iTunes Exclusive Episode The Hollars

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Welcome.
My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and you'll understand what I just did
there here in just a minute just because it's kind of a play on words if you will.
During me across the desk as he does from time to time is the official fact checker
of this show and a man who is not a twin, but he is very, very nice on his own.
You may know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and even don't for him will come down for
welcome.
You don't know, I always make that joke that they asked about the have kids, now I say
not that I know of, I might have a twin out there that I don't know of.
We all have a doppelganger.
We all have a doppelganger, but I do have my other two friends, me myself and I.
That's true.
Yeah.
They talked to me a lot.
Yeah.
You hear voices in your head come to you, they understand, they talked to you.
Okay.
Fair enough.
They talked to me.
Whatever we do one of these things, it is to review something and this particular episode
is no different.
We are here for you to review a film directed by Jim from the office.
On Krasinski, also significant other of the Emily Blunt.
It is called The Hollers.
Let me just run this cast down for you.
Margo Martin Dale Charlto Copley, Richard Jenkins, John Krasinski, Anna Kendrick, Ashley
Dyke from 12 years of slave, Mary Kay Place, Charlie Day, Josh Grobin.
All these people are in this film.
Of course, you're at this whole thing.
Yes, we got to think our best friends.
And I'm being the great marketing.
We got to think Josh, everybody there.
We love those guys.
They're such great people.
They're like us, do these kind of things and review them for the Empire so they can make
very informed judgments for they lay down their harder and money for films.
Here's what you need to know.
What's that?
John Krasinski plays John Holler, H-O-L-L-A-R, not like Velvet Skides, completely different.
He is a comic book artist in New York City who finds out that his mother, Sally, played
by the amazing Margo Martin Dale, has fallen ill and is going to require surgery.
So he returns home to Connecticut, leaving behind his very pregnant lady friend, Rebecca
played by the great Anna Kendrick.
Up in the air.
Yes.
Yeah.
Pitch perfect.
Still up in the air.
Oh, yeah.
She wasn't that upset.
Yeah.
She was going to lead to that.
So spending the week at his hometown and dealing with everything there and his brother
Ron played by the great Charltoe, hopefully his dad, Don played by Richard Jenkins, who
I found out told Krasinski, he loved the script, but he would only do it if they could
get Margo Martin Dale.
Oh, really?
And so he got Margo Martin Dale the next day, Richard Jenkins joined the cast.
Oh, killer.
And there's just a lot of things that he deals with as he goes home.
Yes, dealing with the sick wife and other issues.
Which would be tough.
Let's just not even bury the lead.
Okay.
I love this movie.
So did I.
It doesn't even, it runs an hour 28.
So it doesn't even run an hour and a half.
It's not a long film.
No.
It's not one of those, I don't know how to say it.
It's, it's an independent film that's not an indie film.
Exactly.
It's not a big push.
It's not a big budget film, but it's got the feel of a very professionally done film.
It doesn't go out of its way to be artsy, artsy, artsy.
It doesn't want to be true over the head with universal truths.
Like this is just a good family oriented dromity.
It's not a family film by any stretch.
No, but it's a film without family.
Exactly.
Chris Sinski is one of those guys that it's very, it's for years.
It's been very, very difficult for me to break him away from Jim on the office.
I was, I'm still always, I agree with you though.
But he does a good job here of kind of taking John and really kind of molding him himself.
So there's little bits of that kind of a character in this character.
But this character is a really, really good stretch for him because he's not always trying
to go out of his way to be goofy and quirky.
There's a real grounding to him I felt in this.
Oh, he did great.
And when he, the film for started, I thought about, it's Jim.
It's Jim, but after a while, I've took that thing out of my mind.
So I like the, the revolution in his acting over the last couple of years.
Because it is hard to distance yourself.
You think of like Daniel Radcliffe, this Harry Potter.
Absolutely.
Same thing.
Carry Fisher.
Mark Hamill.
That's, but he does a really good job here.
Yes, he does.
It's the same kind of character, but he doesn't make it the same character.
Which I really, really dug.
I thought the chemistry here between the entire, this, this cast is rock solid.
Top to bottom, everybody brings their a game on a level that they almost don't have
to, but you appreciate how much they do.
Now I see why he wanted, uh, Margot Martin Dale in this role.
If they, they, Margot Martin Dale should be everybody's mom.
Like exactly.
She is, she's one of those people.
First of all, probably one of the most underrated actors of our time.
I'm just going to say it.
Yes.
She even got an Oscar nomination.
Yeah, I believe, didn't she for, um, for Osay Jordan, uh, Orange County?
I don't think she did on that.
Or Osay County.
She went.
She won the Emmy for, uh, justified.
Well, deserve.
But, uh, I don't think she ever got the, uh, the big knot for the Oscar.
Um, I'm going to look that up for you right now.
I could have sworn she got nominated for Augusto's H County.
I don't think she did, but, well, you know, underappreciated, I think when it comes
to that thing.
She's been in so much stuff in her career as is, the word is iconic when it comes
to me.
That's what reminds me of, um, but going on to something else, one thing I really liked
about this, she was not nominated.
What?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There is, there is something wrong with this.
Exactly.
Um, her, this film had some, I saw the trailer, same kind of a nice old, you know, emotional,
little film.
Like a fun little romp.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And there's a lot of issues dealing with deep subjects, but not too deep, not too
intense.
You're not going to get the tear jerk out of it, which is fine.
Right.
Because they did a perfect job, which I put, and I'm going to put my, uh, coming
written, uh, www dot cobaospaqas.com, that's a website.
Perfect mix of the seriousness, the motionness, but also the comedy, the comedy, the comedy,
the comedy, the comedy.
There's a lot of great comedic moments that don't overpower the emotion of it, which
I really, really do.
Perfect mix.
There's kind of like in a way, not as good as, but kind of like Gleason.
Remember how you could cry then laughing every day?
Yeah.
Okay.
I see where you're going with that.
I, I thought they had the comedy at the right times.
It added to the kind of lift up when there's something sad going on in the emotional realm
of this film, um, Charlie Day, Charlie Day.
I'm a big fan of Charlie Day always.
Yeah, I've been, and he's not in this movie a whole ton, but he impacts it in his
comedy.
But he's perfect.
And yeah.
And if I've got to find one strange thing about this film for me, and we, um,
friend of the show, the King of Boeing Andrew Beckham and I were actually talking about
this a little bit earlier than we recorded this.
Charlie Day is involved in a storyline that just kind of comes and goes.
I never felt there was any real closure.
Yeah.
It was kind of weird for me, but it didn't take away.
And we can go ahead and say that in the film, his wife is John Chrysons, he's character
as high school sweetheart.
And so they go have dinner together one night, and there's no real closure to that.
Which was kind of odd.
Yeah.
That's the one thing that's missing out.
But it didn't take away from the enjoyment of this film by a long shot, which was,
which makes it a bigger testament to how great this film is.
Yeah.
Charlie, just, you knew he saw problems coming with the old boy friend coming home
and then dinner at their house and it adds in, it got a little subplot in there
which I kind of liked, um, but again, no closure.
What happened there?
I don't know.
That's why only if I had one big gripe about this, this plot, that would be a big gripe.
I mean, no.
No.
It gave closure to about everything else under the sun.
What, I tell you what interaction I really liked, though, was between Ron and
John, the two brothers.
Oh, yeah.
I thought to work with John Krasinski and Charlottesville,
Copley Charlottesville, Copley's character, uh, just recently divorced.
Lost his job as living in the parents basement still trying to come to grips with his
ex-wife and his two daughters moving on to a new man, uh, played by the great Josh
Grobin.
And yes, that Josh Grobin was Reverend A.M.
Reverend A.M.
It's their interaction of, you know, John scene as the more favored son who's gone
away and trying to make something in the south where, where John's kind, I mean, where
Ron's kind of the still stuck in the hometown still trying to find his way brother.
And that, you know, actually work for the dad's company.
Yeah.
And it really, I mean, all the entire family in general, you really felt like they'd
known each other since they were, you know, knee-high to a grasshopper.
I did notice though, very interestingly, one of John Krasinski's first gigs in Hollywood
was in a commercial with Vargo Martindale, really, did not know that.
Yes.
Very interesting.
But the thing I liked about that family makeup is a lot of films.
They try to make it where the family is perfect.
Everything's hunky, dory, all that, because no, this family is to functional.
Just showed a normal family.
I could see a bit show them a Christmas time.
I could see shenanigans on Christmas day where they ham gets thrown out the window.
But that's what you expect on Christmas day, normally, now with a normal family.
It was normality in this film, real life.
It's something you relate to this a lot of things.
The emotion in this film is raw and it's beautiful.
You see how it can connect people, but it can still tear people apart at the same time.
A very, very witty script written by James C. Strauss.
So, it's listed in this film as Jim Strauss.
Just, I really, really dug this script.
He hasn't written a lot of things that you might know.
He wrote a movie last year called People Places Things with German Clement,
which was very, very highly touted.
He wrote a film in 2009 called The Winning Season.
This is, it's a really, really well written script, where everybody kind of,
you really understand the, the storylines of every character in it, which I really, really dug.
I, I, I, I really, except for that finale, I really can't find anything,
but again, I have to, I loved the comedy.
Perfect amount.
Good comedy.
I did not see coming from that trailer.
There were some, I did not see that comedy coming, and it really added enhanced to the film.
It did make me interested in, uh, pretzels and ice cream.
That's, that does.
There were many of that.
There's, there's a nice moment that deals with pretzels and ice cream,
which is very, very funny.
And then Charlie, even to have to, you know, Charlie didn't even add to that in his Charlie day.
He's that kind, he's still not the same kind of brawl as you remember in horrible bosses.
And I'll tell you one of the moments that really, really got me, uh, as, as the scene as,
from the night before the surgery that there's some prep that has to be done.
Mm-hmm.
Very beautifully shot, beautifully accurate.
Totally accurate.
It hits you right in the feels, just like it's supposed to.
I just, outside of that, one little, 80, 80 thing, like, I can't find fault in this film.
It was so good.
My question was, make up used on that or did that really happen?
You know what, I would love to know the answer to that myself because I looked for it and couldn't find it.
And that's all we don't want to go to.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Wow, that's a good question.
Did, did, um, and just great interaction by everybody.
It's beautifully shot.
It ends on a really beautiful note.
Yeah, I just can't say enough about this film.
Okay, I'm going to give a little advice here to the Empire.
If you're doing that first date, first off, never go to a movie on the first date because you don't really talk and get to know somebody go to a restaurant.
But on the second date, if you want to do a movie, this is a perfect second date movie, I think.
It is ready PG-13.
But still, we have to put it out there.
Yeah, you know, there's some language and some references and stuff, but nothing that's, you know, jaw dropping or offensive.
But I think this will be a very good second date film.
Okay, that's fair.
Or first date night at a film thing you could say, first film date.
Well, if we're going to go that way, let's go ahead and just do our final analysis.
Let's do the way we do the final analysis on the shows.
We're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down any other kind of reading system that you may have heard before.
We do things a little bit differently because our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the Empire, they wanted to go deeper.
We're going to go deeper.
Two questions.
First question that we asked is, would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, number done here.
But if the answer is yes, the second area question is, how far are you willing to go to see it?
Here's the spectrum from best to worst.
Full price of the theater, twilight, matinee, early morning, second one of the dollar theater, red box, netflix table.
Dawn, would you see this film again?
Oh, that's a definite.
How far you want to go?
I'm going to give it the coveted.
So full price at the theater.
And I will say this.
Before you go, you know, get a big of pretzels.
See the movie and then go on a date.
This would be perfect.
Go to an ice cream shop after the date and bring that for you.
I think it nice ice cream after the film.
Plus and pretzels would just be ideal.
I'm going to definitely see this film again.
And I will see it in any way shape or form that I can.
Yeah.
I think this is going to get kind of a limited run.
I'm such a lead.
What a mouthpiece.
You can find a theater that's playing this film.
Go see this film.
If not, get your hands on it as quickly as you can.
It really is that good.
What a mouth.
Get the word of mouth out.
I think.
Go now.
Go off.
I think it will open up.
Have a good release.
But I think the word of mouth will really help out.
But again, we got to think everybody are best friends.
Josh, everybody to allied for the hookup today.
I'm going to see this thing.
So thank you.
Such a fan of those guys.
We love them.
They're directed by John Cresinski written by James C. Strauss.
Go.
Go again.
Go often.
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