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Episode Summary

Premiere Pick ‘Thunder Force’, Alexei’s fear of chilli, and best friend duos. All in this episode with Alexei Toliopoulos and Gen Fricker.

Episode Notes

Premiere Pick ‘Thunder Force’, Alexei’s fear of chilli, and best friend duos. All in this episode with Alexei Toliopoulos and Gen Fricker.

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Episode Transcription

Alexei Toliopoulos:

If you're invisible like Octavia Spencer, she's doing the snooping. She's not doing the fighting, she's doing the snooping around, checking things out, going through files, et cetera.

Gen Fricker:

I love rifling through things, I love snaking around. I love being quiet.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

You love to be coy.

Gen Fricker:

I love to be coy. Demure? Me? Sure, I love that.

Gen Fricker:

Hello, I'm Gen Fricker.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And I'm Alexei Toliopoulos.

Gen Fricker:

Welcome to the big film buffet.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

A podcast for pop culture fans and people looking for what to watch recommendations.

Gen Fricker:

Today, it's our main course. We recommend you a Netflix film for you to watch this weekend.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And of all the films out this weekend, this is the one you should spend your time with. We're talking about Thunder Force. Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Bobby Cannavale. What more needs to be said?

Speaker 3:

Lydia, no. Do not throw that bus. Lydia.

Lydia:

I got it.

Speaker 3:

No, they're too far away. Do not throw that bus.

Lydia:

I can't hear you because I'm literally throwing a bus.

Gen Fricker:

Alexi. This is one of the biggest releases of the year on Netflix, highly anticipated. What's it about?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Well, it's basically a superhero genre movie comedy, so kind of like parody of your big action adventure superhero movies. We've got Melissa McCarthy teaming up with Octavia Spencer. These are unlikely superheros that are going up against a team of miscreants, AKA the bad guys, who have also got super powers. So it's kind of like a big, silly, superhero comedy action adventure with some weird superhero world building and great villains with Bobby Cannavale and Jason Bateman, and it's in the same vein of other movies that Melissa McCarthy has made, which are a genre parody. I'm thinking about Spy and that kind of big, broad, brassy, silly, goofy comedy.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's absolutely not taking itself seriously. It's a friendship comedy as well. If you're into movies like Charlie's Angels, Bridesmaids, that kind of thing, where it's big broad comedy.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I think you're right. I think that's what this film really is about. It's a very nice movie about nice friendships, people reconnecting, and then them kicking butt.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Kicking a few butts here and there.

Gen Fricker:

It's also written and directed by Melissa McCarthy's real life partner, Ben Falcone, and it's kind of got their regular group of suspects, the people that usually pop up in their movies. Like you said, Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale, and it's got Octavia Spencer in it who I didn't realise has been friends with Melissa McCarthy for 20 years.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah.

Gen Fricker:

It's great because in this film, they play childhood friends who are reunited and then given superpowers.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

That's so sweet. You love to see that, right? Real friends on screen together, and it goes to that point of yours where Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy have this troupe of actors that they keep working with. Bobby Cannavale's back here, and it gets me excited. She's back with Jason Bateman as well from Identity Thief. I think they play so well together, but I love that idea of like a troop or a stable of actors.

Gen Fricker:

A clique.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

A clique, dude.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, I love it too. It made me think of Adam Sandler, the Happy Madison Productions crew, the regular people you see popping up in most Adam Sandler movies. I love that Steve Buscemi is part of the [Sandlerverse 00:03:43].

Alexei Toliopoulos:

You've got a respected character actor up against a character actor they respect even more, Mr. Rob Schneider.

Gen Fricker:

Yes.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And I did do prayer hands when I said his name out loud.

Gen Fricker:

John Lovitz.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh, Lovitz or leave it, I love it, baby. One of my all time heroes. We've got those great cliques. You've got the Wes Anderson crew. He went to uni with the Wilson brothers. I'm talking Owen, I'm talking Luke and I'm talking Brian Wilson.

Gen Fricker:

What?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

From the Beach Boys, I know.

Gen Fricker:

The Beach Boys.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Now, there's a third Wilson brother, whose name I will never learn.

Gen Fricker:

Yes, the Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg crew. They're always writing and making stuff together. I just love watching these writing teams, directing teams, acting teams, all coming together, all creating these little laboratories of comedy, especially.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I'm going to make a declaration right now.

Gen Fricker:

Do it.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Melissa McCarthy, the new Sandman, the new Adam Sandler.

Gen Fricker:

I see that. Very physical.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Absolutely.

Gen Fricker:

Very big.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yes.

Gen Fricker:

Can do a serious role. Like we've seen, she got nominated for an Oscar the other year.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yes. That is a great performance as well, in the movie by Marielle Heller called-

Gen Fricker:

Can you ever forgive me.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Mm-hmm (affirmative), alongside Richard. E Grant. She can do it all, dude.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah. I actually, speaking on Melissa McCarthy co-stars, can I give you a little quiz?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh my God, I'm scared.

Gen Fricker:

It'll be fine. I'm going to give you three actresses. One of them hasn't been in a Melissa McCarthy movie.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

There's two co-stars and one no star.

Gen Fricker:

Yes.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Okay.

Gen Fricker:

Okay. Here we go. First one, Elisabeth Moss. Second one, Alison Brie. Third one, Heather Graham.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

This is a really tough one. I'm going to cut one out now.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, cut it.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I know she is in the movie, The Kitchen, with Elizabeth Moss.

Gen Fricker:

Yes.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Okay, then I-

Gen Fricker:

You've got Alison Brie or Heather Graham. Heather Graham, AKA Felicity Shagwell.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

That's how I know her and I'll always remember her as Felicity Shagwell, the star of The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Gen Fricker:

Exactly.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

She's one of the [inaudible 00:05:49] characters of that movie.

Gen Fricker:

All right. Or Alison Brie, who you might know from Community or Mad Men.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I love her as well. This is so tough. I might actually have to take a guess.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, take a punt.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I'm going to say, Melissa McCarthy actually has been around for a long time as well. I'm going back, she's in Charlie's Angels.

Gen Fricker:

Iconic outfit as well.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

So she's in that generation too, not just Monster. So Heather Graham's around there too. You know what? I'm taking a punt and I feel like I'm going to be wrong, but I'm going to say she's never been a movie with Alison Brie.

Gen Fricker:

You would be correct.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh my gosh. What movie is she in with Heather Graham?

Gen Fricker:

Hang Over part three.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I've only seen Hang Over part one and part two. I left it open-ended because I don't want to see those characters' stories come to a close.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, we don't want to know what happens in part three, yeah.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

That's another pack of actors, the wolf pack.

Gen Fricker:

Oh, is that real?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah. That's from the movie. They call themselves the wolf pack.

Gen Fricker:

I blocked a lot of that movie out.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I've got encyclopaedic knowledge of Hang Over part one, okay?

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, well obviously, you need to see part three.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, I got to close it up.

Gen Fricker:

Close the ring.

Gen Fricker:

It is a nice idea for a film. I would love to do a superhero film with you, Alexei.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Wow, really?

Gen Fricker:

Don't you feel like that would be fun?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, I guess to fly would be to dream.

Gen Fricker:

We would actually be superheroes.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I got a lost with the reality of that little accident stuff on prime.

Gen Fricker:

You actually got into the movie magic. I mean, would that be your superhero power?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh, to fly, wow. Yeah, I guess because I'm kind of sick of getting public transport everywhere. Flying, teleportation would be cool, but it's not that practical. If I had a real actual super power, honestly, the first thing that came to mind was like to handle spicy.

Gen Fricker:

What?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I can't handle spicy food, and it's a bit of a detriment to my actual life.

Gen Fricker:

What do you mean? How is that a detriment to your life?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I see spicy food and I want to eat it, and I can't do it. The Greek diet did not set me up to take spicy food in there. The highest threshold I can take is maybe sriracha, and I'm dying to go one step further to see what that's like.

Gen Fricker:

But you can build up your spice tolerance.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Too scary. I want it to be a supernatural power that comes to me.

Gen Fricker:

You just want to go from zero to 100, spice wise.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yes. Exactly. Zero to hero, baby. Hercules style.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, right.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

What would your superpower be?

Gen Fricker:

I mean, not that.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Okay. Okay, here's a scenario where I can handle spicy, I could handle the heat. Me and you were on a job, we're fighting crime, and then a bad guy comes and he tries to shoot you. What do I do? I get in front, swallow the bullet.

Gen Fricker:

Okay, yeah. That's the ultimate spice, I guess. A bullet.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

That's the biggest spice, is a hot piece of metal.

Gen Fricker:

That's very spicy. That actually makes me want to gag.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And then I have lead poisoning several years later.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, and choked to death on the bullet.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Then you have to do the Heimlich, or you shoot it back at him.

Gen Fricker:

But what an origin story for me. 10 years later, I'm trying to take down the biggest villain in the game, Jalapeno, and I'm like, "You killed my friend."

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Well, what are you fighting Jalapeno with?

Gen Fricker:

Well, it's actually pertinent to the movie because one of the characters, Octavia Spencer, has the ability to go invisible, and I would love to be invisible. I mean, I've really enjoyed during the pandemic wearing glasses and a mask.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh wow, yes.

Gen Fricker:

Which is just normal superhero, I guess, just wearing a mask, having no identity,

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Instead of a domino mask, it's just like, yeah, cover the bottom part of your head.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, and also I love gossip.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, you could eaves drop so much.

Gen Fricker:

Exactomundo, I'd love to be in, and I love to spook people. Pick up a vase, put it down, turn on some lights, things like that. Just little spooks, but I think it would be powerful.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I hope that one day you come back as a ghost.

Gen Fricker:

I hope so too, frankly. I feel like I'm going to be too healed though, and I'm going to go straight to heaven, or hell. You know what I mean? I don't think I'm going to have any unfinished business, because I don't do a lot.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

You like to get things done as well.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

You would tick them off and you're like, "Yep. Okay, that was a good deed. That's one to hell and one up to heaven."

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, if there's a crime or something to be solved, I'm too apathetic to stay on this earthly plane and haunt people.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I think that's cool, because if you're invisible, you're doing-

Gen Fricker:

Apathy is my super-hero.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, that's it. If you're invisible like Octavia Spencer, she's doing the snooping. She's not doing the fighting, she's doing the snooping around, checking things out, going through files, et cetera.

Gen Fricker:

I love rifling through things, I love sneaking around, I love being quiet.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

You love to be coy.

Gen Fricker:

I love to be coy. Demure? Me? Sure, I love that.

Lydia:

We need super names.

Speaker 3:

Ooh, what's this?

Lydia:

Oh, I've been decorating for you. You know what? I think my super name is going to be The Hammer.

Speaker 3:

But Lydia, you don't carry a hammer.

Lydia:

You don't have to be so literal.

Speaker 3:

Can't I just be Emily?

Lydia:

Oh God. Nobody wants to get saved by somebody named Emily.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

You're invisible, I'm a spice guy. What should our names be? Should they be, you're Invisible and I'm the Spice Guy?

Gen Fricker:

I was going to say, you're Baby Spice?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And I think you'd be Mrs. because you're married in this comic book universe. Mrs. not to be seen, but can still be heard.

Gen Fricker:

The Invisible Gal.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

What about Eve Dropper?

Gen Fricker:

Oh, my God, I love that.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yes.

Gen Fricker:

Okay, again though, with your spice, what's a food that really comes alive with spice?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Tremendous nachos or something.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah. You could be the Tremendous Nacho Man, and then when you attack people, you throw chips at them, like little corn chips.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, gooey corn chips.

Gen Fricker:

Yes, and you know your calling card is just a trail of guacamole and sour cream.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yes, I want to have a big backpack that's full of molten cheese that I can squirt at people.

Gen Fricker:

Burn people in [inaudible 00:11:39].

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I'm living the full fantasy.

Gen Fricker:

If you're living for this, please get in touch with your fan fiction about the Incredible Nacho and the Mrs Heard But Not Seen.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

The Eve Dropper.

Gen Fricker:

The Eve Dropper, that's the one. But the scene I really love in this movie is between the two main characters, Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, where they're about to go on their first mission with their new superpowers so they're in the car trying to hype themselves up with a song. Do you have a need that before you go out or something like that?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, it's like a walk-on song, right?

Gen Fricker:

Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Like Hold On, I'm Coming by Sam and Dave, that's a big one for me, where now man, I'm ready to go. Then maybe for my superhero walk on song, it would be like, (singing) and that's me, because I'm out there literally looking for some hot stuff to swallow.

Gen Fricker:

Oh my God. Okay, well I don't know what could possibly top that, being invisible. For some reason, Holly Vallance's Kiss Kiss.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

That is one of my favourite songs.

Gen Fricker:

And that's how you know, I'm in the room.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

That's when you can finally come in.

Gen Fricker:

What I love about this movie is that it takes all of those superhero tropes and it's very loving with them. You can clearly tell that it's written with a lot of love for the superhero genre, and then it subverts it. An example of this I really liked is that it is set in Chicago. I think that I've heard, it's been said a lot about Batman and Gotham City, is that Gotham City is Chicago viewed through a whiskey glass.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah.

Gen Fricker:

It's dark, it's brooding, and the fact that they've taken it to this literal interpretation of setting in Chicago, I feel like is a nice nod to that. But then also, side fact, it was actually shot in Atlanta. The other thing I really like about it is, I haven't really seen middle-aged women as superheroes.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh yeah, never.

Gen Fricker:

I think maybe Watchmen, that's about it.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Absolutely, there's so much good comedy to be mined out of that, but so much heart, and This movie manages to do both. One of the great running jokes in this movie I think relates exactly to that in that they're stuck in these super suits, they've only got one set of them each, and so they just keep getting stinkier and stinkier. That's a good way of addressing something like superhero comedy that I've not seen done before.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, it's funny. I love picking up on little details like that. I've never seen a female superhero with a daughter who's actually part of the action as well. I mean, usually, it's something tragic happens to the family.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Exactly, it's the origin story.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, exactly. Whereas I like that this has a bit of heart to it. Yeah, and it's a journey that you both see them going on as well, which is nice.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, that's the emotional core of this movie and why it works, because it is just about these building of relationships between Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy, and then Octavia Spencer's daughter. And I think it just is such a sweet, genuine thing in the middle of what is a very goofy, silly comedy with crazy, silly jokes.

Gen Fricker:

And I feel like it also speaks to the fact that so many people in this movie have a relationship outside of it, for example, Melissa McCarthy's daughter is actually in the film playing the young version of Melissa McCarthy.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh, no way.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And she's great in it.

Gen Fricker:

She's really good. I guess it's pretty cool to have your mom be Melissa McCarthy.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah. Your mom's a real superhero.

Gen Fricker:

One of the most haunting scenes-

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Oh my gosh, I know what you're going to say.

Gen Fricker:

... in this movie is Melissa McCarthy's character-

Alexei Toliopoulos:

When she gets her super strong power?

Gen Fricker:

Yep, chows down on some raw chicken.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

It is so deliciously foul, the way that she eats these big tenderloins of raw, marinated chicken.

Gen Fricker:

Proper like cartoon cat. You know when you see a cartoon cat have a fish and then they pull the fish out and it's just the bones. That's the way she-

Alexei Toliopoulos:

[crosstalk 00:15:32], she's munching on it.

Gen Fricker:

She just inhales it. It is so full on.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, and all I could think was that has to be raw chicken.

Gen Fricker:

She sells it like it's raw chicken, but it's not raw chicken. Apparently it's pears.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

It's pears?

Gen Fricker:

It's pears.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Thinly sliced pears treated with citric acid is what I'm seeing here.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, which sounds delicious.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I would eat that exactly the way that she does.

Gen Fricker:

What? The pears or the chicken?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Not the chicken. I would never eat raw chicken. It's my biggest phobia.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah. I feel like the fact that you can't handle spice, maybe in a way, conceptually, raw chicken is a spice.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Absolutely. It's the spiciest food you could eat because it's the most dangerous.

Gen Fricker:

It is one of the most dangerous. It's still more dangerous than puffer fish, probably. I don't know. She is selling that raw chicken though. You are convinced, and I feel like, again, that just speaks to Melissa McCarthy's awareness of her physicality.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah.

Gen Fricker:

She can make you believe it's real chicken.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Absolutely.

Gen Fricker:

She can make you think that that's funny and not just hugely disgusting.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, the most committed actor in the game, I would say.

Gen Fricker:

100%. Just look at the posters. If you Google Melissa McCarthy movies and you look at the posters, she looks entirely different in every single movie.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, absolutely. Just doing some really wild, big stunty staff. And I think that's part of what this movie really works for me, there is an exciting, comedic supporting cast. And I think that we should talk a little bit about Jason Bateman because I think he's really, really funny in this movie.

Gen Fricker:

He's one of my favourite parts of this movie.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Absolutely.

Gen Fricker:

He plays a miscreant, one of the semi mutant characters, the villains, who is half man, half crab. So basically, how that shows up is that he just had big crab claws, which is so funny to me.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Exactly, and he just plays it with like such aplomb where he's just still that dry Jason Bateman that you love from Arrested Development.

Gen Fricker:

A bit sarcastic, a bit cynical.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yes, and very cynical, and just very matter of fact and sarcastic with everything that he says. There's this one monologue where he talks about how he became half man, half crab, which I think is some of my favourite Jason Bateman comedy in quiet some time.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, I really feel like when people look back at his body of work, they should be paying attention to this performance because it is, it's so silly. And just the way that he embraces the crab physicality is so funny to me, it's so silly. And that's what I love, is that sometimes superhero movies, especially at the moment, are so gritty, so dark, so self-important, and this is just subverting that, and I love that. I don't want to have to know the entire universe of it. The stakes are low sometimes, and they should be.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And that's what we're saying here. If you're a future critic listening to this podcast and you're looking back at Jason Bateman's body of work, I say, why don't you start with the crab claws?

Gen Fricker:

Start with the claws, babe.

Gen Fricker:

And speaking of Jason Bateman as a villain, the henchmen in this movie are so silly. There's one that I know you really loved.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, I really love this one performance, it was a couple really because Ben Falcone has a cameo doing the same kind of thing as one of the henchmen. I think he's really funny in it, and then I also love this comedic actor, David Storrs. He's also in Prank Encounters, and I was like, "I know that guy from somewhere." But he is-

Gen Fricker:

I you a big Prank Encounters dude?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I love prank shows, okay? I will not make it a secret, I love prank shows. Prank Encounters, I've seen every episode thrice, it's a comfort watch.

Gen Fricker:

Wow.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yes, it's a comfort watch. Looking at other people's discomfort is my comfort. And then him in this movie, it's like the first time I've seen henchman interactions since my favourite movie of all the time, Austin Powers, where there's almost a new take on it. And this is him, his name's Andrew, and the whole introduction to this character is like, "Hey, what's your name?" "Andy, Andrew." And just like going through what his name is, and I thought that getting into the banality of personal office interactions between co-workers in this supervillain world, I had not seen that before, but it was very, very funny.

Gen Fricker:

It was very, very funny.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And it was that kind of genre parody that you want from something like this.

Gen Fricker:

Yeah, I was really thinking, like Austin Powers, in the same way that Austin Powers was so loving towards those really camp spy films of the 60s, thunder force is really loving towards those kinds of grittier, existing superhero movies. It's really loving towards the tropes of that. What do you reckon this is closely in spirit to?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Well, I think that if you like this, definitely give Bridesmaids a re-watch, or a watch for the first time, because I think it's got that same kind of energy that Melissa McCarthy brings to something that's so goofy and silly. And whereas this is a genre parody of superhero movies, it does the same kind of thing for romantic comedies. And I think still, that's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen and I re-watch it every year or two.

Gen Fricker:

Melissa McCarthy's performance in Bridesmaids, I think about it a lot, just the way she wears this paper boy hat always, the ill fitting clothes, her commitment to that as well. The scene where she buys too many dogs. It's so silly.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And she was Oscar nominated for it.

Gen Fricker:

Was she really?

Alexei Toliopoulos:

She was.

Gen Fricker:

No.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

I remember it because whenever someone gets an Oscar nomination for a comedic performance, I note it down in a little diary that I keep, and so far, only a couple of pages are fall, but it's something that I need to look back on and it brings me complete joy.

Gen Fricker:

Far out. She's great in it, yeah. I feel like that's the most direct parallel.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Absolutely, and it's worth watching again. It's on Netflix, check it out whenever you want.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Well, the movie that Gen and I have been discussing today on the podcast is Thunder Force. It is available from this weekend on Netflix. Chuck it on with your entire family, including Nan, pop and the other guys.

Gen Fricker:

Get your dog in.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, check it with the dog.

Gen Fricker:

The dog will love it.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Yeah, of course.

Gen Fricker:

And please, if you enjoy The Big Film Buffet, please subscribe on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a nice comment, a little compliment.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

We love a compliment, that's true.

Gen Fricker:

We're very, very needy.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

And if you need a little more of us, you can check us out on Tuesday. We'll be diving into our snack episode. (Singing), and that's me, because I'm out there literally looking for some hot stuff to swallow.

Gen Fricker:

This episode was hosted by Alexei Toliopoulos and me, Gen Fricker.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Produced by Michael Sun and Anu Hasbold.

Gen Fricker:

Edited by Geoffrey O'Connor.

Alexei Toliopoulos:

Executive produced by Tony Broderick and Melanie Mahony.