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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Nope + Adnan's Vacation Observations

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Nope. Adnan and Chris recap their vacations. Chris can’t believe Adnan doesn’t book his hotels before family vacations. Is it alarming when a hotel front desk employee recognizes you? Adnan found his tour of Fort Sumter so moving he decided to do Glory as this week's old movie. Adnan is joined by author, Dennis Lehane whose novels have inspired the movies Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island, Live By Night, and currently, Apple TV's Black Bird. A tribute to Tim Kurkjian. RIP Paul Sorvino. Wade Boggs is a look right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.9

Nope is a good example of how film turns out when a lauded director proves too fond of

0:51.4

his own florescence to trim the fat, to worry about whether his ideas cohere or to respect

0:56.7

the dramatic imperatives of the form in which he is working. Love the review, Kyle Smith

1:01.1

of Wall Street Journal. He's talking about no brand new film from Jordan Peale, a huge

1:06.0

one. I think it opened at 44 million of the box office and their massive opening for

1:09.6

the director of Get Out. That is our new movie this week. Our old movie, I'll be talking

1:13.5

a lot of it, my trip to South Carolina and in particular Fort Sumter. And so inspired

1:18.3

by that, I was so pumped as I was looking at Fort Sumter, I saw something about the 54th

1:22.7

Regiment. I know the 54th Regiment, that's a story of glory. And I asked one of the tourgats,

1:26.5

I go, wait, this is about this. He's like one mile north, point eight miles, be specific,

1:31.4

is Fort Wagner, which is the ending of glory. So obviously there's actually a monument,

1:35.3

there's nothing there, commemorating that. But yes, you're in the same area as that,

1:38.6

it's like, oh perfect. I got my old movie now for this week. Glory, starting Denzel

1:42.5

Washington, which he won his first Academy Award, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, and so

1:46.9

on and so forth. And as far as our wild car is concerned, Dennis Lahane, you know if

1:51.1

you're a fan of movies, that his name is synonymous with a lot of films being adapted

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