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Hey, everybody, welcome back to The Bullwork. For a show, we're definitely not calling

the Bullwork version of the rewatchables. That's not, that's, we're definitely not calling

at that at all. It's, it's friends. We're getting together to talk about movies that are a little

bit older sometimes that we've all seen and enjoyed and we think other

people have watched and enjoyed that we're we're we're we're watching for not the first time

as I like to put it maybe the watch movie club bull work movie club full work full work movie club

but I'm I'm really happy to be joined by Sarah because Sarah's always like I want to talk

about movies and I'm like I would also like to talk about movies and so I'm really happy to be joined by Sarah because Sarah is always like, I want to talk about movies.

And I'm like, I would also like to talk about movies. And so I'm glad to get Sarah on. I talk with JBL about movies all the time. But this is, it's also, it's also fun to have JBL here. Today we're talking about the Death of Stalin, which is available on Hulu. If you have Hulu, a lot of people have Hulu. It's integrated with Disney Plus now.

You might want to check on those parental settings on Disney Plus.

A lot of people have Hulu. It's integrated with Disney Plus now. You might want to check on those parental settings on Disney Plus. A lot of movies are popping up in my Disney Plus feed that I'm like, oh, my kids don't need to watch strange days, actually. That would probably be bad for their development. But it's on Hulu. And it's, you can rent it on Amazon if you don't have Hulu. But it's, it's great. It's from Armando Ian Nucci, who, of course, folks will remember from VEP. I think American audiences will best know him from VEP. He also made In the Loop and some other stuff. In the loop. Oh, so good.

But Veepe is great. You're a Veepe fan, right, Sarah? You're... Yeah, I'm a Veepe and In The Loop. And you know what? I had not... I saw this movie when it came out, and I had not rewatched it before. What a treat. What a treat to do. I'm so glad we picked this one because it is so fun. It's so fun. I joke the other day about Naked Gun being an English teacher movie because it like has a lot of jokes that only really work on the page.

And these, this movie has jokes that work both on the page and off the page. Like it's hard to imagine. I can now not imagine Nikita Khrushchev as anybody except Steve Bouchemey. Like that is, he is now Steve Bouchemey to me. Cruz Chab Hardest hit by that. But Chris Jeff really takes it on the chin here. Interesting evolution of the character throughout the movie. We'll get to that in a second, though. So, you know, it's interesting, though, to think about the difference between this and Veep, right?

Because VEP ran into this problem in the mid-2010s where a lot of people were trying to figure, they were trying to figure out the politics of it. They were like, what's the, what is Selena Meyer? Selina Meyer, a Democrat, she's a Republican. Is she like a, she one of those lady Republicans who is pro-choice, but, you know, she gets into the Veepea slot or she's just a straightforward Democrat. And one of the nice things about that, Stalin, is that you don't, you don't have that issue, really, with the distance of history, the distance of country, you don't have, You don't have people arguing about that sort of thing.

With this, you can just look at it on a broader, like, more general level,

which then I think helps people bring it back to the current moment better.

Right?

Like I was watching this movie and I kept thinking like, oh, that seems familiar. Oh, that sure seems familiar.

Well, you know what? I thought you were just about to say, I thought you were going to say Veep ran into trouble because the world started to be as stupid as the show.

And it became like our politics. There's no room for parodying the politics of Washington like Veep does when the politics of Washington looks just like Veep.

Because then it's not a parody. It's a documentary.

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