As I expected, Mary Poppins practically perfect in every way.

Hello and welcome once again to The Sinophiles where each week we enter the world of a great

film, explore its themes, the history, the filmmaking and the influence it has on us today.

My name is Steve Morris and I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.

Hello, one, my name is John Roke, I'm a writer, producer and host.

And

lover of old school Disney movies.

So excited to be diving into this movie with you, Steve Morris and I'm in San Diego, California.

I'm excited to and before we get into this film, we have some business to attend to, which is in our

last episodes on first blood. We said that the next person to write us a five star review,

we will read their review on the air and we have that and that person is Brandon Hopkins who

writes, gentlemen, the best deep dive podcast by far online been following you all for years and

the show just keeps getting better. Thank you both for all the time and effort you both put in,

keep up the great work, all the best for my fellow Sinophiles. Thank you, Brandon, very kind of

you. Thank you very much, Brandon. And you know what? Maybe this will be a tradition if we get

some particularly exciting reviews. You too could hear your review on the air. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That is a very enthusiastic agreement from my partner.

And of course, those of you who are members of our Patreon, you know, it's great to hear from

you all when we do our weekly or monthly advisory meetings and council meetings, which we've had

a couple of already to hear your thoughts on our show and how how much it's affected you,

but also the ways to possibly improve it or ways to or movies for us to take a look at in one of

those movies is what we're going to be tackling today. And if you guys want to, you know, kind of

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