"Song Sung Blue"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For this week's second podcast review, Ema Sasic and Dan Bayer join me to discuss the latest film from Craig Brewer, "Song Sung Blue" starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushi, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, Hudson Hensley & John Beckwith. Based on the 2008 documentary film of the same name by Greg Kohs, the film follows Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as Mike and Claire Sardina, who performed as the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder before their lives took an unexpected turn for the worse. The film premiered at the 2025 AFI Festival to positive reviews, but what did we think of it? Please tune in as we discuss the performances, the tone, music, story, craftsmanship, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Sog Suggs.
0:05.6	I'm not a songwriter. I'm not a sex symbol. I just want to entertain people.
0:10.2	I don't want to be a hairdresser. I want to sing. I want to dance. I want a garden. I want a cat.
0:14.3	I need something big. I need something new. What do you think? You don't want to be a Neil Diamond
0:19.8	impersonator. You want to be a Neil Diamond impersonator.
0:21.6	You want to be a Neil Diamond interpreter.
0:23.6	I was looking for the right way to say it and you just came right out and said...
0:27.6	Tell your mama, girl, we can't stay long.
0:32.6	We should call ourselves Lightning and Thunder.
0:35.6	We got things we gotta catch up on.
0:38.3	So you be lightning and I be thunder.
0:41.3	Uh, yeah.
0:43.3	You?
0:45.3	Mmm.
0:49.3	That is not very professional of me, but I've been wanting to do it for like a whole...
0:55.0	You really have to call him Lightning.
1:00.0	It's kind of weird.
1:01.0	He makes it.
1:02.0	Okay.
1:03.0	My dad in Vietnam, sometimes he'd have to crawl over dead bodies.
1:08.0	So yeah, he used to drink.
1:10.0	I could really use for you to tell me I'm doing the right thing.
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