WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from January 7, 2025

Listener comments!
	👍 5:59pm zachary: Good evening Jim and Thumbers!
	6:00pm Spikey BXL: Jim, Wufus!
	6:03pm Marc15: This sounds like Rufus Wainwright.
	6:03pm DjLorraine: I watched Wicked p1. (The book makes more sense)
	6:03pm micah: big thumbs down on the new theme song
	👍 6:03pm zachary: That was some Steely Dan song. Jim's just trying to provoke people. Ha!
	6:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: Be sure to dial 201-209-9368 carefully when calling in.
	6:04pm Mark T: Good evening
	6:06pm common: did not see a 2024 film. so, invasion of the body snatchers from 78
	6:07pm micah: Jim will watch a Cassevettes movie ONLY so he can play that song
	6:09pm Scared of Feb 29: Naked actor awards with the mask over his deal lmaooo
	6:10pm Steve Del Sol: I hope they are talking about architecture.
	6:10pm Bozko: Bertrand Bonello’s the beast
	6:10pm efd: wasn't Laszlo Toth Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci?
	6:10pm mrdonutsu: ↳ efd @6:10 Correct!
	6:11pm Annie: Still say LONGLEGS!!! Most memorable for sure. Also strong: Kneecap Wicked Little Letters Anora Complete Unknown Nosferatu OMG I can't decide Stick with Longlegs
	6:12pm Mark T: How about a “Three Stooges” show. We could discuss/debate Curly versus Shemp, fav episodes. Of course it would be mostly guys as very few women like the Stooges.
	6:14pm Tom from Stirling: The Wild Robot was a good movie. It was no Alien: Romulus though
	6:15pm Regina J: The Academy Awards also has a separate award for best director and best film. ???
	6:18pm ∫ydniuß: The Rutalist feat Eric Idle
	6:19pm Tom from Stirling: Adrien Brody was good in Summer of Sam.
	6:19pm common: sounds like you hated the brutalist, jim. sounds over the top
	6:20pm Tom from Stirling: Tom Skerrit? He was good in Alien.
	6:20pm PaddyDoubleM’s: Spacecamp was the last film for ABC Motion Pictures.
	6:22pm newton: ↳ common @6:19 last week it sounded like jim hated the dylan bi-opic
	6:22pm Regina J: Brutalist architecture is incredibly cool, so yeah, I think it was plenty brutalist. :) also: Adrien Brody grew up speaking Hungarian, so I suspect his accent was pretty spot-on. For whatever it’s worth, I thought the film was beautiful , and all the performances were brilliant. Just my penny’s worth of an opinion. Other favorites of the past year include A Real Pain, Oh Canada, and A Complete Unknown.
	6:22pm WallCharger360: What did Jim just say ‘you can’t go wrong’ with the movie? I missed the first part
	6:23pm steven: I'm so sorry, but Requiem for a Dream is based on a novel by Hubert Selby Jr. Sorry.
	6:23pm Tom from Stirling: Anora was very funny.
	6:24pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ WallCharger360 @6:22 Probably Alien
	6:24pm ∫ydniuß: beavers?
	6:24pm HyperDose: Patton Oswalt taking the Emmy to Arby's with a bottle of booze was legendary
	6:26pm newton: monsters from the id
	6:27pm WallCharger360: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:24 Cool. Yea I haven’t seen any of the new ones yet
	6:29pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ WallCharger360 @6:27 Definitely NOT The Brutalist
	6:30pm common: elevator to the gallows is brilliant!
	6:30pm joe: The soundtrack is by Miles Davis and BRILLIANT
	6:32pm common: ↳ joe @6:30 hell yea
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: Conclave was a good movie from 2024. It's gonna win some awards.
	6:35pm Pablexa™: Sorry if my FU JB(tm) was not allowed to be played - Didn't mean to get an FCC fine
	6:36pm C: I remember when Gandhi came out,3 hours with an intermission. It was the start of stretching out cinematic experience. I prefer to divest my brain in one sweep instead of the new trend of episodic streaming.
	6:37pm DjLorraine: I'm not a prude but Wolverine and Deadpool was just full of disrespectful stabbing. Plus children will find a way to watch. Many f bombs too.
	6:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Possible alternate subject for another day: call in with your worst experience of spoilers. Like someone told you in advance that Old Yeller was going to die.
	6:38pm LastWhiteRhino: Happy Gilmore 2 will be out in late July 2025 !!!!
	6:39pm DanFA: They used to have all the saucy movies behind a red curtain.
	6:40pm DanFA: Very rarely does the Best Picture Winner have much of a shelf life.
	6:40pm HyperDose: There Will Be Blood rewrote the comedy playbook
	6:41pm DanFA: Blood Meridian might be the bleakest book I've ever read. Great book, but...holy moly.
	6:44pm Tom from Stirling: "A Real Pain" was a good movie from 2024.
	6:45pm DanFA: I recently rewatched Wild At Heart starring Nic Cage and it was not as great as I remembered it, but still good movie.
	6:45pm yippie: the dostoevsky book notes from the dead house has some great scenes where all these inmates in a siberian prison put on a big christmas theatre
	6:46pm DanFA: And it's only an hour long!
	6:48pm Tom from Stirling: Clay just goes around interviewing random people in that movie. (It's really not that good)
	6:49pm DanFA: Naked Lunch the movie was great. I think Ken hates it.
	6:50pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ DanFA @6:49 Is that a Cronenberg movie?
	6:51pm DanFA: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:50 Yes.
	6:51pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ DanFA @6:51 Yes, itsa gooda.
	6:52pm DanFA: ↳ DanFA @6:51 I think it's one of his best. Julian Sands turns into a giant centipede. Peter Weller plays Burroughs. Ian Holm, Roy Schneider.
	6:52pm Pablexa™: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:48 I was about to watch it
	6:55pm DanFA: Combat Shock is great trash. I saw that at Two Boots Cinema (RIP) 15 years ago with a bunch of punk rock kids.
	6:56pm Pablexa™: Jim's knowledge of Space Camp has me thinking about donating some more $
	6:57pm tom tom the pipers son: i met buddy in berlin who was a friend of a friend
	6:57pm ultradamno: The Eraserhead baby is a cutie patootie, any way you slice it.
	6:57pm common: did combat shock have another title?
	6:58pm glue_horizon: i always enjoy micah's picks!
	7:00pm Jimbopackerfanski: Pabs is allowed in here?
	11:58pm Pablexa™: ↳ Jimbopackerfanski @7:00 Always Have To Be Here

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from January 7, 2025

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January 7, 2025: 'The Brutalist', 'The Damned', 'The Fire Inside', 'Vermiglio', 'Santosh', and Micah's Pick 'Combat Rock'

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Artist	Track	Comments	Approx. start time
Steely Dan	Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Brutalist'	Directed by Brady Corbet Written by Brady Corbet Mona Fastvold Produced by Trevor Matthews Nick Gordon Brian Young Andrew Morrison Andrew Lauren D.J. Gugenheim Brady Corbet Starring Adrien Brody Felicity Jones Guy Pearce Joe Alwyn Raffey Cassidy Stacy Martin Emma Laird Isaach de Bankolé Alessandro Nivola	0:05:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Damned'	Directed by Thordur Palsson Screenplay by Jamie Hannigan Story by Thordur Palsson Produced by Emilie Jouffroy Kamilla Hodol John Keville Conor Barry Tim Headington Theresa Steele Page Nate Kamiya Starring Odessa Young Joe Cole Siobhan Finneran Rory McCann Turlough Convery Lewis Gribben Francis Magee Mícheál Óg Lane	0:24:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Fire Inside'	Directed by Rachel Morrison Written by Barry Jenkins Produced by Elishia Holmes Barry Jenkins Starring Ryan Destiny Brian Tyree Henry	0:28:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Santosh' "'Santosh'" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	Directed by Sandhya Suri Written by Sandhya Suri Produced by Mike Goodridge James Bowsher Alan McAlex Balthazar de Ganay Starring Shahana Goswami Sunita Rajwar Sanjay Bishnoi Kushal Dubey	0:47:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Vermiglio'	Directed by Maura Delpero Written by Maura Delpero Produced by Francesca Andreoli Maura Delpero Santiago Fondevila Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli Starring Giuseppe De Domenico Tommaso Ragno	0:47:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet and Micah discuss	'Combat Shock'	Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo Written by Buddy Giovinazzo Produced by Buddy Giovinazzo Starring Ricky Giovinazzo Veronica Stork Mitch Maglio Asaph Livni	0:55:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Miss World	Put Me In A Movie "Put Me In A Movie" by "Miss World"		0:58:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👍 5:59pm zachary: Good evening Jim and Thumbers!
	6:00pm Spikey BXL: Jim, Wufus!
	6:03pm Marc15: This sounds like Rufus Wainwright.
	6:03pm DjLorraine: I watched Wicked p1. (The book makes more sense)
	6:03pm micah: big thumbs down on the new theme song
	👍 6:03pm zachary: That was some Steely Dan song. Jim's just trying to provoke people. Ha!
	6:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: Be sure to dial 201-209-9368 carefully when calling in.
	6:04pm Mark T: Good evening
	6:06pm common: did not see a 2024 film. so, invasion of the body snatchers from 78
	6:07pm micah: Jim will watch a Cassevettes movie ONLY so he can play that song
	6:09pm Scared of Feb 29: Naked actor awards with the mask over his deal lmaooo
	6:10pm Steve Del Sol: I hope they are talking about architecture.
	6:10pm Bozko: Bertrand Bonello’s the beast
	6:10pm efd: wasn't Laszlo Toth Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci?
	6:10pm mrdonutsu: ↳ efd @6:10 Correct!
	6:11pm Annie: Still say LONGLEGS!!! Most memorable for sure. Also strong: Kneecap Wicked Little Letters Anora Complete Unknown Nosferatu OMG I can't decide Stick with Longlegs
	6:12pm Mark T: How about a “Three Stooges” show. We could discuss/debate Curly versus Shemp, fav episodes. Of course it would be mostly guys as very few women like the Stooges.
	6:14pm Tom from Stirling: The Wild Robot was a good movie. It was no Alien: Romulus though
	6:15pm Regina J: The Academy Awards also has a separate award for best director and best film. ???
	6:18pm ∫ydniuß: The Rutalist feat Eric Idle
	6:19pm Tom from Stirling: Adrien Brody was good in Summer of Sam.
	6:19pm common: sounds like you hated the brutalist, jim. sounds over the top
	6:20pm Tom from Stirling: Tom Skerrit? He was good in Alien.
	6:20pm PaddyDoubleM’s: Spacecamp was the last film for ABC Motion Pictures.
	6:22pm newton: ↳ common @6:19 last week it sounded like jim hated the dylan bi-opic
	6:22pm Regina J: Brutalist architecture is incredibly cool, so yeah, I think it was plenty brutalist. :) also: Adrien Brody grew up speaking Hungarian, so I suspect his accent was pretty spot-on. For whatever it’s worth, I thought the film was beautiful , and all the performances were brilliant. Just my penny’s worth of an opinion. Other favorites of the past year include A Real Pain, Oh Canada, and A Complete Unknown.
	6:22pm WallCharger360: What did Jim just say ‘you can’t go wrong’ with the movie? I missed the first part
	6:23pm steven: I'm so sorry, but Requiem for a Dream is based on a novel by Hubert Selby Jr. Sorry.
	6:23pm Tom from Stirling: Anora was very funny.
	6:24pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ WallCharger360 @6:22 Probably Alien
	6:24pm ∫ydniuß: beavers?
	6:24pm HyperDose: Patton Oswalt taking the Emmy to Arby's with a bottle of booze was legendary
	6:26pm newton: monsters from the id
	6:27pm WallCharger360: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:24 Cool. Yea I haven’t seen any of the new ones yet
	6:29pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ WallCharger360 @6:27 Definitely NOT The Brutalist
	6:30pm common: elevator to the gallows is brilliant!
	6:30pm joe: The soundtrack is by Miles Davis and BRILLIANT
	6:32pm common: ↳ joe @6:30 hell yea
	6:35pm Tom from Stirling: Conclave was a good movie from 2024. It's gonna win some awards.
	6:35pm Pablexa™: Sorry if my FU JB(tm) was not allowed to be played - Didn't mean to get an FCC fine
	6:36pm C: I remember when Gandhi came out,3 hours with an intermission. It was the start of stretching out cinematic experience. I prefer to divest my brain in one sweep instead of the new trend of episodic streaming.
	6:37pm DjLorraine: I'm not a prude but Wolverine and Deadpool was just full of disrespectful stabbing. Plus children will find a way to watch. Many f bombs too.
	6:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Possible alternate subject for another day: call in with your worst experience of spoilers. Like someone told you in advance that Old Yeller was going to die.
	6:38pm LastWhiteRhino: Happy Gilmore 2 will be out in late July 2025 !!!!
	6:39pm DanFA: They used to have all the saucy movies behind a red curtain.
	6:40pm DanFA: Very rarely does the Best Picture Winner have much of a shelf life.
	6:40pm HyperDose: There Will Be Blood rewrote the comedy playbook
	6:41pm DanFA: Blood Meridian might be the bleakest book I've ever read. Great book, but...holy moly.
	6:44pm Tom from Stirling: "A Real Pain" was a good movie from 2024.
	6:45pm DanFA: I recently rewatched Wild At Heart starring Nic Cage and it was not as great as I remembered it, but still good movie.
	6:45pm yippie: the dostoevsky book notes from the dead house has some great scenes where all these inmates in a siberian prison put on a big christmas theatre
	6:46pm DanFA: And it's only an hour long!
	6:48pm Tom from Stirling: Clay just goes around interviewing random people in that movie. (It's really not that good)
	6:49pm DanFA: Naked Lunch the movie was great. I think Ken hates it.
	6:50pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ DanFA @6:49 Is that a Cronenberg movie?
	6:51pm DanFA: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:50 Yes.
	6:51pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ DanFA @6:51 Yes, itsa gooda.
	6:52pm DanFA: ↳ DanFA @6:51 I think it's one of his best. Julian Sands turns into a giant centipede. Peter Weller plays Burroughs. Ian Holm, Roy Schneider.
	6:52pm Pablexa™: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:48 I was about to watch it
	6:55pm DanFA: Combat Shock is great trash. I saw that at Two Boots Cinema (RIP) 15 years ago with a bunch of punk rock kids.
	6:56pm Pablexa™: Jim's knowledge of Space Camp has me thinking about donating some more $
	6:57pm tom tom the pipers son: i met buddy in berlin who was a friend of a friend
	6:57pm ultradamno: The Eraserhead baby is a cutie patootie, any way you slice it.
	6:57pm common: did combat shock have another title?
	6:58pm glue_horizon: i always enjoy micah's picks!
	7:00pm Jimbopackerfanski: Pabs is allowed in here?
	11:58pm Pablexa™: ↳ Jimbopackerfanski @7:00 Always Have To Be Here

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from January 7, 2025

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