I Stand With Phoenicia

Although we've had our ups and downs over the years (I still don't love Darjeeling) I've turned into a fairly staunch Wes Anderson defender, and so it's not a massive surprise I liked his latest The Phoenician Scheme even while opinions seem to be fairly mixed -- read my review that dropped over the weekend right here. I do think it's a mid-tier Anderson but as I say in the review that still means more movie magic than 90% of what we see elsewhere. Also this somehow marks his first time working with Michael Cera and even people who are mixed on the movie are like, "Well they're gonna work together again." Our little Canadian weirdo steals the movie, he does. (Except when Riz Ahmed is on-screen because Riz Ahmed is on screen.)

That Thing Johnathon Does

I have two reasons for writing this post. The first reason is I was looking for an excuse to post the above recent photo of noted hunk Johnathon Schaech, and writing this post gave me that excuse. And the second reason is that, as I stated in my previous post, I'm out of sorts today and I'm just trying to get my fingers tap-tap-tapping on the keyboard to get myself into practice -- I have a lot of shit to do this week and my foggy brain ain't helping anything. Now neither of those reasons are what this post is actually technically about, you see...

... what this post is actually technically about is that the soundtrack to the beloved 1996 musical That Thing You Do!, written and directed by Tom Hanks and starring Mr. Schaech alongside Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn, and Ethan Embry as a 1960s boy band, is being put out onto vinyl this week for the very first time! It's coming from Mondo and it goes on sale on Wednesday, click here for all the assorted sordid information. Now here's the kicker -- I have never seen this movie. Isn't that crazy? I should fix that, right? I think at the time I had little interest in Schaech all cleaned up and bubblegum -- I was deep in my Xavier Red fantasies. Looking back now... I was a fool to limit my options. Every flavor of Schaech is welcome. 

Synecdoche By Wes

See? I told you I would pop back in here over the holiday! I didn't lie, for once. Feel free to throw confetti in my face the next time you see me. Anyway I am here, over a holiday, to direct you toward a piece I'm proud of -- for Mashable I wrote about Wes Anderson's telescopically structured Asteroid City, and how that structure helps triple underline its big beating beautiful heart, click here to read it. I really dig this movie in case that's not clear by now -- this is the second piece I wrote about it, including my Pajiba review which you can read here. I hope you've all gone to see it for yourselves by now -- the big screen really is the best way to experience Wes' methodical aesthetic minutiae -- but if you're waiting for home for whatever reason the blu-ray is on sale already, right here. But it's not out until New Years Eve so, you know, prepare to wait.

Viva Wes, Again

Although it's been out in NYC and LA for a week now Wes Anderson's latest Asteroid City is just hitting the broader markets tomorrow, and so I am just sharing my feelings on the movie today. Over at Pajiba, right here. Spoiler alert: I love the fucking movie. I'm a hard yes on Wes though, so your mileage will obviously vary -- I find it inexplicable how divisive his movies are, but then I find so much of the world inexplicable. Find joy in beautiful things, people!

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AKA Riley Keough's Grandmother

I was fairly indifferent to Baz Luhrmann's Elvis movie but I am far far far more interested in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla -- that's the first poster above and apparently we're getting a trailer tomorrow. For one Baz's film didn't have squat to say about the fact that Priscilla was fifteen when she and Elvis met, and a film in 2023 that has no opinion on that matter might as well not exist, no matter how many sequins there are on Austin Butler's swinging dick and no matter how many double-chins they put on Tom Hanks. Sofia Coppola's movie though, obviously she's gonna have things to say. Also... she's Sofia Coppola, and that beats Baz any day of the week. (I mean I love Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge too, but come on.) And third -- even though we can barely see anything in it this poster is reminding me really hard of my great-grandparents house, a 60s time-capsule of baby-blues and lemon-yellows; it smelled like powder and everything was satin-lined. That this single image feels so textured is giving me great hope here. Can't wait for the trailer. 

5 Off My Head: Siri Says 2019

We are indeed still filling in the final few gaps in my "Siri Says" series -- this is where I ask my phone to give me a number between 1 and 100 and then I take that number and I pick my five favorite movies from the year that corresponds. Thing is we left the "Siri" part in the dust awhile back when the remaining numbers got down below fifteen, because waiting for Siri to say a number that hadn't been used before took ages. So now I have the remaining years written on slips of paper and I choose one at random, and yet I still use Siri in the title? Sue me for fraud if you must! Anyway today I chose the number "19" and since there's no chance in all of the depths of hell that I'd have anything to say about the movies of 1919 -- my apologies to Yankee Doodle in Berlin! -- I will be regaling us with my five favorite films from three years ago. (Here is a list of 2019 movies if you need a refresher -- a lot has happened since then!)

And yes I have already posted by five favorite movies of 2019 on the site -- indeed I listed my Top 25 that year! So this will only be interesting if anything has changed, and (drumroll please) I am sorry to tell you the list of movies in my top five has not changed. But wait! The movies themselves have maybe not changed, but (drumroll please) the order of them has a little! Chaos! Sanctus! Dominus! Sanctus! Dominus! Dogs sleeping with cats et cetera! Okay maybe not but whatcha gonna do, we got a space to fill. And I do think it's a little interesting to see what's shifted in three years time's estimation. No? Well without further dreadful ado I give you...

My 5 Favorite Movies of 2019

5. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

(dir. Marielle Heller)

-- released on November 22nd 2019 --

4. Midsommar

(dir. Ari Aster)

-- released on July 3rd 2019 --

3. The Last Black Man in San Francisco

(dir. Joe Talbot)

-- released on June 7th 2019 --

2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

(dir. Céline Sciamma)

-- released on December 6th 2019 --

1. The Lighthouse

(dir. Robert Eggers)

-- released on November 1st 2019 --

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Runners-up: In Fabric (dir. Peter Strickland), Sorry Angel (dir. Christophe Honoré), Little Women (dir. Greta Gerwig), Knife+Heart (dir. Yan Gonzalez), End of the Century (dir. Lucio Castro), Peterloo (dir. Mike Leigh)...

... The Nightingale (dir. Jennifer Kent), Pain and Glory (dir. Pedro Almodóvar), Invisible Life (dir. Karim Ainouz), Transit (dir. Christian Petzold), Us (dir. Jordan Peele), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino)

What are your favorite movies of 2019?

Don't Fear the Fred

A fresh obsession in my household is the actor Fred Hechinger, who's had a big few months popping up unexpectedly in front of me with Joe Wright's (rightly-excoriated) The Woman in the Window, Steven Soderbergh's Let Them All Talk, an episode of Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad, Paul Greengrass' forgotten Oscar-contender film News of the World, the Tribeca film Italian Studies (which I reviewed right here), and finally the biggest ongoing two-fer real reason for this post -- the Fear Street horror trilogy on Netflix and Mike White's HBO series The White Lotus (which I wrote about over here). This is an astonishing run, y'all -- most of us only saw him for the first time in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade just three years back...

... and now he's everywhere! And I'm great with that! Most of those roles I just rattled off were small but those last two especially, Lotus and Fear Street, have proven him a delight. He played such a fun weirdo in Fear Street: 1994, far and away my favorite thing going on in it, and in Mike White's hands he's... well he's also a fun weirdo there but the performance is dialed down and surprisingly introspective, and I found his whole arc, without getting spoilery, pretty moving. 

Anyway he is very much somebody we should all be keeping our eyes on, and learn his name if you don't know it already. He's good stuff! In related news here's the trailer for the final part of the Fear Street Trilogy, subtitled 1666, which premieres on Netflix this Friday. Have y'all been watching these movies? I think they're a lot of fun -- don't take them seriously, just enjoy the ride. 

A Luke Evans Reminder

Luke Evans' mustache and bicep would like to remind you that the second season of their show The Alienist is hitting blu-ray today -- see my previous post about exactly this same thing, but written a couple of weeks ago, right here. I was going to ask if we thought the stache was for business or pleasure but IMDb says he is filming his role as "The Coachman" in Robert Zemeckis' upcoming live-action Pinocchio movie and I could see a stache going with that, couldn't you? I don't know why he'd have to be so shredded for a Pinocchio movie but my guess is that's the part that's for pleasure. Anyway I didn't even realize that Zemeckis was already filming this -- I'm sad we're not getting the Guillermo Del Toro version; he seemed better suited to the creepy material. Zemeckis will probably make it creepy for all the wrong reasons a la his Polar Express movie (which also starred Tom Hanks, who's playing Geppetto this time). 

Judging Jost

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During the Oscars on Sunday night Tom Hanks took what I assume (given it's Tom Hanks we're talking about here) was a good natured snipe at SNL head-writer and Scar-Jo arm-candy Colin Jost, comparing him unfavorably to the movie star Brad Pitt. Naturally I had to turn this into one of my "Which is Hotter?" polls, and you can vote on it over at The Film Experience. I think it's kind of funny how angry people are in the comments -- they really don't like Colin Jost! I waffle in both directions on him but I have to admit I was intrigued when these photos of him surfing showed up online...

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Hold Your Loved Ones Close This Holiday

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This is a very short week! I didn't get everything done this very short week that I wanted to, including writing a proper review of Knives Out, which is out in theaters today and which I can't seem to summon more to say about than just "It's a ton of fun, you should see it!" I mean that. I do, and you should. It's just 1) a movie it's hard to write about because it's an endless series of twists that even just talking about the twists existing feels spoilery, and 2) it's fluff I will eventually watch ten times but doesn't really inspire a lot in the terms of words out of me.

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Oh man I never get swag, what a treat! I am 100 percent gonna cherish every bit of this KNIVES OUT paraphernalia (most especially that flask) #knivesout #film pic.twitter.com/W5gIDppfQl

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 20, 2019

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It's a terrific Movie Movie, full of movie stars having fun and clever misdirections and fun sets and costumes, but I don't really know what to say about it beyond that. I mean that, by the way, is plenty. All of those things add up to plenty! But I can't say I feel particularly passionate about Knives Out -- the thing that's most noticeable about it I guess is that it feels so Old Fashioned now, an original story coming from a big studio on a holiday weekend that's full of fresh characters and good actors, so that should be the thing that gets your ass to the theater for it. You won't be disappointed. 

Spectacularly moved? Probably not. For that you should still check out Marielle Heller's Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood if you haven't already, which didn't do great at the box office when it was released over this past weekend but will presumably still be in a ton of theaters this week for the holiday. I reviewed that right here and yes that is the sort of movie that will get me rambling endlessly. One of the year's absolute best.

Your other best options are Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, which just hit Netflix (read my NYFF review at The Film Experience) and I'll also recommend, if you're in New York, the Guatemalan flick Temblores, which is about a closeted gay man whose ultra-religious family refuses to let him find happiness. It's opening at the Quad (and PS its gorgeous lead actor Juan Pablo Olyslager will be there for Q&As) and the film's a rough sit emotionally but worth checking out for what feels like an honest view of the uphill battle we still face in many places. (Including here in the US for too many!) It's some perfect anti-Thanksgiving programming -- family can truly suck.

The other two films out this weekend, The Two Popes (reviewed here) and Queen & Slim (reviewed here), I wasn't nuts about them to put it mildly, but other people seem to be so who knows where you'll fall. If you see any of these, or anything else worth telling me about, let me know your thoughts in the comments! And have a Happy Thanksgiving, go get good and stuffed...
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This Thanksgiving I am thankful for one thing, and that thing is Michelle Pfeiffer's Instagram account pic.twitter.com/2itScrCgv8

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 27, 2019

Beautiful Groff in the Dark Frozen Neighborhood

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It's Friday and that means there are new movies out, and for a nice change of pace it looks like not only have I seen the three biggest titles coming out but I have actually reviewed all three! Sometimes one of those things happens, but usually it's neither, and here we are with the suns and the stars all aligning -- you know what this means right? We're all gonna die. On that note here are links to said reviews so I can fulfill the prophecy and we can all be free of this damned mortal bullshit.

Click here for my thoughts on Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tom Hanks, aka the only one of these three I very much recommend.

Click here for my thoughts on Disney's Frozen sequel.

And click here for my thoughts on Todd Haynes' 

Dark Waters starring birthday boy Mark Ruffalo.

Have a beautiful weekend, everyone...

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Charlie Kaufman is Releasing a Book

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I just saw somebody talking about making a "Best Movies of the Decade" list and my first thought was Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche New York, and my second thought was oh wait that's a 2008 movie, and then my third thought was well it's still the best movie, of any decade. Weirdly that movie popped up repeatedly in my head while watching of all things Marielle Heller's Mr. Rogers movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood last night -- which I just reviewed here -- because there's a passage of dialogue from it that I've quoted here on this site several times and which seemed apt in context; here's a choice bit that was already echoing in my head today:

"And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own."

Anyway I was thinking all of that when whose name should immediately pop up before me in the news but Charlie Kaufman himself -- there's a scene in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood where that happens with the lead character; he is thinking about Mr. Rogers and Mr. Rogers appears and leads him to Mr. Rogers. So basically I'm thinking I need to re-watch Synecdoche for the thousandth time tonight, is my point. The fates demand.

To get to the actual news of it, Charlie Kaufman is indeed writing a book -- it's called Antkind and it's going to be published in May 202 and you can pre-order it right here right this second, as I have already done. Here's how it is described, and if you've seen Synecdoche you'll see the connection:

"Antkind centers on a failed film critic named B. Rosenberg who stumbles upon what may be the greatest artistic achievement in human history: a 3-month-long film, complete with scheduled sleeping, eating, and bathroom breaks, that took its reclusive auteur 90 years to complete. As Random House teases in the synopsis: “B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving just a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that might just be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter.”

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The Land of Make Me Believe in Something

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"I'm broken." 

Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) speaks those words to Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks), better known by his honorific, in one of their earliest conversations -- conversations that initialize as Lloyd interviewing Fred for a magazine piece but which quickly tumble into the latter plumbing the depths of the former's soul with no muss. Mr. Rogers looks at him, really looks at him, and it's like all the noise in all of the world fades away -- all there is is one person listening, really listening and caring about what he will hear, to another. The world's profoundest gift, that.

Fred was full of them, gifts I mean, but that was the biggie, and director Marielle Heller knows it and shows it, a storytelling sleight of hand that situates us in that seat across from that astonishing man, magically waving away everything else -- you really will feel like you're sitting there being listened to, being appreciated and loved, and man it's a kick in the pants in this world of ours to feel that coming at you. What a goddamned gift, this movie is.

Lloyd says, "I'm broken," and Mr. Rogers tells him he is not broken. He says that Lloyd is just a person who feels, who knows, what is right and what is wrong. The feelings of aggrievance just get the better of us -- the world is supposed to work one way, yet it rarely if ever does. Finding ways to manage that, to accept the flaws and imperfections, even the ones that have left dark marks on us, takes effort and practice and banging on the piano keys. It takes silence, and pause, and patience.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood slows its world to a crawl, and closes itself up into itself -- there could be twenty people in the cardboard world for Heller's purposes here and you, me and you, are among them. It's an airtight little fable of fingers linked in a gesture of friendship, one to one to one and on and on and on forever. Start small, with whomever is standing in front of you, and work from there. Revolutions, ones that matter in the long run, can really start with small gestures, interpersonal kindnesses -- just a full sixty seconds of silence in a busy restaurant gifting you with good thoughts.

I'm broken. That's, you know, me talking now. My mantra and prayer and my excuse for a static emotional landscape -- I repeat that to myself whenever things start hurting, allow it provenance over any actual self-examination. I'm a million jagged pieces and I don't know how to put anything anywhere. I would watch the movie about a man trying to forgive his ailing father while my own estranged father lays in a hospital bed somewhere, somewhere I can't bring myself to be. I don't know what to do with that, but it's there, like a howling wind in my head every single day. We are made of the good and the bad, built up on everything incongruous piece after piece after piece.

How do we forgive? When do we forgive? What is forgiveness? Is it for us, for them -- is there even a difference? And is there any set of questions any more human than these? Every relationship asks this of us, and as we grow older it only weaves and knots itself more thoroughly through every piece of our being and lives. Sometimes it seems as if every moment is itself forgiveness -- a breath, a pause, a step forward asking, begging, for the right to just keep going that way without the cacophony and weight of everything on our back ripping us down through the floorboards, into the dust and dirt.

Lloyd's wife reads the article he hands her and she tells him what he's come up with isn't even about Mr. Rogers, except it is -- I know her feeling. If you can find a way to disassociate this man and what he stands for from what you feel when you close your eyes and think upon your life bully for ya, but I can't. I was no doubt watching Mister Rogers Neighborhood on those afternoons when my father wasn't coming to pick me up for our bi-weekly visitations -- when the scars I scratch my fingers on today were first singed upon me. This movie, immediately and with great warmth, feels like it's a piece of my life -- a salve on those wounds, yes. But more. A way past.

It's a Beautiful Day...

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No, you're the one crying at the trailer for the Mr. Rogers movie! Okay okay fine it's me, it's me, I'm crying at the Mr. Rogers movie trailer. But maybe you will prove yourself not at all the heartless cretin I think of you as, and you will be crying too after watching it below. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is the new flick from Marielle Heller, two astonishing films (Diary of a Teenage Girl and Can You Ever Forgive Me?) at her back, and of course stars Tom Hanks (who else) as Fred Rogers American Hero, and also Matthew Rhys as a journalist who's covering the man who made the land of make-believe so very real.

Actually really as we were clued in by Heller herself at a talk at this past spring's Tribeca Film Festival the movie is much more about Rhys' character, which is probably smart -- you need a protagonist with an arc, some foundering, and Mr. Rogers, for all his wonder, was wondrous because of his steadfast lifelong decency. That's good for mankind but not so good for storytelling. Anyway this movie ranked as one of my most anticipated for the rest of the year, and here's that trailer...

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ABDITN is out at Thanksgiving time, just in time to finally 

get Marielle Heller her goddamned overdue Oscar nomination.

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And That's All I Have To Say About That

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Beloved fella Tom Hanks is turning 62 today and in his honor I'm digging into Forrest Gump with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" over at The Film Experience - head on over to vote. I defend the movie a little, even though I'm fully aware of all its problems and how directly those problems, and the mindset they represent, can be traced alongside our current political predicament. It's sticky business but at the end of the day it is just a movie, and there's good stuff in there too alongside all the questionable, and liking that isn't a one-to-one ratio with being a shitty person. I'm glad the movie's gotten called out, and I will call its shit out, but I'm still gonna watch it whenever it's on TV and cry, dammit.

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Good Morning, World

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I've never even seen the 1985 caper comedy The Man with One Red Shoe, which stars Tom Hanks as a dude who gets randomly caught up in CIA shenanigans - I am supposing that they meant to riff on Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much with that title and with the innocent man ensnared and over his head theme? Anyway I used the movie for yesterday's "Five Frames" post...

... and as I skimmed through it looking for frames I saw this scene (with Carrie Fisher!) and remembered how adorable I found Tom Hanks back in the 80s and here we are. Hanks made this movie right after Splash and Bachelor Party and right before The Money Pit - I have a soft spot for Goofy Early Hanks; all of these movies have their charms. So should I bother watching this one? Anybody remember it?

A Hologram Grows in Tribeca

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Last week we got very very excited when the first half of the Tribeca Film Festival was announced and they're screening High-Rise, Ben Wheatly's super-anticipated new flick with Tom Hiddleston (and Little Tom Hiddleston), and today they announced the second half of their line-up and wham, another super-duper's striking me square in the face: Tom Tykwer's new film A Hologram For the King, starring Tom Hanks and Ben Whishaw, is having its world premiere at the fest! See our previous post on the movie here; it's based on a Dave Eggers book, and will mark Tykwer's first solo film since his good-time ménage à trois romp called 3 back in 2010 (he co-directed Cloud Atlas with the Wachowskis).

Anyway the Playlist shares the full list of new Tribeca titles right here - there are a couple horror films showing in the fest's Midnight section; the anthology called Holidays could be fun...

... and they're showing that James Franco gay porn murder joint) but I feel as if they've been tightening up that portion of the festival over the past couple of years? The plethora of genre flicks showing was one of the things that made TFF stand apar, at least as of a couple of years ago, but the selection's begun to seem semi-anemic. I suppose that means I can see them all this time around, at least.

The other film that I'm most enthuastic about that was announced is Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back, a documentary about one of my favorite artists. Any fans of his work? He's crazy (very crazy) good.

6 Off My Head - Legends of the Fall Fest Season

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The New York Film Festival has announced its Main Slate today, and while this isn't everything they'll be showing -- they will still announce the smaller docs and so forth -- it is EVERYTHING, if you catch my drift. You can read the whole list over at The Playlist, but I figured I'd focus in on the five... no make that six movies that are making this everything so much of my everything everything. 

Carol by Todd Haynes -- Yeah, duh. I've only been posting about wanting to see this movie since 2006 when I first read Patricia Highsmith's book The Price of Salt -- in fact I said in that 2006 post that the character of Carol should be played by Cate Blanchett, a full six years before Cate Blanchett singed on to play the part of Carol. CLEARLY this happened because of me. You are all welcome!

Bridge of Spies by Steven Spielberg -- I really wasn't all that bowled over by the trailer for this movie and I'm not the world's biggest fan of Tom Hanks or spy movies in general, so why do I care? I care because I have spent YEARS of my life waiting to be in a room with Steven Spielberg and I somehow MISSED him when he presented Lincoln at NYFF a couple of years ago and this is my chance and I will not mess it up this time dammit! He and I will ride on the backs of velociraptors into the sunset!

The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos -- Yanthimos' two previous films Dogtooth and Alps both made my favorite movie lists for their respective years, and this time's he's speaking English and putting Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in front of me in a nonsense story about people being transformed into animals - what, you think I'm rubber? I am glue and The Lobster is stuck to me, yo.

The Assassin by Hou Hsiao-hsien -- The only movie of Hou's that I have seen is Flight of the Red Balloon (the power of La Binoche compels me) and I know I've got to right that, so why not start with this rapturously received wuxia starring the rapturously gorgeous Chang Chen?

Steve Jobs by Danny Boyle -- Honestly I could give a shit about Steve Jobs as a person, and Aaron Sorkin gives me hives, but the trailer was really exciting and... well. You know. Fassy. FASSSSSSSSSSSY. And if Kate Winslet shows up on the red carpet and stands in front of me I promise you I will poop my pants. I promise it. (Sorry, Kate.) (Sorry, everybody else.)

Microbe & Gasoline by Michel Gondry -- It's been a rough couple of years for me and my Gondry adoration (I was nearly done in by getting stuck on that bus with those insufferable brats in The We and the I) but I hold out hope, every time, I can't help it - this man made Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, people. Show some goddamned respect.
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Tom Hanks, Big Dog

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As I mentioned this morning when we ogled him in his underpants it's the 25th anniversary of the probably terrible (I haven't seen it in forever and my 11 year old self is not to be trusted) Tom Hanks comedy Turner & Hooch today and I promised even more celebratory items - here they be: head over to The Film Experience where we're putting the man and his dog in a head-to-head for today's edition of Beauty Vs Beast. It's a thing, a thing to do.

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Good Morning, World

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Anybody else have incredibly vivid memories of Tom Hanks spending a lot of time in Turner & Hooch in his little black briefs? I certainly do. That was a highlight of my childhood. I wish I could've found a better quality clip but we'll take...
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... what we can, I suppose. Today is the 25th anniversary of this movie, which is just making me feel so old I'm about to head over to Amazon to order a walker and some some Metamucil for myself. A Ben-Gay smoothie! Eww, "Ben-Gay Smoothie" totally needs to be a euphemism for a sex-act between old people.Well I certainly have gotten off track here haven't I? Hmm. Well we'll have more on this in a little bit anyway. Yes, more on Turner & Hooch. I clearly woke up on the side of crazy-town this morning, it's true.