#890: Top 5 Movie Queens / The Woman King / Moonage Daydream

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in the news and Her Majesty Viola Davis currently on screens in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s THE WOMAN KING, Adam and Josh devote this week’s Top 5 to a consideration of movie monarchs. Making the cut: film royalty like Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn and a certain teen queen who wants us all to eat cake. That Top 5, plus reviews of “The Woman King” and the trippy new Bowie doc “Moonage Daydream.” 0:00 - Billboard 1:08 - Top 5 Movie Queens 32:33 - Review (AK): “Moonage Daydream” 40:41 - Next Week / Notes 48:14 - Massacre Theatre 53:09 - Review: “The Woman King” 1:03:29 - Top 5 Movie Queens, cont 53:09 - Review: “The Woman King” 1:21:12 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What kind of a show you guys put on here today?
0:06.4	You're not interested in art?
0:07.6	No.
0:08.1	Well, look, we're going to do this thing.
0:09.4	We're going to have a conversation.
0:13.0	From Chicago, this is film Spodding.
0:15.0	I'm Josh Larson.
0:16.1	And I'm Adam Kempinar.
0:17.6	And Yvulis Komi.
0:21.0	That threatens our kingdom.
0:25.5	Our freedom.
0:27.0	But we have a weapon.
0:34.5	They are not prepared for.
0:38.5	It doesn't seem right to start a show devoted to movie Queens
0:41.5	with the voice of a king.
0:42.5	But so it goes.
0:44.0	John Boyega there as King Gezzo in the trailer for The Woman King,
0:48.0	which has Viola Davis leading a battalion of woman warriors
0:51.5	in 19th century West Africa.
0:53.5	We'll have some thoughts on the Gina Prince
0:56.0	by the way, historical epic plus yes, our top five movie Queens.
1:00.5	That more I had on film spotting.
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