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Episode 378: “Gladiator II” with Kevin Avery

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4.7924 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We are looking at 2024’s Gladiator II, a sequel to the original 2000 film, also directed by Ridley Scott. It stars Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, and Connie Nielsen. Plus we look at the Top Turkeys of 2024 and our favorite Legacy Sequels. Writer and comedian, Kevin Avery (The Great North, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver), joins us.

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0:00.0

You also don't care about feminism.

0:03.7

Your favorite show is Entourage.

0:05.0

To be honest, when I found out that patriarchy wasn't about horses, I had lost interest anyway.

0:10.0

I wonder if I know what you mean.

0:12.9

I wonder if you wonder.

0:16.6

Hello, everyone and welcome to Maximum Film.

0:19.0

It's episode 378, and you know what?

0:22.9

It's time to take back Rome, and something that rhymes with eight.

0:28.1

It's your host, Ifi Wadi Wade and in the booth with me on my friends, so let me introduce

0:31.8

you to them.

0:32.4

First up and foremost, we have the Crispin Zetti at full power, esteemed critic, author, Alonzo Dorelde,

0:39.1

what's good?

0:40.2

Oh, well, I'll tell you, if he, what's good is, there's a book that came out recently

0:45.8

that I really wanted to recommend that I think folks would want to be maybe thinking about,

0:50.8

you know, putting under the tree of loved ones or, you know, just keeping it for themselves. And obviously not just my own book that I've been flogging mercilessly all

0:58.2

year. I'm talking about Frank DeCaro's new book, Disco, subtitled Music, Movies and Mania Under

1:04.9

the Disco Ball. This is a gorgeous, like, it's an actual Ritzoli book. So you know, tons of photos. There's a lot of great

1:13.4

copy here because, you know, they could have gone, look, you could go the coffee table route with,

1:18.1

you know, pictures of Bianca Jagger staggering out of Studio 54 and whatever else. But no, no,

1:22.9

no, they went the extra mile and they got Frank DeKaro, who is a brilliant cultural observer.

1:29.6

His drag book from a couple years ago was really great.

1:30.7

I recommend that one too.

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