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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Beno. I love Richard E. Grant.

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Speaker 1: He is the best as a treasure with n and

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Speaker 1: that's alliloquy, which I had to watch one hundred and

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Speaker 1: ten times. Yeah, absolute icon. He's fantastic in this. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I am so glad they made this movie.

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Speaker 1: For too long we've looked at unicorns as this ultimate

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Speaker 1: symbol of cuteness and magic and whimsy. Yeah, rainbows, yeah,

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Speaker 1: my little ponies, all this stuff. Sick of it, I'm

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Speaker 1: so sick of it. So I'm glad finally someone is

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Speaker 1: telling the truth about unicorns, that they're actually murderous beasts

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Speaker 1: that want to evil, that want to evil, and they

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Speaker 1: want to kill humans in the most brutal fashion exactly,

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Speaker 1: and they're not afraid. It's not just decoration. What animal

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Speaker 1: doesn't use the horn to defend itself with the fight,

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Speaker 1: it's unicorns apparently use it for magic. What the heck?

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Speaker 1: You can make a wish that doesn't make any sense really,

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Speaker 1: So first time director Alex Shauffman has made this movie

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Speaker 1: with the Studio A twenty four, which is is this

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Speaker 1: indie filmmaking house that is you know, so beloved with

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Speaker 1: with movie fans around the world. Basically, it's one of

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Speaker 1: the only studios where if you slap the A twenty

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I don't know, I don't know anybody about,

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Speaker 1: I don't know anybody in it, I don't know any director,

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Speaker 1: but I'll still go and see it because I trust

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Speaker 1: A twenty four. That's how kind of prestigious that brand is,

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Speaker 1: and so they're probably the only studio that could make

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Speaker 1: this movie with the first time director. It's basically inspired

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Speaker 1: by medieval tapestries about hunting a unicorn that hang up

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Speaker 1: in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Yep, yeah, yep,

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Speaker 1: and what happens and all of this kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: mythology around unicorns. It's so half inspired by that and

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Speaker 1: half inspired by the Sackler family, who, you know, if

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Speaker 1: of Purdue Farmer, who the you know, sort of chief

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Speaker 1: creators of oxy content, Opioid Crisis, A TV series like

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Speaker 1: Dope Sick about the Sackler family. So you can kind

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Speaker 1: of figure out in your brain how those two things

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Speaker 1: go together. You're basically where this movie is at. So

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Speaker 1: you've got Paul Rudd and the Great Jenna or Tago

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Speaker 1: so hot right now. They are a daddy daughter duo,

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Speaker 1: a little bit estranged after the death of Paul Rudd's

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Speaker 1: wife in the film at General or Tager's mum, and

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Speaker 1: they decide to reconnect by going on this work trip

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Speaker 1: the Leopolds, this family who owns a pharmaceutical company, have

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Speaker 1: the way, they pass through this kind of like special

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Speaker 1: nature reserve that's been set up by the Leopold family,

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Speaker 1: and he's not paying attention to where he's driving. Hits

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Speaker 1: an animal. Turns out juvenile unicorn. No, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a world where no one believes in unicorns.

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Speaker 1: So it comes as a legitimate shock to the two

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Speaker 1: They almost don't want to admit what it is. They're

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Speaker 1: Otager's characters like, come on, let's just call a spader

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Speaker 1: so they don't know what to do. The animal's kind

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Speaker 1: Leopold's mansion. When they're there, they discover that this road

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Speaker 1: Rudd's characters sort of, you know, short sightedness is cured,

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Speaker 1: Richard E. Grant plays the patriarch of the Leopold family,

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Speaker 1: Odell Leopold. He has terminal cancer. He tries to take

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Speaker 1: No Will Poulter, who is also another ross who's who's

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Speaker 1: He thinks, you know, maybe there's a recreational party drug.

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Speaker 1: He crushes up a little bit of the horn and

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Speaker 1: snorts that he has a great time. So they quickly

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Speaker 1: realize that, you know, every part of the unicorn knows

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Speaker 1: to tail is you know, potentially this billion dollar pharmaceutical product.

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Speaker 1: So they truck in some scientists. They start doing experiments.

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Speaker 1: and unicorns in according to this movie, not so cuddly

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Speaker 1: as you might remember, probably more like something out of Alien.

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Speaker 1: They are terrified it doesn't happen, and so then from

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Speaker 1: there it turns into extremely gory movie where everybody in

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Speaker 1: the film, which includes Tea Leoni she's in it as well, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, just gets sort of picked off one by

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Speaker 1: Richardy Grant very very good, Jenna will take a very

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Speaker 1: good Will Poulter as kind of the spoil rich Nepo

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Speaker 1: Baby is amazing. Paul Rudd is not so fantastic in

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Speaker 1: this film. He's okay, but that that relationship, that dynamic

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Speaker 1: between him and his daughter played by General Tagers, is

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Speaker 1: kind of doesn't really make a lot of sense. But

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Speaker 1: the overall premise of the film is a wild movie.

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Speaker 1: I would just with school holidays coming up next week,

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Speaker 1: I would just encourage any parents out there not to

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Speaker 1: look at this film and Jenna or Tager who is

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Speaker 1: the star of that Wednesday series, and then ye would

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Speaker 1: be a good one to take the kids along too. No,

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Speaker 1: it will traumatize that they will have nightmares. It's the

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Speaker 1: director really, you know, wears his influences on his sleeve.

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Speaker 1: very very much so very much so with some just

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Speaker 1: maybe wrong. Was Will Poulter. Wasn't he the young guy

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Speaker 1: in Dope Sick? Yeah he was. Yeah, so you so

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Speaker 1: you've got you know, you've got some interesting references in there,

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Speaker 1: but unfortunately Death of the Unicorn doesn't completely live up

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Speaker 1: to some of those references. It's not a Jurassic Park,

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Speaker 1: it's not an alien but it's a fun idea. Hey, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad somebody made it. Who writes this stuff? It's amazing?

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, how many ripped them and new ones?

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Speaker 1: a three three all right, thank you, Ben, See you guys,