
The thing about the old sex robots, Brendan, as David discovers to his cost, it's easy enough to turn them on, if you pardon the expression.
It's another thing to turn them off.
And that's where the film, basically, that's the crux of the movie.
It's ultimately about the human condition.
That's what this story is here.
To answer the question in the title, it's absolutely, and no, I had never heard of Bill Fuller, and I know a bit about him now, but I don't know that much about him.
I mean, this is a documentary that tells the, purports to tell the whole story, but also acknowledges that it,
Nobody could tell all of the story.
A guy from Kerry went to England in a McAlpine fusilier, glommed on to the notion that the Irish immigrants needed entertainment and from that built an empire, a genuine empire of ballrooms, music promotion.
and became extremely successful.
But then he has this extraordinarily complicated and upsetting personal life that spans, you know, five or six decades of his working career.
It could be good.
After 20 years of Marvel and absolute domination and hegemony at the cinema, you'd think there's nothing more that can be done with superheroes.
But what about Nicolas Cage as a middle-aged gumshoe, a kind of a Sam Spade figure, working in 1930s New York at the height of the Great Depression?
who goes up against Brendan Gleeson's ruthless Irish bootlegger.
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