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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Time for the watch list.
Chapter 2: What are the film and TV highlights discussed this week?
And to give us the definitive list of what to watch for the week ahead, I'm joined by broadcaster Fionnuala Jones and podcaster Andy McCarl. Welcome, guys. Hi. So we start with movies, maybe. Andy, Masters of the Universe. More nostalgia. Masters of the Universe. People having goosebumps now. Do the kids even know who He-Man and Skeletor are?
Chapter 3: How does 'Masters of the Universe' resonate with today's audience?
No, absolutely not. I am 100% the target audience for this. And full disclosure, I have a framed Masters of the Universe poster with Dolph Lundgren in my house. Unfortunately, that seems to be reflected in the box office as well because it is doing absolutely terrible. There hasn't been a He-Man cartoon in about 30 years and it hasn't been kind of kept culturally relevant with things like Lego.
So like you said, the target demographic is 42 year old men like me who are going on their own and not in droves apparently. Okay. The sad thing is, it is actually very, very good. Is it? Yeah.
Obviously, I'm half in the bag already for it, but it is very watchable and I'm kind of disappointed it hasn't done well because that means we're not going to get more of them and it'll be another 30 years where I'm trying to drag my grandkids then to see He-Man.
So the people who know... they will like this no they like it Masters of the Universe that's in cinemas now Fanula a Netflix original kind of movie now Office Romance right so this is Jennifer Lopez and that guy Brett Goldstein from Ted Lasso and various other things falling in love against the odds is he way more attractive than I think he is
Oh, Brendan, you are speaking to the converted. I'm obsessed with him.
He could be in the frame for a love interest with Jennifer Lopez.
Yeah, I don't think... Positioning him as like, oh, he's so out of JLo's league. I'm like, absolutely not.
Anyone who's seen Ted Russell... I think he wrote it, though.
So this is the thing. He wrote it as well, right? And his whole idea was he's been obsessed with JLo forever as well. And he had actually... You know, IRL-like. IRL. And he had written this kind of with her in mind. He'd written this film. And I'm like, that's a compelling film. I don't know why you didn't make that film as opposed to this, which is kind of grand.
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Chapter 4: What is the premise of J. Lo's 'Office Romance'?
It's 25 years since the first film, which shocked me. It's surprisingly good. It didn't punch down as much as I expected. The trailer was absolutely terrible. It looked like it was going to be that kind of Ricky Gervais style of comedy of, oh, we can't say this anymore. Look how daring we're being.
It's actually surprisingly clever and it makes a lot of in jokes with the cast because the Wayans were actually fired by Harvey Weinstein after the second one. A couple of the cast members stays on and there's a good moment where there's kind of an inquest where the Waynes brothers with the cast that stayed on basically saying like, how did you betray us like this? It's shockingly good.
But like I said, if you liked one and two, you'll like it. If you didn't like one and two, you'll hate this.
Okay. Funny. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Fanula, that scary movie six that's in cinemas now. Fanula, there's a newish Pixar film up on Disney Plus that people probably didn't go to see in the cinema. Hopper's.
Yes, this is Hoppers. Exactly as you said, if you missed it in the cinema, it's on streaming now. Good family viewing. We're looking at Mabel, who's this animal loving college student. She ends up transferring her mind into a robotic beaver in order to communicate with animals and save their habitat from destruction.
Is it a Pixar classic like?
Classic? I'm not sure I'd go that far. Maybe a return to form is what people are kind of suggesting. Yeah, like easy watching, funny.
again people kind of positing as like avatar but for babies like it's a similar plot to avatar but for kids okay that's what we needed yeah okay that's hoppers on disney plus now for pixar fans um now andy tiptoe is the new show from russell t davies who made queers folk and it's the same and it continues on channel four for the next three nights i think but the other two will be up on the channel for streaming is it as good as his other stuff
It's absolutely brilliant. The first two episodes are incredible. Like you said, it's on every week, which I was disappointed as soon as the second episode finished. Give me the next one. It has David Morrissey. He plays an electrician with two sons whose neighbours with Alan Cummin, who was this flamboyant drag gay bar owner.
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Chapter 5: How does 'Office Romance' compare to other romantic comedies?
Inevitably, when you're watching it, your partner will turn around and say, oh, if you were to do a museum of you, what would you put into it? Make sure you mention something of theirs because otherwise the next two days will be everything you pick up in the house will be followed by, is that going in the museum ahead of me? It's really, really interesting.
The first episode is Brian Dobson, who has a signed copy of the Good Friday Agreement from the day it was signed. I will say I wouldn't be handing Dermot Whelan any family heirlooms because he starts flicking through this like it's yesterday's newspaper. So it was a bit of a jump scare. I was like, please, please be careful with that. Who's on tonight? We've Pat Short on tonight.
Then we've got Steve Garn of Codeline, Maria Dunphy and Emma, sorry, Emma Dornan is on tonight and then followed by Pat Short. Oh yeah, great.
Okay. Museum of Me and that continues RT1 tonight at 8.30. And Fionnuala, another RT1 tomorrow night at 8.30. Backstory looks interesting.
This is really gorgeous. Yeah, this follows four young Irish people with immigrant parents returning to their parents' ancestral homes. So this first episode this week features singer Siobhan McLean, who's supported people like Blanna Del Rey, known more colloquially as Shiv. She's an incredible artist. She's going back to Zimbabwe with her mum, Tambu.
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Chapter 6: What makes 'Scary Movie 6' stand out in the franchise?
They've been before, but it's been at least 10 years since she's been back. And she has really candid conversations about her struggle with identity currently and what this trip kind of means to her and to see the relationship with her mom.
It's complicated going back, is it?
Complicated, yeah. And I will say, like, this was a, this was a, probably a less complicated episode in the sense that, like, Shiv has a really good connection, good relationship with her mom and relationship to her roots or whatever. But still, like, these very candid conversations about...
you know, kind of racism she's experienced in current years in Ireland and how she's kind of always spelt split, I should say. And how do you kind of bring the two back together? And she also works on a song we see in the episode with the Zimbabwean artist, which is out now as well. But I would say watch the show first and then listen to the song.
So backstory, RT1 tomorrow, 8.30. Andy, Netflix have done very well out of, is it the Murdoch case? The Murdoch murder case. A lot of people watch that. So there's been a twist in the case and Netflix are straight on it. They've turned around a documentary, Alex Murdoch, Unconvicted.
Yeah. So this is the documentary follow up to the Murdoch murders, a southern scandal, which was about a very well-to-do family in the south. And the husband, the father, sorry, was convicted of murdering his wife and child. There was also a spinoff dramatization with Jason Clarke and Patricia Arquette, which was really, really good as well.
This one is kind of the documentary equivalent of this could have been an email. There was a clerk who was apparently leading the jury to go for conviction. There's now been set off a retrial, which you imagine another Netflix documentary will be about.
The ironic thing about this is halfway through this one-off follow-up documentary, there's the whole thing where the people in the town are not happy about all these true crime podcasters and all these follow-up and it's potentially become like a tourist attraction. And Netflix is saying, isn't this terrible?
And it's kind of the equivalent of standing outside a boarding building with matches in it.
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