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  • 4/22/2025
From an action-packed movie that takes place in a car chase to Jim Carrey's "Sonic," Jeff Howard gives us his curated list of must-watch movies for this weekend!

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00:0096.3 KKLZ Mike and Carla morning show all right every Friday morning Jeff Howard Vegas film critic
00:07Jeff Howard steps into our studio talking about what you can watch on the big screen at home on
00:12your big screen yes and before we get to that we were talking about futuristic futuristic things
00:19from movies tv shows cartoons you brought up one that I think we all forgot about yeah 2001 you know
00:24Space Odyssey I was watching Turner Classic Movies the other day and there was the AT&T phone where
00:29he was calling from the moon back to earth a video phone call and I remember like that's just
00:34ridiculous that's never gonna happen and that movie came out when 1969 69 yeah that is really that's
00:40cool you you remind that happened the one and only thing I think that has not happened in movies or
00:45tv is star uh star trek excuse me beaming somebody somewhere when that happens I'm done with radio
00:51I'm done with everything else I'm just beaming myself everywhere teleportation right I just want
00:56step in a pod like the fly and just be transported somewhere exactly or even warp speed can we just
01:02get to another galaxy you know just by pushing a button so those are the two things that haven't
01:05happened yet but great recall all right movies oh yeah this weekend and shows go I have a movie
01:11today that's uh the reason you're going back to the theaters is called ambulance and it's from
01:15director Michael Bay who gave us the rock and transformers and some of the greatest action films of
01:19all time it is a heist movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal uh an LA story and it's a two and a half hour
01:25car chase in the streets of LA and I know and and it's just an incredible tense adrenaline ride and
01:31it's also developing the characters I'm like how did he do this watching this action movie so I mean
01:37I'm literally gripping the armrests in the movies and it's just an incredible ride okay you gotta see
01:43ambulance it's just amazing all right what else something for kids Sonic 2 is now back we have a
01:47sequel with Jim Carrey I love the first one this one is just as fun you know but Jim Carrey's all over
01:52the news saying he may retire this might be his last movie he's gonna go out with Sonic 2 you know
01:57but he said if he gets a really good script okay but yeah I think he will but you know what go see
02:02Sonic 2 man it was just seeing him being the villain it's just the best okay it reminds me of Jack
02:06Lemon in The Great Race you know that oh yeah yeah yeah it's just this over-the-top performance he's just
02:10the best uh if you want something a little further to the soul we have an English drama a romantic drama
02:15over at the village square uh it's called Mothering Sunday and it's got Colin Firth and uh Olivia
02:19Coleman stars Odessa Young who's a maid in World War II in this English mansion and she wants to be a
02:25writer so something that's not a car chase you know an ambulance and all that he wants something for
02:30the soul I mean I really enjoy it it's a great great romantic drama it's called Mothering Sunday so
02:33check that out okay and finally from if you watch that series on epics the season finale is this
02:39weekend and it is from the creators of Lost about these people who are trapped in this abandoned
02:44town and these creatures that come out at night they can't leave and they keep attacking them
02:48it's just and now we're finally 10 episodes in the final episode is this weekend and uh it's just
02:53it's fantastic what is it what is the show it's called From From yes okay well spoiler go ahead what
02:58happens no no no I did see the final episode no I'm not giving it away but Stephen King has been
03:03tweeting about how incredible it is so that's all good okay well I'm putting this out there speaking
03:07of spoilers I was just reading that McDonald's is possibly spoiling Sonic the Hedgehog because
03:14apparently there's a character that's right in their happy meals that you don't know about
03:19unless you see the movie so and that's how they're spoiling spoiler alert don't get the happy meal I
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03:32YouTube because that's where all the great interviews are Jeff good stuff have a great weekend
03:36thanks a lot
03:36thanks a lot

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