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Episode 246: 'On the Count of Three' is a Tonal Balancing Act

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Ify Nwadiwe, Film, News, Reviews, Comedy, Diverse, Twitter, Woke, Queer, Drea Clark, Film Reviews, Criticism, Movies, Tv & Film, Alonso Duralde

4.7932 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Carlos Aguilar joins us to talk about Jerrod Carmichael’s darkly comedic directorial debut.

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0:00.0

Today we are cancelling the apocalypse.

0:04.0

I gotta get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and sparkle,

0:06.0

me at least sparkle.

0:07.0

I know what some of your big city no bra wear and hairy-legged women livers might say.

0:11.0

Hello everyone and welcome to maximum film it's episode 246 and I'm back on the

0:19.0

sticks playing video games that is yeah yeah it yeah, it shows if you wadi way

0:23.6

and it's the booth with me are my friends.

0:26.7

So let me introduce you today.

0:27.9

First up is the Christmas daddy himself,

0:30.3

superstar critic.

0:31.3

Alonso Geraldo day, what's good?

0:33.0

Well, ify, I'm going to be parsing through what on the sticks means for a while, I guess.

0:38.0

But what's good with me is that I have officially been dubbed an LGBTQ plus media elite because that was an

0:47.3

email that I got from Universal that apparently I was part of a select group of people who had an early peak at the red band trailer for the Billy Eichner

0:56.8

Rom Com Bros which Universal is putting out this fall and I have to say like I never want to get too excited about a trailer. We've all been misled in that direction before. I mean we've seen great trailers for shitty movies and shitty trailers for great movies.

1:12.8

But this is a really funny trailer and it is like very unapologetically queer in a sexy way which

1:19.2

is astonishing, especially since this is the first sort of major studio queer movie, you know, we have

1:24.9

Fire Island around the corner, which is a searchlight film that's going to be premiering on Hulu,

1:28.5

but this is like, universal, not focus, universal is putting this thing out and you know a lot of a lot of great

1:35.4

folks are in it a terrific like heavily stacked cast an entirely queer cast even

1:41.2

playing the straight roles so you know I am I am tentatively

1:45.9

excited because you know again trailers can't put too much investment in them but I'm

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