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1. Featuring: Filmspotting Podcast | Fall Movie Preview and The Social Reckoning | #1085

   29 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 46 min

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   With the fall film festival season (mostly) in the rearview and release dates set through the end of the year, Adam and Josh hold a Fall Movie Preview Draft that sees them largely ignoring obvious picks like Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three in favor of battling over some of the most intriguing indies still to come. Plus, a review of Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning and Massacre Theatre. Lees meer

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   Intro (00:00:00-00:02:25)

   ‘26 Fall Preview Draft (00:02:26-0:25:19)

   Filmspotting Family (0:25:20-00:31:25)

   Preview Draft, cont. (00:31:26-1:02:41)

   The Social Reckoning (1:02:42-01:30:58)

   Massacre Theatre (01:30:59-01:36:46)

   Credits / New Releases (01:36:47-01:44:01)

   Notes:

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   -Yes, for some reason James Caan appeared on a Fall Preview cast list for “Cliff Booth” along with his son. No, it didn’t occur to Adam that he was dead. (He is.)

   -”The Family Guy” has the famous “It insists upon itself” joke – not “The Simpsons.”

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   -Refocus Film Festival

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2. KILLER CARGO - Act Three

   28 oktober 2026 · 37 min

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   🎧 KILLER CARGO — Act Three | Written by Heather Foster Lees meer

   Christmas Eve. Branson, Missouri. One billionaire with a God complex. One alien with an insatiable appetite. One private jet that really, really should have stayed on the ground.

   Just when flight attendant Anita Fitzgerald and her insufferable copilot, Kevin Powers, think they've survived the worst Christmas Eve in aviation history, their billionaire boss, Daria Jagoda, arrives with armed reinforcements, a billion-dollar plan, and absolutely no intention of admitting she might have made a mistake.

   Turns out the monster isn't a mistake. It's an investment.

   Daria is convinced her murderous little science project will save humanity. Unfortunately, humanity keeps getting eaten, Kevin is barely holding himself together, and Anita is discovering that the only thing more dangerous than an extraterrestrial killing machine is a billionaire who believes her own inspirational bullshit.

   Now the creature is growing, the body count is climbing, and the only way to stop the nightmare might be to get back on the very plane that started it.

   KILLER CARGO reaches its gloriously unhinged conclusion with more carnage, more spectacularly bad decisions, and one flight attendant who has officially had enough of everyone's shit.

   Buckle up. This is going to be one hell of a landing.

   Featuring Ashley Bell as Anita Fitzgerald, Darin Toonder as Kevin Powers, Shaan Sharma as Captain Charles Song, Jade Tailor as Daria Jagoda, Charles Halford as Cliff Krantz, Ed You as Idris Bowman, Matt Curtin as Arnie Heim, and Sarah Phillips as Madge, with Tim Friedlander narrating.

   Act Three of Three.

   Written by Heather Foster.

   Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.

   Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.

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3. KILLER CARGO - Act Two

   20 oktober 2026 · 42 min

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   🎧 KILLER CARGO — Act Two | Written by Heather Foster Lees meer

   Christmas Eve. Branson, Missouri. One deserted airport. One forty-foot Christmas tree. One passenger who was never supposed to get off the plane.

   Flight attendant Anita Fitzgerald and her insufferable copilot, Kevin Powers, have somehow survived the flight from hell. The jet is on the ground, the cabin door is shut, and whatever crawled out of that mysterious cargo pod is safely locked inside.

   Or so they think.

   While Kevin self-medicates with stolen whiskey and a Santa hat, Anita waits for their billionaire boss to arrive with help. Meanwhile, a foul-mouthed cleaning woman is having a spectacularly bad night, the Christmas decorations are about to become a serious liability, and something very hungry has discovered the joys of airport travel.

   Turns out surviving the flight was the easy part.

   KILLER CARGO is back with more mayhem, more questionable decisions, and a rapidly growing alien with absolutely no respect for personal space. The terminal is closed, the body count is rising, and the only thing standing between humanity and a very unpleasant Christmas morning might be two people who can barely stand each other.

   Featuring Ashley Bell as Anita Fitzgerald, Darin Toonder as Kevin Powers, Shaan Sharma as Captain Charles Song, Jade Tailor as Daria Jagoda, Charles Halford as Cliff Krantz, Ed You as Idris Bowman, Matt Curtin as Arnie Heim, and Sarah Phillips as Madge, with Tim Friedlander narrating.

   Act Two of Three.

   Written by Heather Foster.

   Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.

   Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.

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4. KILLER CARGO - Act 1

   13 oktober 2026 · 43 min

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   🎧 KILLER CARGO | Act One | Written by Heather Foster Lees meer

   Christmas Eve. Springfield, Missouri. One luxury jet. One secret shipment. One spectacularly bad idea.

   For flight attendant Anita Fitzgerald, the night is already complicated. She's sleeping with a married captain, dodging the advances of an insufferable copilot, and trying to survive another holiday in the service of the obscenely wealthy.

   Then three nervous men board with a six-foot, frosted-white container. Nobody will say what's inside. Nobody wants to be near it.

   And somewhere over Missouri, something starts moving.

   KILLER CARGO is a wickedly funny, gloriously twisted sci-fi horror ride where the seats are leather, the liquor is top-shelf, and turbulence is the least of anyone's problems.

   Featuring Ashley Bell as Anita Fitzgerald, Darin Toonder as Kevin Powers, Shaan Sharma as Captain Charles Song, Jade Tailor as Daria Jagoda, Charles Halford as Cliff Krantz, Ed You as Idris Bowman, Matt Curtin as Arnie Heim, and Sarah Phillips as Madge, with Tim Friedlander narrating.

   Act One of Three.

   Written by Heather Foster.

   Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.

   Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.

   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

5. QUESTA - Act 3

   6 oktober 2026 · 41 min

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   🎧 QUESTA Act 3 | by Victor Bumbalo Lees meer

   Chelsea, 1991. The truth catches up.

   Father James comes looking for answers. Paul finally gives him one. He killed Will. But the priest tells him not to confess to Lori and not to go to the police. Let her keep believing her son was loved.

   Paul says goodbye to the woman whose life he destroyed without ever telling her why.

   Then Daniel steps out of the shadows.

   The witness who saw everything that night tells Paul he lied to the police on purpose. He gave them the wrong face. He protected him. And now he tells Paul the one thing Paul never expected to hear from anyone again.

   He loves him.

   With nowhere left to hide and nothing left to go back to, Paul decides to leave New York for a tiny town in New Mexico where his family was happy once.

   Questa.

   QUESTA is a devastating, lyrical, morally serious story about grief, faith, and forgiveness. Monster's Ball meets Manchester by the Sea.

   Featuring John Milhiser (Saturday Night Live), Oscar nominee Bruce Davison (Longtime Companion, X-Men), Maury Morgan (This Is Us, Richard Jewell), Anthony Holiday, Ashley Platz (Yellowstone), Bruce Nozick (Weeds, All the Way), Matt Bradford Sullivan (New Amsterdam, Juilliard), Darin Toonder (Paradise), Harriet Sansom Harris (Frasier, Phantom Thread), Rob Fitzgerald (American Crime Story), Kiel Kennedy (Robot Chicken, Superstore), Brendan Bradley (Resident Evil Village, Timeless), with Meeghan Holaway narrating.

   Act 3 of 3

   Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.

   Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.

   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6. QUESTA - Act 2

   29 september 2026 · 27 min

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   🎧 QUESTA Act 2 | by Victor Bumbalo Lees meer

   Chelsea, 1991. Weeks after the alley.

   Paul thought he could stop. He can't. He's following the mother now. Crying in front of her at a coffee shop while she comforts him, not knowing the man at her table is the man who killed her son.

   The witness who lied for him is watching Paul now, learning his name, standing across the street from his door.

   And in a confessional at St. Anthony's, the mother breaks down on the priest she's been sleeping with and tells him God sent her a stranger as a punishment. She doesn't know the stranger has already punished her once.

   QUESTA is a devastating, lyrical, morally serious story about grief, faith, and forgiveness. Monster's Ball meets Manchester by the Sea.

   Featuring John Milhiser (Saturday Night Live), Oscar nominee Bruce Davison (Longtime Companion, X-Men), Maury Morgan (This Is Us, Richard Jewell), Anthony Holiday, Ashley Platz (Yellowstone), Bruce Nozick (Weeds, All the Way), Matt Bradford Sullivan (New Amsterdam, Juilliard), Darin Toonder (Paradise), Harriet Sansom Harris (Frasier, Phantom Thread), Rob Fitzgerald (American Crime Story), Kiel Kennedy (Robot Chicken, Superstore), Brendan Bradley (Resident Evil Village, Timeless), with Meeghan Holaway narrating.

   Act 2 of 3

   Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.
   Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.

   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7. QUESTA - Act 1

   22 september 2026 · 39 min

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   🎧 QUESTA Act 1 — by Victor Bumbalo Lees meer

   Chelsea, 1991. An hour after the rain.

   A grieving widower kills a stranger in an alley behind a gay bar. He runs to his sister. She hides the bloody clothes. He tries to disappear into his own life.

   He can't.

   The dead boy has a mother. A hairdresser in the Village. A priest she's been sleeping with. A homeless witness in the shadows who tells the police the wrong face on purpose. And a killer who cannot stop thinking about the boy he left in the alley.

   QUESTA is a devastating, lyrical, morally serious story about grief, faith, and forgiveness. Monster's Ball meets Manchester by the Sea.

   Featuring John Milhiser (Saturday Night Live), Oscar nominee Bruce Davison (Longtime Companion, X-Men), Maury Morgan (This Is Us, Richard Jewell), Anthony Holiday, Ashley Platz (Yellowstone), Bruce Nozick (Weeds, All the Way), Matt Bradford Sullivan (New Amsterdam, Juilliard), Darin Toonder (Paradise), Harriet Sansom Harris (Frasier, Phantom Thread), Rob Fitzgerald (American Crime Story), Kiel Kennedy (Robot Chicken, Superstore), Brendan Bradley (Resident Evil Village, Timeless), with Meeghan Holaway narrating.

   Act 1 of 3

   Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.

   Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.

   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8. SuburbaKnight - Act 3

   4 september 2026 · 46 min

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   SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act Three Lees meer

   Walter Knope has spent most of his life avoiding confrontation.

   That is about to become difficult.

   Walter, Samantha and Bobby Joe cross the street armed with a sword, a crossbow, a mace, a revolver and one deeply impractical suit of medieval armor.

   Richard is waiting.

   So is the rest of the neighborhood.

   Inside Richard's house they discover the party has evolved into something considerably less HOA-approved. Music. Neon. Blood. An orgy full of succubi. Richard sitting above it all like Satan's sexiest homeowners association president.

   Samantha asks where her daughter is.

   Then shoots Richard through the eye with a crossbow.

   It barely slows him down.

   Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT reaches its gloriously unhinged conclusion as Walter's fight to save his family becomes a full-scale supernatural war over everything he thought he had already lost.

   Richard separates them.

   Walter gets beaten nearly unconscious. Samantha is pulled into a seductive nightmare built from everything she thinks she wants. And Bobby Joe does what any legendary demon hunter would do when confronted with actual demons.

   He runs.

   Unfortunately, Richard isn't finished with him either.

   Bobby Joe finds himself inside the greatest fantasy of his life: back on the set of Terror Vision, surrounded by beautiful women telling him he's brilliant.

   Even Bobby Joe eventually realizes something is wrong.

   When the illusion breaks, he finds Mia.

   Or at least something wearing Mia.

   One conveniently placed antique mirror later, Bobby Joe finally discovers that some of his monster-movie bullshit may actually be useful.

   For perhaps the first time in his life, Bobby Joe Williams earns the title:

   Demon Hunter.

   Mia is safe.

   Her parents aren't.

   So Bobby Joe locks her in his van and goes back inside.

   Walter and Bobby Joe reunite, fight their way through Richard's newly demonic neighbors and discover something hidden beneath the perfect suburban house.

   A passageway.
   …

9. SuburbaKnight - Act 2

   25 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

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   SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act Two Lees meer

   Walter Knope has finally discovered the one thing worse than suspecting your new neighbor is a sex demon.

   Being right.

   Inside Richard's immaculate house, Walter gets the confirmation he was looking for. The Maitlands are dead. Richard isn't human. And he isn't just interested in Samantha.

   He wants everything Walter has.

   Walter tries to warn Sam. It goes badly.

   What starts as an argument about Richard quickly becomes an argument about money, sex, failure, jealousy and every other thing a married couple has been politely not saying out loud. Sam packs a bag. Walter, terrified Richard will get to her, practically helps her leave.

   Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT is a wicked suburban horror-comedy about marriage, masculinity and what happens when your midlife crisis actually grows horns.

   Walter needs someone who understands monsters.

   Enter Bobby Joe Williams.

   Local horror host. Full-time drunk. Part-time monster expert. Possibly the least reassuring person you could want standing between your family and eternal damnation.

   Bobby Joe confirms the bad news. Richard is an incubus. He feeds on souls, controls his victims through desire and, unfortunately, appears to be immortal.

   Meanwhile, Richard has already started remaking the neighborhood.

   Walter goes looking for Andy and instead finds him dead in the bathtub, his wife Alli transformed into something considerably less neighborly. Walter barely escapes with his life.

   Then Samantha comes home.

   Richard is waiting.

   This time, Sam sees him too.

   When Richard finally drops the charm and shows them what he really is, he offers Walter everything he ever wanted. Money. Freedom. A fresh start.

   All he wants in return is Samantha.

   Walter says no.

   Then Mia introduces Richard's face to a medieval mace.

   For a moment, it feels like the Knopes may actually have this thing under control.

   Then Richard takes their daughter.

   Now Walter and Sam are done running. They need Mia back. They ne…

10. SuburbaKnight Act 1

    11 augustus 2026 · 26 min

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    SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act One Lees meer

    Walter Knope is having a bad week.

    His antique store is bankrupt. The bank has locked him out. His house is now filled with everything he couldn't sell. His teenage daughter thinks he's embarrassing, his marriage has seen better days, and Walter is beginning to suspect middle age may just be a long series of humiliations ending in death.

    Then Richard Sarandon moves in across the street.

    Richard is rich, handsome, charming and spectacularly confident. The neighborhood women can't stop looking at him. The husbands barely notice. Walter notices everything.

    Especially the two body bags carried out of Richard's house in the middle of the night.

    Then Walter sees Richard do something no human being should be able to do.

    Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT is a wicked suburban horror-comedy about marriage, jealousy, masculinity and the nightmare of discovering that the impossibly perfect man next door may actually be a monster.

    Walter calls the police. They find nothing. Richard smiles. Walter looks insane.

    Then comes the neighborhood party. Pool. Booze. Barbecue. Husbands watching football. Wives watching Richard.

    With help from Andy, his beer-bellied neighbor and resident horror-movie expert, Walter finally puts a name to what moved in across the street.

    An incubus.

    A demon that seduces women and feeds on their life force.

    Now Richard knows Walter is onto him. Walter knows Richard wants Samantha. And the fight Walter thought was about his pride, his marriage and his rapidly collapsing life is about to become something much worse.

    Luckily, Walter's house is currently filled with swords, crossbows, armor and medieval weapons nobody wanted to buy.

    Maybe the antique business wasn't such a bad idea after all.

    Starring Darin Toonder, Jim O'Heir, Jade Tailor, Jack Daniel, Rob Fitzgerald, Logan Laurel, Emily Brolin, Ashley Platz, and Zeke Alton.

    Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.

    Executive Produced by…

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