The Top 10 Biggest Movie Stars Right Now + Movie Review: The Adam Project (Netflix) + Trailer Park: Deep Water

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host Movie Mike A k A Mike D. And today I want to answer the question who is the biggest movie star in the world right now. I put together my list, ask you guys online crunch some numbers, so I'll let you know who I think are in the top ten as of this year. Speaking to movie stars. In the movie review, we'll talk about a new movie from Ryan Reynolds called The Adam Project, which is out on Netflix. And keep that movie star theme alive because in the trailer park we're talking about a new movie with Ben Affleck and out of the Autemus coming out on Hulu called deep Water. Appreciate you being subscribed and listening to the podcast. Special shout out to the Monday Movie crew who listens every single Monday. You guys already know what it is. It's Monday. Let's talk movies. 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 Audi je who It's classes from the Nationale Podcast Network movie podcast. We're about to take a look at all the biggest actors across the land and to find who is the biggest movie star out there right now. I still think there is such great power and being a movie star in a world where there's so many avenues of entertainment, with TV shows, with TikTok stars, with YouTubers. I still think there's such a big lasting power with a movie star, and I think they're able to enter our lives in a way that kind of makes you feel like a kid again. Thinking of a big Hollywood actor, it just feels like something unattainable. Really, what a movie star is is an actor who is incredibly marketable because they can sell tickets with their name alone. These are all people that because their name is at the top as the leading role, a majority of people would just go see it based on already knowing their body of work, being a fan of that person, and just instantly knowing that if you go into watching a movie by one of these actors, you're probably in for a pretty good time. So their faces are recognizable on screen, they have some really great chemistry with their co stars overall just have a charming presence to them. Which I think is what is more important to a movie star than a TV star. I feel like movie stars are so focused on the characters to create and the stories they're able to tell, and I feel like us as viewers, we feel like we get to know them through their characters, to the point that we actually think that they are their characters, because sometimes we don't really know a whole lot about what these people are like behind closed doors, so we just kind of know them for what they do and how they act, and the characters they are, we think they are that person. But what does it take to be a movie star? You need some talent, You need a lot of perseverance. A lot of the actors on this list have been doing this for a very long time, so they've been able to put in the hard work. You need something kind of extraordinary about you, whether it be a look, the way you take on a role, just your overall on screen presence, and then you really need a lot of good luck. And one of the best quotes I saw that defines what an actor is and how it's different from being a movie star. The quote goes, an actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that that somebody else is them, And I think that tells it perfectly. When you see a movie star, they are able to live inside that role sometimes through method act and do all these things to prepare themselves to fully be that person and take that role on is a whole another level then just oh, I'm going on screen and pretending. And I feel like that kind of talent is what defines a movie star. So with all that said, I want to get into this list and for each actor, I want to talk about what I think their signature role is their last five movies, to kind of put a time frame on what they've done recently, how much their movies have grossed overall, like every single movie their total combined gross at the box office, what they made in the last year, how many Instagram followers, and then the project they have coming out next. Because we're not talking all time movie stars here just right now. If you're gonna pull the biggest ten movie stars, who would they be? That's what this list is. So let's get in at number ten. I went with Scarlett Johnson, who I would arguably say that her signature role as Black Widow. She's done so many movies though, and when I was talking about range and versatility, like, she has one of the biggest ranges that of everybody on this list. She can do dramas, she can do sci fi with her role as Black Widow that's taking on superhero action movies. She can do romantic comedies. She can really do it all and does it all so well. Her last five movies include Seeing to Black Widow, Jojo Rabbit Marriage Story, and Avengers The End Game, which is a pretty big just right there, that's an animated movie, two superhero movies, and then two Oscar nominated movies. And overall, Scarlett Johansen her movies have grossed twelve point nine billion dollars. She's been in so many movies. She's been an actor since she was a kid, and just last year alone she made fifty six million dollars. The interesting thing about Scarlett Johansson and some of the other people on this list, she has no social media, no Instagram, no Twitter. Maybe she has secret accounts that she keeps in touch with friends and family on their Her private life is extremely private. We get details here and there when she gets married, when she has kids. She's married to Colin Joast was married to Ryan Reynolds before him, But all the other details of her private life, of her day to day life, we don't really get a glimpse into that. Her next movie coming out is a movie called Asteroid City, which is set to release later this year. It's a movie with Tom Hanks. She is somebody I will always associate with being an amazing actress. I feel like everybody he has at least one movie that they love from her. My favorite one is actually probably one of her most underrated roles, but she was the voice in her So at number ten, I'm going with Scarlett Johansson. At number nine, I'm gonna put Tom Holland, who his signature role would easily be Spider Man. His last five movies were Uncharted, Spider Man, No Way Home, Cherry, Chaos Walking, which was a bit of a flop, and then The Devil All the Time. In those five movies, I feel like, as a young of an actor as he is, he's really already started to show his range from Uncharted being a leading action star. Of course, everybody loves him as Spider Man. I think he's really taking that role, refreshed it and made it what it needs to be right now, and then you have movies like Devil all the Time and Cherry which show more of a serious side, more of just his raw talent. But I think he really has that versatility, and it's all a matter of the movies he takes on next after he has done being Spider Man, and I think he has done a pretty good job at people not just associating him with that role. I think with Toby McGuire back in the two thousand's it was harder for him to get out of that role and do other movies because those movies were so massive. But I think with Tom Holland now that he has done these other projects early on, I think he's been able to show that he's not just Peter Parker, and I feel like we will be able to take him seriously when he is done playing that role. But his movies have already grown six point two billion dollars, which it also helps that he's been in a good amount of the Avengers movies. Last year he made ten million dollars, which it never fully came out how much he made for No Way Home, so that's an estimated what he made last year. I would argue it's probably more than that. He has sixty four points three million followers on Instagram and has currently no next movie announced, And I think I would have rated Tom Holland higher on this list right now. But when I asked the question on Twitter and Facebook, I was surprised to see a lot of people said they had to google who Tom Holland was to recognize him. So maybe to me he's fully established, but to other people still a fairly new name. I think after you google him and see his picture, you instantly connect him with the movies he's been in. But just because I did see that from a certain amount of people, had to rank him a little bit lower, so I put him at number nine, Tom Holland at number eight. I'm going with Sandra Bullock. It's harder to pick a signature role for Sandra Bullock because she has been in movies for so long. I tend to associate her with the Mom on the blind Side. I think that was such a career defining role for Sandra Bullock that that's where mind mind goes. It's either The blind Side or Miss Congeniality for me. But her last five movies include The Unforgivable, Bird Box, Oceans eight. Our brand is crisis and Gravity. Her movies have grows four point eight billion dollars at the box office world wide. Just last year alone, she made twenty million dollars. And she's another actor who does not have any social media. No Instagram followers, no Twitter followers. She's completely out of that. I think she said at one point she will never take a selfie in her life. And her next movie coming out is called The Lost City. Why I decided to put Sandra Bullock at number eight. I love her work. I think I've loved pretty much every single movie I've seen Sandra Bullock in. Even her worst movies are still better than most. And I think it's because she is Sandra Bullock that I always give her the benefit of the doubt. And I just love how much of a rain she has. She's able to do very serious roles. She's able to do action roles. I mean, Back in the Day's Speed was one of my favorite movies, but she also does drama so well. Just from the blind Side. Her last movie on Netflix, The Unforgivable, I felt was a silent hit, and then she was in one of the biggest Netflix movies of all time really kind of defined and really started to make those movies a thing. With bird Box, I feel like her name alone is an instant draw to movie theaters, and she is an actor who fully embraced the online method of putting out movies without hesitation, has had such a long career and is still as relevant as ever putting out great movies. So at number eight, I'm going with Sandra Bullock at number seven because he is super hot right now. Everybody's talking about him, has really elevated himself in the last four to five years, and it is Robert Pattinson who is signature role is Edward Cullen from Twilight, and I think that's what everybody knows him has because those movies were so big, and now it's weird that people will still bring that role up when he is playing The Batman, But that just shows you how one character can stay with you throughout your entire career, even when you do a bunch of other great movies in between. I think now after The Batman, hopefully people will recognize how much she's evolved since then. But his last five movies include Yes, The Batman, The Devil, All the Time Tenant waiting for the Barbarians the King, and I threw an honorable mention since I have been talking about Batman so long The Lighthouse. His movies have grows three point eight billion dollars worldwide. Last year alone, he made three million dollars, and that's a pretty low rate for him to play the Batman. And yet another actor who does not have any social media. He has zero Insto the grand followers. There is like a Robert Pattinson fan account that has almost a million followers, but if you follow that one, that is not him, and he also has no next movie announced. I feel like Robert Pattinson is highly underrated. I was never the biggest fan of Twilight when it came out. I watched the first one in theaters and actually thought it was a pretty good movie. But I guess since I didn't really follow along in his journey through those movies, I never really associated him directly with that character. I think it was, you know, recently in his career, when he was doing movies like Good Time in the Lighthouse. I myself really started to love his movies and started to watch every single thing he came out with, and when it was announced that he was going to be the Batman. I was really excited about it, unlike maybe some other people. But I think that role has highly elevated where he stands, and if it weren't for that role, he may have not have even made this list. But I think now without a doubt, he's fully established his name. Everybody knows who he is, and everybody has an opinion on him. And that's important too, because if someone's going to criticize a role you decide to take on, that means you're doing something right. You're such a compelling actor that people question whether or not you can take this role on. And then he does those roles, completely nails them and can just show it to all his haters. So at number seven, I'm going with Robert Pattinson at number six. He's been one of everybody's favorite actors for a very long time now. Another person who has been acting since they were a kid. It is Leonardo DiCaprio. Again, so many iconic roles, but I think his signature one, if I had to say just one, it would be Jack from Titanic, has last five movies and dud don't look up. Once upon a time in Hollywood, The Revenant, Wolf of wall Street, and The Great Gatsby, and there's a pretty big time difference in some of those movies. I think now he's kind of back on doing the one movie a year. He kind of went away silently without anybody knowing after he won his Oscar and then is really back now trying different roles. And I think hasn't even reached the height of his career yet. He's almost had these different little apexes of his career in the nineties and the two thousand's and now he's having this whole different one now in the twenties. But overall, his films have grows six point six billion dollars worldwide. Last year alone, he made thirty million dollars. He has fifty two point six million followers on Instagram, and his next movie coming out this year is a Martin Scorsese movie called Killers of the Flower Moon, which looks awesome. He's also doing a movie that's coming down in a couple of years where he's playing Theodore Roosevelt. So I think he's being very particular on what projects he takes on. Now. It's kind of surprised to see him and don't look up, but after that movie came out, made a little bit more sense why he did that kind of role. But he's been one of my favorite actors for a very long time now, and he's in that category of somebody I will watch no matter what they are in, and not only that, I'll watch whatever they're in and I'll probably love it. So at number six, going with Leonardo DiCaprio getting into the top five. Now at number five going with Tom Hanks. His signature role is without a doubt for his Gump like that is just his quintessential iconic role from Tom Hanks. His last five movies, three of them being Apple TV plus exclusives with Finch, News of the World, Greyhound, and then before that he did A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood where he portrayed Mr Rogers, and then Toy Story four, which he returned as Woody in the final Toy Story film. His movies have gross nine point one billion dollars world. Last year alone he brought in fifty million dollars. I think a lot of that is from those Apple movies. And he has nine point three million followers on Instagram and his next movie coming out very soon is Elvis, where he plays Elvis's manager. And I think for the longest time, Tom Hanks was the movie star. I mean, he's been the movie star since the eighties. He is so charming, so charismatic on screen, and he's somebody who we love all the characters he does to where he already seems like he's a good guy in person, but you greatly see that come out through his characters and through his acting, and not only one of the most recognizable faces on screen, but his voice alone, as being the voice on Toy Story. He can really do it all. So at number five I went with Tom Hanks, and just above him at number four I went with Will Smith, who I feel like just has a few more iconic roles than Tom Hanks somehow, even though I think his most iconic role is actually a TV role we all associate with him, being the Fresh Prince. The first real role I associated with him, though, was j Freman in Black. His last five movies include King Richard, Bad Boys for Life, Gemini Man, which was a bit of a flop, Aladdin, and Bright. His movies have gross six point five billion dollars worldwide. Last year, he made forty million dollars. He has fifty nine points three million Instagram followers, and his next movie is called Emancipation, coming on Apple TV Plus. And why I think he ranks above Tom Hanks is because right now Will Smith is fully embracing social media. And you may say, well, this is a list of movie stars, why would that come into effect. I think he has been able to create such a presence online. He has found a way to connect with fans unlike some of the other members on this list, and through that connection, he's able to tie it back into promoting his movies and looking at the most recent body of work and his versus Tom Hanks. Right now, he's really coming off that buzz of having an Oscar worthy performance in King Richard. Before that, he was bringing back one of his most beloved franchises, Bad Boys for Life, took on a very big live action Disney adaptation and did a really good job in it. So I think he has this huge personality that he's able to expand the brand even more online a full out global superstar, and I think right now he is just a bigger actor than Tom Hanks. So number four I feel good about Will Smith. At number three on the list, I went with Tom Cruise his signature role, I would say Maverick and Top Gun. His last five movies include Mission Impossible, Fallout, American Made The Mummy, Jack Reacher, Never Go Back, and then another Mission Impossible movie, Rogue Nation. His movies have grows three point four billion dollars worldwide. Last year he made thirteen million dollars yes, six point one million followers on Instagram and his next movie coming out hopefully this year is Top Gun, Maverick and Mission Impossible seven. He's also working on an untitled movie that is being shot partly in space. And if you listen to this podcast for any amount of time, you may have heard that I'm not the biggest fan of his movies. I would lean more towards his dramas. I think rain Man is probably my favorite Tom Cruise movie. I'm excited to see the new Top Gun movie just because visually it looks amazing, and also it's just been a movie that's been teased for a couple of years now that I just need to see it at this point. But the part I can respect about Tom Cruise is his dedication and love for making a big movie, and also his passion for having his work be displayed on a big screen, the old school, classic way. I can get behind that message, and I think that's why these movies have been delayed for so long, because at the end of the day, he wants his work to be seen by the most amount of people as possible. And I also love the dedication to his work, even though it seems crazy as times. He's been an actor who really embraces doing his own stunts, doing things that no other people have done before, like shooting the movie in space, flying fighter jets, and sometimes even injuring himself in the process. And when I racked up the votes on what everybody said on Twitter and Instagram, he was clearly at the top of a lot of people's list as well. And also, like Tom Hanks, he's been starring and putting out iconic movies since the eighties, and he'll be sixty years old later this year and really has no sights in slowing down. So even though I'm not the biggest fan, I can recognize a movie star when I see one. So at number three, we're going with Tom Cruise. Now we're at the top two, and these two actors, we're easily the one everybody said online it was either this actor or this actor, so I had to outweigh them accordingly. Both of these actors. I feel like I've said on different occasions that I've seen them in so many movies in the last few years that I'm almost getting tired of them. But that's also coming from me who watches every big new movie that comes out, So maybe I'm the only one feeling that fatigue. But it seems like anytime you put a slate of new movies coming out in a year, they're probably in a couple of them. And at number two, I'm going with Ryan Reynolds. I feel like his signature role is Deadpool because it feels like he puts so much of himself in that character. His last five movies include The Adam Project, which I'll review later, Red Notice, Free Guy, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, and six Underground, which is another Netflix movie. Last year, he made twenty million dollars. His movies have grows three point one billion dollars worldwide. He has forty one point eight million followers on Instagram, and his neck movie is a Christmas movie with Will Ferrell called Spirited, and I think after that he's not doing any movies for a while, and I really like Ryan Reynolds. He's a funny, charismatic, good looking guy who is an easy choice for a leading man. And I think at any point to where your biggest criticism of an actor is there in too many movies, that is a pretty good indication of how big of a movie star they actually are. He's just an actor person that everybody loves, also does so much to give back, so above just being a movie star, He's also seems like a pretty good guy. I'll get into more how I feel his evolution has come as an actor when I review a new movie called The Adam Project. So at number two we're going with Ryan Reynolds, and at number one you probably guessed it by now. It is Dwayne the Rock Johnson, who even more so than Ryan Reynolds, is literally and everything right now. Although I don't really think he has a signature role yet in the amount of mollies he's done, I still don't feel like there's one I associate with the Rock. I just really know him as being one of the most famous people in the world right now, and he's just in every single movie that comes out. Maybe it's Hobbs from Fast and the Furious. Maybe it's Maui and Majana, or maybe he hasn't even done it yet. It could be Black Adam when it comes out later this year. But his last five movies include Red Notice, which he also started with Ryan Reynolds, Jumanji, The Next Level, Hobbs, and Shaw, Skyscraper. I did like his disaster movie Phase there for a minute. Between that and Rampage. Last year alone, he made fifty million dollars. He has three hundred and three million followers on Instagram. His movies have gross three point five billion dollars at the pox office. His next movie coming out is an animated DC movie called League of Pets, and then later this year he'll be in Black Adam and Kind Along the same lines of Will Smith. He has also really used social media to his advantage to really take his level of movie stardom to a whole another level. And the thing about the Rock is he has those three and three million followers, So when he is working on a project, you know he is working on a project because he is posting about it as he's filming and promoting it as he goes along. He really does a great job at her promoting every single thing he's a part in and making it seem like the biggest thing in the world, from a tequila brand to his energy drink to his under armour line, but really kind of ramps it up promoting all of his movies. I don't think I would be as excited for Black Adam coming out this year if it wasn't for him kind of documenting some of that process. But I think right now he is the quintessential movie star. And it's crazy because I remember him mostly from back in the day. I was such a fan of wrestling, and I remember the first time he took on a movie role and was stepping outside of wrestling. That was a whole new thing, and he really kind of created that path of being able to take somebody coming from a profession like that too, becoming the biggest movie star. And a lot of that was through making a lot of bad movies. If you look early in his career, he really didn't have a hit until really like within the last ten years. But we kind of forget about all that early on stuff, and I feel like he has kind of created that past for other wrestlers turn actors like John Cena, Brock, Lesner, Batista. But the Rock is so famous in such a big movie star that I think, out of everybody on this list, he's maybe the only one that my mom could name and identify. You could go up to anybody on the street and they will instantly know who The Rock is and have seen him in at least one movie. So I think for all those reasons and more is why I put The Rock at number or one. I will do some honorable mentions now, because I know if you've listened to this entire list, you're like, well, what about this actor? And the ones I felt that were really close to making the list, where Ben Affleck, who was in a really good spot of his career right now, Mark Wahlberg, who is consistently putting out decent movies. I would say I did hear an interesting thing he said the other day. He said, not only is it just so hard to get a movie made, it's even harder to make a good movie. And I feel like his career reflects that. Also close to making the top ten, where Michael B. Jordan's who was still on the rise of his career, Denzel Washington, who also made forty million dollars last year. Daniel Craig, who was the highest paid actor last year and making a hundred million dollars, Gal Gado who has that also a really strong last few years. Jennifer Lawrence, Adam Sandler maybe if I would have been making this list ten fifteen years ago would have made a list. And then Brad Pitt, who I just felt his most recent audio of work really wasn't there. So that's my list. If there's another actor you think deserve to make the top ten, you can always send me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com or hit me up on Twitter and Instagram at Mike destro. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free review of The Adam Project starring Ryan Reynolds, which is streaming now on Netflix. Where Ryan Reynolds plays a time traveling fighter pilot named Adam and he asked to team up with this twelve year old self on a mission to save the future. Sounds great, doesn't it. Before I get into my review of The Adam Project, here's just a little bit of the trailer. Do you remember this? I mean, if this is happening to me, it already happened to you, right unless it works like a multiverse where each revels and multi verse. My god, we watching you many movies? Soft? Is it really? Badly? It's not great? Find con get ready to run. So I have to say it's been a while since I've watched a movie that made me feel like a kid again in a way that's different than any superhero movie or anything like that I've seen recently. This movie really has some kind of nostalgic vibes. And while I was watching this movie, it made me kind of think of there is some kid out there, maybe five, six, seven, ten years old, who was watching this movie, and in fifteen twenty years when they have a movie podcast like I do, this will be a movie they will be talking about that changed their life as a kid, in a movie that will probably stay with them for a very long time. And why I think that is because this movie incorporates sci fi with the time traveling. It has the action, but it also has this emotional attachment that brings them all together. So it reminded me of watching movies like e t for the first time, movies like The Goonies, or even like Back to the Future, all of these quintessential movies that us as movie fans just have to watch. They're just part of the DNA that go into making up all your tasted movies, and I feel like The Adam Project is that new added movie into that category. So, like I said, this movie is about Ryan reynolds character is this fighter pilot named Adam. Crash lands into two coming from the future, and he lands right outside of his old house. He's injured, needs to find a way to get back into his ship and back continuing on to his mission, and that's where he meets his twelve year old self, who is young Adam in the movie, played by a new actor named Walker Scobell, and they have to team up together. He has to convince him to come with them further into the past. You also have Jennifer Gardner and Mark Ruffalo in this movie, which I felt was a cool re union from thirteen going on thirty. I thought it was cool seeing Mark Ruffalo and Ryan Reynolds together because they are both separate in the Marvel universe, Ryan Reynolds being Deadpool and Mark Ruffalo being the Hulk. Somehow, this is the first movie they've ever done together, and I just felt like this movie had all the best elements of a big Hollywood movie, and it kind of just gives you that feeling again of watching something fun but done right to where both kids and adults will enjoy this movie. And I think it's probably one of the best movies I've seen in the last three years. And I think a big part of that is obviously because of Ryan Reynolds and how I was talking about earlier is I've kind of felt like he's been playing the same character over and over, which is a character he does well, which is a lot of you know himself, But I feel like in this movie there was a little bit of that, but it was kind of him showing a little bit of an evolution in his journey as an actor. He was kind of known very early in the beginning of doing all the these comedies. Has now stepped more into the action and Marvel movies, but I feel like this is a step further into where this movie also has a pretty big emotional side to it, and he has a pretty three D character in this to where it's not just the funny guy with the one liners and the pop culture references. There's some actual substance here. There's a love story here, there's an emotional connection with him and his younger self, and taken get a step further with him and his relationship with Mark Ruffalo, who plays his dad, and Jennifer Gardner, who plays his mom. I just saw a lot more in Ryan Reynolds that I had really ever seen before in the movie. And not that it's a super serious, dark, emotional movie. It's still a very grounded and fun movie at the core of it. But it was nice to see that element here that I really wasn't expecting. I thought it was gonna be just a straight on sci fi movie. So I think it does a lot of things well. It has the drama, The sci fi is really great in this, the action is great, and then the comedy is just at the bottom of all that. It's not at the forefront. It's like the warm fuzz and the glue that kind of holds it all together. But yeah, I just felt like this is one of the best things you can watch on Netflix right now, and I am surprised that a movie of this scale is rolling out straight to Netflix. And it's kind of even blending it further now that to make a big movie like this, you don't have to put it out in theaters, and I love that. I think for the first time, I'm really starting to see how certain movies can just benefit more from having a Netflix release, and as long as a lot of people are there watching them, it really has no difference. I think for the longest times it just felt like, Oh, only the movies with less production or the movies with you know, lesser known actors are going to Netflix, therefore they're not as good a movies. But I feel Netflix has really made it a point to get some A list actors, and you also have a new talent here with Walker Scobell, who plays young Adam in the movie. He's only thirteen years old. And when I found interesting about him is he learned to play a younger version of Ryan Reynold by watching Deadpool, like he was such a big fan of that movie. Kind of learned how Ryan Reynolds speaks, his mannerisms and what a younger version of him would look like, and did it in this movie and did it really well. So overall I thought this is a really strong movie for Ryan Reynolds and a step in the right direction for him. I would give The Adam Project four out of five spaceships. I think it's a must watch right now on Netflix. Now it's time for the part of the podcast where I break down a movie trailer of the film coming to you very soon in theaters or streaming online, in a segment called It's time to head down to Movie miaul And this week, I want to talk about a movie coming out on Hulu this Friday. It's stars Ben Affleck and Anna the Ottomas, called deep Water. It's a thriller romance. I really don't know exactly what to call this movie. So many things going on in the trailer, and here's just a little bit of that. Why is mom so the frill around other people's I think you love me? Of course you're not born. Do you think whatever beach is happy? I hope so so. I hope that gives you a little bit of sense of what this movie is about. It is described as a thriller slash erotic thriller. The movie is about Ben Affleck and under the unmask character. They are a married couple and he allows her to have affairs with other guys in hopes of saving their marriage, and the whole thing takes a twisted turn when all these people around them start showing up dead, So it's safe to say it looks like things get pretty messy here. Interesting thing about this movie and another reason I'm kind of excited to see this, And it's actually been delayed for a while now and then was supposed to come out in theaters back in January, but now it is seeing the light of day on Hulu this Friday. And this is the movie that Ben Affleck and Ana Ottamus met filming back in they sparked dating rumors while they were making this movie. They sparked dating rumors while they were making this movie, and then officially came out as a couple as a result of this, and then they split in early one, and Ben Affleck went on to date his former x fiance, Jennifer Lopez. So I feel like this is a movie that neither of them want to promote right now because of their past, and I really haven't seen any promotion. I don't know if it's for that exact same reason, but I imagine it would be hard to promote a movie like this with the subject matter being as steamy and scandalous as it is to go out and talk about it with your ex. But this movie also stars Jacob Lordy, who you may know from Euphoria, and I feel like he is really an up and coming movie star now. And I'll admit I really didn't take him that serious as an actor when I saw him and all the Kissing Booth movies, But after watching him in Euphoria and saw how much of a good actor he actually is. Not just being at all charming good looking dude, he can actually really act. So I've seen his comedic side in movies, I've seen his more dramatic side on Euphoria, So now I kind of want to see how all of that translates into the big screen. So this is definitely a movie I want to watch this weekend. If you're into psychological thrillers or erotic thrillers as they put it, I think this one looks pretty good. Again. It comes out this Friday, March eight on Hulu if you want to stream that. This breaks aedition of movie laws and that is going to do it for another episode of the podcast here, And this is the time on every single episode where I give my listeners shout out out. It's just my appreciation to you for listening every single week. Being a part of the movie crew. How do you get a shout out. The easiest way to get a shout out, though, is tag me on your Instagram story, whether it be a picture of your dashboard, a screenshot of my heart radio app or Apple podcast, Spotify, wherever you listen. I'll repost those and then give you a shout out on the next week's episode. And this week I am shouting out Andrea South who did that. She posted a picture of her car dashboard listening to last week's ranking of every single Batman movie and wrote, sometimes I have to agree to disagree with this man, but I am still part of the Monday Morning crew nonetheless. And that's what I always say. You don't have to agree with all of my movie opinions, and a matter of the fact, you just won't. And that's the great thing about movies. We can come on here and debate them and discuss them online. We can both watch the same movie and have very different opinions, but the conversation it opens up is what makes it fun and that's why I do this podcast. So appreciate you Andrea for that tag in your Instagram story. Thanks everybody for listening to this week's episode. Coming out later this week on Thursday will be the spoiler episode of The Batman my full review with all the details, every single plot point. I'll get into that later this week, so we've had a chance to watch it now and want to hear that spoiler field review that will be available here on the feed later this week. Hope you have a great rest of your week. I'll talk to you next time, and until then, go out and watch good movies. Later