Director Chris Columbus on 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and If Home Alone Is A Christmas Movie?? + Movie Review: Finch (Apple TV+) Top 5 Tom Hanks Movies

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast, your go to source for all things movies, and I am your host Movie Mike really excited about this week's episode. I am talking to director Chris Columbus, will get all into the twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone, which he directed. I also want to talk about another really big movie that he directed and the controversy around that. I'll get into a movie review of the new Tom Hanks movie on Apple TV Plus, and then I will rate my top five Tom Hanks movies of all time and my top three worst two very different movies today will be featured in movie Mike's trailer parks. So all that coming up for you on this week's episode. Appreciate you being subscribed and listening every single week, especially to those of you listening on a Monday, which is released a Without any further ado, let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast, A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking as glass from the Nationville Podcast Network. Movie Movie about to get into my conversation with director Chris Columbus, and I've interviewed a lot of people on his podcast so far, and I think when his face popped up to do this interview, I got a little bit nervous, mainly because I think he's such a great director and one that is so underrated when it comes to some of the movies he's directed. Not only did he do the first Harry Potter, which we'll talk about, he also did Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets, the Classic Home Alone, Mrs Doubtfire, The Help step Mom, all these movies, and I just feel like his work doesn't get the recognition to deserve. So when his face popped up on his zoom, calls like, holy crap, I'm talking to the real Chris Columbus, somebody whose movies have not only shaped my early childhood, but my tween and teen years and just movies that I go back and I think we all love his movies. Maybe didn't even realize that he directed all of these. I'm also a huge Harry Potter fan, and the first movie in particular, which we're gonna talk about, celebrating its twentieth anniversary. I For me, I just think it's the best Harry Potter movie. And I'm a big fan of the first movie out of every big franchise, just because I think when you are able to set the stage like this, like movies like Star Wars have done all these big franchise, it's always that first one that kind of has to hook you in. And I think he had a really tough job going into this one, and he completely nailed it from the very start of it. He is the one who cast the original actors Daniel Radcliffe, Ema Watson, Rupert Green, like that's all because of Chris Columbus and the emotion, the storytelling, the cinematography, even the special effects, which we'll get into talking about here. Everything was perfect in that first movie that even though it came out twenty years ago, it doesn't feel like it feels like a modern movie. I think as a director, his creative vision was just to make a movie that seemed timeless, and I think they perfectly nailed that. And I really hope down the line, somewhere he gets his hands on another Harry Potter project. So I'm really excited to bring you guys this interview this week. I hope you enjoy it. If you're a Harry Potter fan, I think you will. But let's get into our conversation with Chris Columbus, the director of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone. Are you doing, Hey, it's an honor to talk to you today. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. So I imagine when you go into directing the first Harry Potter there's a lot of nerves. Are just like getting it right from the book adaptation. How many times did you have to read the book before you did this movie. Well, my daughter had to persuade me to read the book. Okay, you know I She started with Sorcerer's Stone. She said, we read this would make a great movie. I said no. She was about nine at the time. So I lived through SORCER's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban. Finally, after Askabam, I said, okay, all right, I'll I read them. So I read them in two days and I knew immediately I have to make this into a film. So I called my agent and I said, I'd love to direct the first Harry Potter films. She said, you and about thirty other people she said, get in line. So I was fortunate enough to get the job. But it was you know, I knew it was, as they called it, a bake off at the time. So while you're filming this movie, do you sleep at all? Like I imagine just the scale of the production, what's going through your mind or trying to get everything right? Like are you able to process that and still do a movie? Oh? God, yeah, I remember I shot it in England and there are pubs everywhere, so you hit the pub and have a couple of pints and you sleep very well. So it's the twenties anniversary, and for me, it's a movie that I, for some reason associate with Christmas. Like every single Christmas I end up watching the First Harry Potter. Like do you feel comfortable people calling the First Harry Potter a Christmas movie? I don't know if it's completely a Christmas movie, like Home Alone is a Christmas movie, but die Hard debatable. Everybody's arguing about that one. But I think that Potter, it's just a sense of warmth and there's a fuzzy qual even though there's moments of darkness in the film. I think that's why I've shown a Christmas all the time. I can't escape the movie at Christmas. I mean, the first two Potter films are always playing from Thanksgiving to January one, which is, you know, a good feeling. If there was anything you could change from the way that the first one was made, what would you change about it? I think I'd go back and work on the visual effects of the quidditch match. You know, are you talking twenty years ago and visual effects weren't as sophisticated as they are today. They were good, but they weren't great. So I would love to spend about four more months working on that first quidditch match. If they came to you today and said, hey, could you they wanted to reboot Harry Potter. Is that something you would even try to tackle? Oh? God, no, it's been done. I mean I try to tackle. I think there's a fascinating uh film to be made of Cursed Child with our original cast Harry Potter and the Curse of Child. They're almost ready to play those roles agewise. Um, that would be great to revisit it. In the same way J J kind of went back and revisited Star Wars and did the smartest, most brilliant thing ever brought back the original cast. So there's just a feeling of nostalgia that I think is is kind of a wonderful thing. Has there been any talks of that or is that just something that you can see happening. I just I think you're probably the second person I said, but you know you asked me. So going back, you reference your movie Home Alone. Now to the people who do argue that that's not a Christmas movie, what do you say to those people? It's definitely a Christmas movie. I mean that's even done it without a dat like it takes place over Chris Christmas Eve. It's a it's a Christmas movie. I think my favorite thing about that, I think you were so particular about the colors in that movie of making like the green and the red wall paper. To me, the whole movie just has that feeling. So it's hard for me when people are like, no, that's not a Christmas movie. No, I mean, Home Alone was designed to be a Christmas film, but a warm I always hate when I see these Christmas films that are that were the either the decorations or the set design is just cheesy and and not warm. But think about Christmas. That makes it work on film is the warm So that's what we went to. You mentioned a wallpaper, which was a big debate for like a month before we actually built a set, because I wanted to get the color palette was you know, burgundy, deep greens, gold, just to get that warmth, that warm field and also carried out over some of that Potter as well. You know we used that warmth in the Christmas needs in Harry Potter. Well, I appreciate the time. It's a great talking to you. Thanks. What is that guitar, the blue one? I think when we shot Christmas Chronicles, Little Stephen and the musical number played that guitar. That's a jazz master. Okay, excellent, that looks great, But thank you. Have a good day. You didn't get into a spoiler free movie review. Now I'm talking about Finch, which is a brand new movie starring Tom Hanks on Apple TV plus A movie I was excited to see. Really got my attention when the trailer came out. I love a p It's apocalyptic movie. I love a Tom Hanks movie. I love a movie with the minimal cast. So this movie had all the workings into me. Really wanting to enjoy it. Before we get into what I thought about it, here's just a little bit of the trailer happening like a hundred degrees heat movie, radiation and people riding in the shadows. Do you think will make it? Mom? Without my team? What we do? We do? I believe in you fish, So I think you kind of get the vibe from that trailer. It's a really big adventure movie. It's a sci fi action road trip movie with a very minimal cast, which is all the workings of what I was looking for in a movie. So what the movie is about. It's Tom Hanks living in this post apocalyptic world. It's him and his dog living in this bunker, and he is trying to build this robot, which he kind of learned. The beginning of the movie is Tom Hanks is having some health problems. There's a lot of bad things in the air. You can't really go out into the world without having like a radiation suit, and he is experiencing these things and knows that he doesn't have much time left, and in that he's trying to build a robot that's able to take care of his dog after he passes away. So you find him at the beginning of this movie, living in this bunker trying to escape eventually what this storm has just they don't really say a whole lot about it, but it's essentially wiped out the entire United States. And he has this map where he's kind of marked out where he can move, where he all the situations are bad, and he's trying to build this robot. And as soon as he is able to get the robot up to being able to speak and being able to walk and being able to be intelligent, he's going to leave this bunker and try to go to the West coast where he can actually go out into the sun and breathe again. So you find him at the start of this movie building this robot, and then as soon as these they would have build it doesn't really have time to finish it. This big storm is coming. It's going to take them out and kill them if they don't leave. So that begins the whole journey of the movie. Tom Hanks, this new robot who was named Jeff, and the dog who is named Goodyear. They get into his mobile rig and just start driving out towards San Francisco. Now this isn't the most captivating post apocalyptic movie I've seen. If I had to compare it to something else, it's in between, like I Am Legend in the sense that something wiped out the entire world and you kind of learned a little bit more as you go along. And then I would also compare it to cast Away in the same way that Tom Hanks was the only human basically in the entire movie, and he interacts with in that movie a volleyball. Here it's a robot and his dog. What I really liked about it is it wasn't trying to be anything bigger than it was. It was really just trying to be this nice, warm, charismatic road trips, sci fi kind of action movie. And I really kind of like this acting pocket that Tom Hanks is in right now. He's in his you know, he's sixty five years old. He can kind of play like an older guy. But also it's believable to you know, him have these kind of survival skills. He's not really doing any kind of big action anything that would be uncharacteristic of a person like him right now. So I think this movie is perfect for him, and I think that's what really shines in this movie, and when you think about movie stars, it's people who are really charming and are able to keep your attention when they're on the screen. And only an actor could like Tom Hanks to his caliber, could do a role like this because it's only him on screen for the majority of the entire movie and interacting with a robot who is special effects and a dog who is a real dog, but also some of the things are special effects, so that's a lot of him being able to convey a story so well and express his emotions so well that it comes across when he's basically not interacting with another human. Also props to the director on this, I'm keeping everybody in line with what's scene needs to represent, what what needs to happen where, because I think they did it really great in this movie. I also think it's a really good step for Apple TV. Plus that doesn't have a whole lot of content out of there. You know, I got it because I love watching any and every movie that comes out, and the way they've kind of distinguished themselves is not by quantity. They don't have a whole lot, but they have quality in the sense that they get big actors like they have this deal with Tom Hanks. His other movie Greyhound was on there, and then they have this one just like bam, here's another Tom Hanks movie. But people like justin Timberlake, Tom Holland, Bill Murray, like all these big actors are doing movies over there, and they don't really feel like streaming movies quote unquote, like you know, like a Netflix movie, like an Amazon movie. They have a really big cinematic field that all of them could easily transfer into movie theaters, and I think that's kind where they're setting their ground. They haven't really got there yet. They haven't really got there yet because I don't think they have any movies that would be like, Okay, you have to get their subscription to watch this movie. But I think if you already have it for maybe something else like ted Lasso or The Morning Show, it's these nice little nuggets of movies over here on the edge that you can watch and really enjoy, even movies like Coda that came out earlier I talked about. I just think they have like these hidden gems. That's that's what Apple TV plus right now is. It's kind of like the hidden gym of movies streaming services. So I will get into my top five Tom Hanks movies here in a second. But I would say this movie is one of Tom Hanks's best movies in the last five years. And I think this is him right now kind of being more selective in the movies he takes. He's really taking rules right now where he is the guy like I know, he's been able to do that forever, but with his last two movies that I watched, it's like all Tom Hanks all the time. I would kind of like to see him in like a bigger, more ensemble cast with some other good A list actors because he has those chops and I would really like to see them put it, you know, toe to toe with other actors and be able to experience that Tom Hanks again. But he has the power right now where he doesn't have to do any kind of movie like that. He can just do a movie like this. So if I had to rate Finch, which by the way, that's the name of his character in this movie, I would give us three point five out of five Robot Friends. I think it's a movie you can sit down and watch, maybe with a whole family. It has a good mix of action, a good mix of like this warm heartedness, a little bit of suspense in there, and just the world they're able to create, I thought was a pretty cool representation of what maybe a post apocalyptic world would look like. I think the only thing that may throw people off a little bit is like the robot voice his character. Maybe the song would get a little bit annoying because he's kind of a mix of Wally slash E T slash, like C three P O R two D two in a way. And if you're looking for a movie with a lot of human interaction, you're not really good to find it here. It's mainly just Tom Hanks. So that's what I think about Finch. We're on the subject of Tom Hanks, and I put together my top five best Tom Hanks movies of all the time and also my top three worst of all time. I couldn't really find a whole lot that I just considered to be the worst. It's very rare for him to have a flop, but I have three that I've seen that I just did not like whatsoever. So starting first with the top five, I would go back to eighties Tom Hank and put Big at number five. I just think the amount of effort he put in two rolls so early in his career is really what set him apart from every other actor. It made him my a list star. And from him taking this role on and you know, really like working with another kid to see and interact with him, for him to really be able to capture what it meant to be a kid trapped in an adult body. He went to such great links to find those small little details that made this movie that much better. It made this movie a classic and the classic piano dance scene. I just think this is one of Tom Hanks's best from that era. So I put Big at number five, at number four, That's where I'm going With Forrest Gump. I feel like a lot of people would put this at their number one. I know what's out a doubt. This is his signature role. I think if you asked anybody to name one Tom Hanks movie, they would probably say Forrest Gump. And I think for me, why it doesn't rank higher is one, It's an investment to watch Forrest Gump. You can't really just sit down on a random night and watch the entire thing from start to finish. It's more of a movie that I can watch at any single point and just kind of get into and kind of come back to it if I want to later. But as a whole, I felt like I experienced it once from start to finish and realize how great of a movie this is, how great of a job Tom Hanks did in that to get that character down, how much effort went into making this movie. But I never really had that same feeling again rewatching it again and again. I think it's just that it's been exposed to us so much, whether it be on TV or just other people talking about it, that it's felt a little bit bigger and maybe a little bit better than it actually is. Not denying in any way how good of a movie it is. I just think if you rank it up against some of other Tom Hanks movies and his performances, I just think he's really kind of broken through in different movies than he did just creating the iconic character Forrest Gump. So if I'm looking at Tom Hanks the actor and his performances in the movies as a whole, I would still put this one at number four. At number three, I'm going with catch me if you can now. I was saying earlier, how I love it when Tom Hanks is paired with another A list actor, And I think that's why this one to me ranks higher than Forrest Gump, because it's two of the best actors of all time, Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, and all their interactions in this movie are just perfect. They're the scenes are great. Based on a true story. Tom Hanks plays a character that which is actually based on a few different FBI agents to kind of put their entire story into one character. And I think this is just an underrated Tom Hanks movie. It's an underrated Leonardo DiCaprio movie, and being a movie from two thousand and two, it greatly holds up now in after it's almost twenty years old, a movie that I was just blown away after the first time I watched it. I've rewatched again and still think it's one of the best. So at number three, I'm going with Catch Me if you Can, and number two I'm like, best Tom Hanks movies of all time, I'm going with Toy Story. Now, you maybe don't consider this one a full on Tom Hanks movie, but when you break down the main characters of Toy Story, it wouldn't have worked without Tom Hanks's Woody, it wouldn't. I think if Tim Allen wasn't Buzz Lightyear, they had somebody else, they would be fine. But the voice of Tom Hanks's Woody is what makes the movie. It's what's carried the entire franchise. And I think sometimes voice acting work gets a little bit underrated, a little bit undermined in the amount of work that actually takes into getting that right, that takes into getting that emotion right. I think some people just see it as, Oh, they just sit in a recording studio and record lines. It's an easy paycheck. But to be able to just create an iconic character with your voice like Tom Hanks did in this movie is really unheard of. I feel like in movies, there's very few iconic voice acts who have done several movies like this at an a list level that Tom Hanks is. You know, a lot of the times now they just pull big celebrities to voice these random animated movies. They're kind of just thrown together to have all these big actors like all these voices in this go watch it. But when it comes to really getting it right and really understanding the character and really doing a good job out of like, Okay, we're gonna do this character and do it all this amount of times. I think Tom Hanks has done it the best, and without him there would not be a Toy Story franchise. So at number two going with Toy Story. And at number one, my favorite Tom Hanks movie of all time is A League of Their Own And he was actually talking about this recently and said this was one of his favorites as well. I would probably say number one would be League of their Own because all I did all summer was played baseball. That was a great summer and my entire family still speaks about it. The reason I love this movie is one I love movies set back in the day. This one takes place in the forties, based on a true story when World War Two was threatening to shut down Major League Baseball and they rolled out the first ever All American girls professional baseball league. So I love the amount of history in this movie. I love a good baseball movie. I love the giant cast in this movie, with everybody from Madonna to Rosie O'Donnell to Gina Davis, John Lovett's Bill Pullman, so many great actors in this but again, I think the actor who makes this is Tom Hanks playing Jimmy Dougan. I just love the story of the older, washed up, foul mouth guy coming back to coach this team, not really wanted to do it. He's falling asleep all the beginning of the movie. He's drunk, he's angry, and I just think Tom Hanks is so good at that role. He has so many great lines in this movie. One of the most iconic lines. Of course, there's no crying in Baseball. Just the pitch of his voice in that movie is like classic Tom Hanks, going back to his acting abilities, but also just what he's able to, you know, convey in his voice. You know it's a great actor when you can do an impression of him. I just think Tom Hanks it was a star in the eighties, but it was really the nineties for me anyway that I felt like he really came to set the stage of what it means to be an a list act or what it means to be one of the best. And if he had only done A League of their Own and not done any other movie, I think he still would have been at that level. And out of all the movies on this list. Out of every Tom Hanks movie, this is the one I watched the most because I love it so much. So at number one, I'm going with a league of their own and then I'll just quickly run through what I think are the top three worst Tom Hanks movies of all time, and number three was Sully. I was really excited about that one because I wanted to see the story of the miracle on the Hudson, you know, and Tom Hanks playing Captain Sully. I thought it was gonna be great, and really the movie is pretty boring. It's entertaining for maybe fifteen minutes. It shows what you kind of went there to see the crash, how it happened, how it went down, very dramatic, but then the entire movie is just kind of the legal stuff that came afterwards. And they did something in a movie that I had never really seen done before, is they kind of re show the same scene again and a little bit again and again of the crash because that's mainly the entire story. There wasn't enough of that event to make an entire movie out of, and it felt very forced. Although Tom Hanks was good as Captain Sully. I left that movie feeling like, well, I didn't need to watch that. At number two, I'm going with Cloud Atlas, one of his biggest flops of all time, a movie that seemed good on paper, a big fantasy sci fi movie that just didn't deliver. I think a movie that I came very close to just not walking out of but not feeling bad if I fell asleep while watching that movie in the theaters. I think there are very few people who actually liked this movie. So at number two I would go with Cloud Atlas. And then at number one is a movie I watched last year talking about Apple TV plus movies is Greyhound won this movie. The cinematographer was distracting. I don't know what kind of effect they were going for of having like the main characters like in focus, but everything else like blurry. It was hard to watch, like playing out. It was just hard to focus in on anything. It was so dark, not a whole lot of details, and it was just a bunch of people out on a boat with very few action. Once the movie was over, I was surprised it was over because nothing really happened. So a theme into a bad Tom Hanks movies is movies that not a whole lot happens, So there you go a lot of Tom Hanks content in that segment. I am looking forward to the new Elvis movie He's gonna be in. Biopics are tough though. It can go either way. It can be really great or it can be just kind of a big flop. But if it had to be one that I'm excited for, it would be that one. Now it's time for the part of the podcast where I let you know about new movies coming to theaters and streaming very soon. In a segment we call it's time to head down to movie mis Paul all right, and the trailer Park Today is a movie I found interesting for a couple of reasons. One is because I didn't really realize there's much of a demand for a movie like this right now, but I can see it, and after watching this trailer, I was like, Okay, I'm kind of buying into it a little bit. It's a movie called Fortress. It stars Jesse Metcalf, Bruce Willis, and Chad Michael Murray. It kind of looks like a straight up nineties action movie, very cheesy, very over the top action. I feel like you go into this movie knowing exactly what you're gonna get before I kind of break down this trailer a little bit more. Here's just a little bit of the movie Fortress. What is this place? Dad? It's complicated. Go to the fortress, I'm relieving. What's the fortress? It's our emergency? Should balls already, so I should go? Oh my, dad, he probably doesn't matter all you said today. Have a serious grievance with you and your government. It's your government too. I will be knocking on the door outdoor. They're sitting ducks out there. Stay here, my kind of dad, I guess I don't know this movie. It sounds over the top a little bit, but it looks like a pretty decent action movie. It's about this top secret resort for retired US intelligence officers, one of them, who is Bruce Willis, and his son in the movie is played by Jesse Metcalf. It looks like the bad guy is gonna be Chad Michael Murray, who he's trying to take down Bruce Willis. It's kind of that classic formula of not realizing what line of work your father is into and then just getting thrown right into it, into this crazy, over the top action movie. So a couple of things that stand out from the trailer on this movie is one, Bruce Willis is still doing action movies again. He's at that same age pretty much that Tom Hanks is at sixties six, And unlike Tom Hanks, who has kind of gotten away from not that he ever really did action movies, but I feel like he's playing a little bit more age appropriate roles now, Bruce Willis has like, I'm just still going to be an action story. That's what my bread and butter has been throughout my career. So at sixty years old, I'm still going to do that. And I feel like he maybe has into his seventies where that will still work. But then again, I don't know. He could be somebody like Clint Eastwood, who in his nineties still doing action movies. I just think I find it interesting for somebody like Bruce Willis, who really doesn't need to do any movies anymore, that would just do a movie like this. And I get that not every single movie has to be, you know, the most in depth thing, but I just think when you're doing an action movie, you still want it to be a quality of a good action movie. And I'm just kind of judging the acting on this and the overall kind of production. You hear in that trailer the guns sound effects that they use, and they don't even sound realistic. They straight up sound like they pulled some stock audio of gunshots. So I don't really feel like it's convincing just by watching that trailer, like create some realistic at least sound effects to that. And also the other casting choices that they have in this movie stood out to meet one Jessie Metcalf, who I haven't really seen in a movie in a very long time. And then Chad Michael Murray from One Tree Hill, who I guess he's been in some like Hallmark Christmas movies or Lifetime one of those kinds of franchises. A guy who is known more for his TV career than really anything he really did in movies. Once you're counting like a Cinderella Story, and it's some would say a comeback role from him, at least in the you know, mainstream, But again, going to his acting in this trailer, you hear him at the very end of that clip seems very over the top, seems very nineties action movie to me. But that movie comes out on December sevent so also just the interesting release date that it's sliding out on. I feel like this is a movie my dad would like. He likes to just throw in a movie. You don't have to pay attention to the story. You just know there's people with guns. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, and you want to see them taken out. So if that's what they're going for on this movie, I can jump in on that. Next up in the trailer park is a movie called The End of Us, which I felt had a pretty interesting concept, a pretty interesting premise. It's about this couple who is together. They go through a bad breakup, but it's right before lockdown, so right before everybody started Quarantine. This movie takes place. They break up and then have to live with each other because they have nowhere else to go. In particular to the boyfriend, she kicks him out but feels bad about it, so they just break up and then continue living as roommates. So before I get into more breaking down this trailer, he's just a little bit of the End of Us and my boyfriend and I broke up right before Quarantine started. I can't kick him out. Where is he going? To go. He has like twelve dollars, So I don't have a job. It's like I'm working for you, living in this apartment. I'm reading for like weird foreign animated shows. You know what Eddie Murphy did Shrek? He got paid millions of dollars? Is that me? But you not Eddie Murphy? So this is an indie movie. They showed it at south By Southwest Film Festival earlier this year. It has that kind of indie movie vibe which I like. And not only that, I haven't really seen COVID or Lockdown or Quarantine really portrayed a whole lot in movies right now. Even movies that were filmed during the pandemic were filmed like at the height of Quarantine and kind of as restrictions were eased. I do see influence on different stories of like minimal cast, one locations mental I do see influences like, you know, minimal cast movies taking place in one or very few locations, movies like on Netflix Malcolm and Marie or The Guilty with Jake Jillen Hall. But I haven't really seen a whole lot of people representing stories that took place during that time, and this movie is that a couple breaks up, everybody's told to stay at home, they stay together. It's basically a romantic comedy pandemic movie. It's also a movie from BuzzFeed Studios, which and after watching that trailer, I did kind of get the feeling that somebody who had just taken a quiz may be made this movie, you know, like one of those quizzes though, what's your personality type based on what you order from Starbucks? And I'm into that. I think my guilty pleasure is taking buzz Speed quizzes. So I felt like, I think this movie has some legs to be good stylistically. It's what I'm into with the indie field. If it leans a little bit more on the comedy than the romantic side, I think I'll be into it a little bit more too. But this movie comes out in theaters on December one, and then it starts streaming on December seven, if you want to check that one out. And that will wrap it up for trailers this week this weeks edition of Movie Bar. A few things that I did want to talk about is there was the whole Big Disney Plus Day on Friday, and they announced a bunch of TV shows, but they also announced a bunch of movies. There weren't any trailers they released, mainly just like the graphics, but I didn't want to talk about a few of these that I'm excited about. First up, Focus Pocus, to which they did announce a while back, but now they're saying fall. They did really suffer first picture of what the cast looks like, bringing back the original sisters. I thought that looked pretty cool and it almost looked like they were still back in the nineties doing this movie. Again. They didn't give an official release date, but we know we can expect that has to be before Halloween. If it's fallo, I think that would be a big one for Disney Plus. I think they're doing some pretty big things over there as far as all the original content that they're doing with all their big franchises that Disney franchises that people have been asking to do, you know, sequels to read with two for a very long time. I think we finally got to get them on Disney Plus. But not only that, the Marvel stuff, and they didn't really announce new Marvel movies per se, but they did announce Spider Man Freshman Year, which is an animated series based off of Tom Holland's kind of version of Spider Man, basically like his origin story, which the movies just glossed over. They didn't address that, mainly because it has been done so many times. I felt they wanted to get out of just telling the Spider Man story again and again, which I think was one of the best moves they did for the Spider Man franchise, Like, we get it, we know what happens. You don't have to waste time on that origin story anymore. But I do like that they're dedicating that to a series, so I'm excited for that one. And then also X Men n seven, which I love. The original X Men cartoon came out of the nineties. I used to watch that one and the Spider Man cartoon all the time. So on the Freshman Year for Spider Man, they didn't give it a release date, just that coming soon. But for X Men, that's coming out in It's not completely clear if it is a continuation of that cartoon, but from the logo and the font, it looks like it's going to be at least in that same kind of style. So I'm excited about that one. But back to movies now. They did announce Pinocchio, which will be a live action movie starring Tom Hanks. Again, he's been all over this episode, but that one's coming out and follow and I think of all the Disney movies they've had live action representations of and reboots of, I think Pinocchio actually lends itself pretty well to that. There are a lot of human characters in that, and I don't really see myself at any point to go back and watch the original Pinocchio, so that they are making a live action version of that had some promise there. They also announced a reboot of Chippendale Rescue Rangers voiced by John mulaney and Andy Samberg. That's coming out in spring. And then finally, another one I'm excited about is a reboot of Cheaper by the Dozen, the new original movie coming in March two with Gabrielle Union and Zach Brath. So that's a bunch of new stuff to look forward to on Disney if you have Disney Plus. If I had to rate my streaming services now based on what I used for movies, I think it would go like this. I would put Hulu at number one, HBO and Max at number two, Netflix at number three, and then probably Amazon at number four and Disney Plus at number five. That would be my ranking order as far as who has the best new movie content and the movies that I would go to most for, you know, just streaming movies. I think it would be different for TV. But if you're looking on maybe switching services or getting services based on what movies you can watch, that's how I would rink mine. And that's gonna do it for this week's episode. But before I hop out of here, I gotta give my listeners shout out. I give it every single week to one of you guys who listen and comments, send me an Instagram DM tweets me at Mike Destro or sends me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com is where you get me there. And this week we're actually going over to Twitter. It's from Emily who is at Emmy zero two to three, and she tweeted when you're at work and accidentally hit the one and a half times button while listening to Mike Destro's podcast. And this is funny just to me because I see this comment a lot of not only listening to my podcast, but also listening to the Bobby Bones show, which I work on, or even listening to the Bobby Cast is people accidentally hit the either one and a half times or two times speed button and everyone's like, oh, what's happening with the pod has this week? Like you guys are speaking so fast. Everything is just moving too fast, like they're an issue, And it's just funny because you don't realize that you hit that button and think there's just something wrong with the audio. So I see that a lot. If you do experience that, just check down on whatever app you're listening to it and just make sure you're on the right setting the one x time the normal time, and I will be speaking normally at this pace, not like this face like now like speaking really fast. So if that seems off, that is why. But I appreciate you Emily for listening, for tweeting at the podcast, everybody for listening to this. Hope you enjoyed the interview this week. Let me know what you thought about it again, send me a message and I'll pick one of you guys to feature next week in the Listeners Shout Out. Hope you have a great rest of your week, and until next time. Later