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1. Episode #478: 'Wicker' with Brea Grant

   30 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 4 min

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   Olivia Colman is a rude yet disarming fisherwoman. Alexander Skarsgård is a man made out of wicker, at her request. By Peter Dinklage. If you need more reasons to consider the new "fable" movie, WICKER, we're considering it this week with Reading Smut and Reading Glasses co-host Brea Grant. Then, we'll talk about other fables we think would make great films. Plus, another Christmas Movie Minute in the books! Lees meer

   What’s Good
   Alonso - Old Halloween ads on YouTube (for example…)
   Drea - Covid and Flu Boosters
   Brea - Burbank, CA, Horror Mecca??
   Kevin - Redshirts by John Scalzi

   ITIDIC
   Heated Rivalry Coming to Movie Theaters
   Cheyenne Jackson Champions Actors Who Are Close to Saving their SAG Insurance

   Staff Picks
   Drea - Border
   Alonso - Wildwood
   Brea - Your Monster
   Kevin - You Can See Everything

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   With
   Kevin Avery
   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

2. Episode #477: 'Sense and Sensibility' (2026) with Nikki Payne

   23 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 8 min

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   Did we need another Sense & Sensibility? Turns out, maybe yes. Romance novelist (and cultural anthropologist!) Nikki Payne joins us to weigh the merits of director Georgia Oakley’s new adaptation, and separate the Willoughbys from the Bradleys. Then we read a hotline email about esoteric movie insights and subject Alonso to the first Christmas Movie Minute of the year! Lees meer

   What’s Good?
   Alonso - I’ll Believe in Anything by Jacob Tierney
   Drea - Libby and their addition of an AI opt-out
   Nikki - Take Charge of My Heart on Netflix
   Kevin - Casey Abrams concert

   ITIDIC
   Netflix Reports Box Office for the First Time for La Bola Negra’s Big Success
   Soderbergh to Step in to Finish The Batman 2

   Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson on Graham Norton

   Staff Picks
   Drea - Wildwood
   Alonso - Once Upon a Time in Harlem
   Nikki - Rye Lane (hey, we did an episode!)
   Kevin - Carrie (1976)

   Alonso’s Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas

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   With
   Kevin Avery
   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

3. Episode #476: How I Met ‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother’

   16 oktober 2026 · 51 min

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   Years ago, Mahershala Ali announced that he was working with Marvel to develop a new feature Blade with himself as the titular vampire slayer. The first director attached to the project was Bassam Tariq. Blade ended up in project hell, never quite able to get off the ground, despite Ali getting in great shape and training with swordplay. Eventually Ali and Tariq took advantage of Marvel’s delinquency (and Ali's training) to develop Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother. It’s a film that centers on the American Muslim experience, but is by turns dramatic and action-packed. The team discusses the film and uses the opportunity to talk about some of their favorite films with MacGuffins. Lees meer

   What’s Good

   Alonso - Carrie on Amazon Prime

   Drea - Her friend is cancer free!

   Kevin - It’s finally cold (by Southern California standards)

   ITIDIC

   Indiewire Editorial: Are There Too Many Horror Movies?

   Crazy Rich Asians to Be Adapted Into a Series, With Same Cast and Filmmakers

   After Years of Concern, TCM Looks Like It’s Sticking Around at Skydance

   Staff Picks

   Drea - Tenzing

   Alonso - The Devils

   Kevin - The Book of Eli

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   With
   Kevin Avery
   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart

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   With
   Kevin Avery
   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

4. Episode #475: We Need to Talk about DIGGER

   9 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 11 min

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   Just the gang today to talk about a movie that has divided critics and moviegoers alike...at least, those moviegoers who actually took the very secretive bait that DIGGER's ad campaign was offering. Tom Cruise and Riz Ahmed star in this latest film from Alejandra G. Iñárritu. Then, we've got a different kind of movie quiz about films set in their not-so-distant future. Lees meer

   What’s Good
   Alonso - Every Time a Bell Rings by Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen
   Drea - Luna Wants Tuna
   Kevin - Returning to GBBO

   ITIDIC
   WB Watertower Already Repainted to Reflect Merger
   Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay Might Be Making the Next Transformers Movie

   Staff Picks
   Alonso - The Social Reckoning
   Drea - Fjord, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, and Dr. Strangelove
   Kevin - Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

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   With
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   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

5. Episode #474: 'Primetime' with Gillian Walters

   2 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 8 min

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   Director Lance Oppenheim's debut feature, Primetime has a sales pitch that's hard to deny: Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen. So does the movie live up to that enticing promise? We have true crime buff, former Dateline devotee, and co-host of All Things Cozy, Gillian Walters, with us to discuss the film as both a work of fiction and a portrait of real (if complicated) man and moment in TV history. Then we'll talk about some of our most memorable morally ambiguous movies Lees meer

   What's Good
   Alonso - Magazine Break
   Drea - Lili Reinhart's wig in The Love Hypothesis
   Gillian - Spooky Kitty Soap Holder from Bath & Body Works
   Kevin - The Sixty-Year Mission screening

   ITIDIC
   Viral Lesbian Bar Article From Boston Globe Is Piquing Hollywood’s Interest
   An Indie Filmmaker Is Distributing His Movie Via One Traveling Copy of a DVD

   Staff Picks
   Drea - Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
   Alonso - No Sleep Till
   Gillian - The DUFF
   Kevin - Hope (kinda) & Avengers: Endgame (still)

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   With
   Kevin Avery
   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

6. Episode 473: 'The Musical' with Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino

   25 september 2026 · 1 uur 6 min

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   This week we've got expert musical improvisors Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino with us to discuss a movie about a middle school musical gone way off course, at the hands of a drama teacher pushed to the edge. Part comedy, part film noir, it's the feature debut of director Giselle Bonilla, and it was a Sundance premiere. THE MUSICAL! Then we talk about other films that use film noir tropes to comedic ends, and pitch some actually-pretty-genius new movies in that genre too. Lees meer

   Look out for Jess and Zach's movie, Mock Trial
   Listen to Off Book (or see it live!)

   What’s Good
   Alonso - Get your colonoscopy!
   Drea - Bob the Drag Queen even makes the Love Island Reunion show fun
   Jess - The Gilded Age on a plane
   Zach - The Wolves of Glendale, Go to the Woods
   Kevin - seeing the Rams live

   ITIDIC
   AMC Burbank Pepper-Spray Guy: Villain or Hero?
   New California Post Production Tax Credit Becomes Law

   Staff Pick
   Alonso - You Had to Be There
   Jess - Original Cast Album: Company (w/”Co-Op” double feature)
   Drea - The Incomer
   Zach - The Court Jester
   Kevin - Resident Evil

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   With
   Kevin Avery
   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

7. Episode #472: 'Practical Magic 2' with Angie Han

   18 september 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

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   The stars of the original Practical Magic stars are back (at least, most of them) and just as cursed as ever. We have Hollywood Reporter TV Critic Angie Han with us to weigh in on whether this film left us feeling charmed, or like we'd been hit by a truck. Then, in honor of a family that has two sisters in every generation, we have a movie quiz about two-sister films! Lees meer

   What’s Good?
   Alonso - Meg Stalter’s Emmys ensemble
   Drea - uno spaghetto
   Angie - TrüFrü Dark and White Chocolate Covered Freeze Dried Strawberries
   Kevin - Movie theater seat snobbery

   ITIDIC
   ‘Woman Unknown’ Wins Venice Film Festival
   MPA Projects Proposed Federal Tax Credit would Add 143,000 Film & TV Jobs

   Staff Picks
   Drea - If I Go Will They Miss Me
   Alonso - Now, Voyager
   Angie - The History of Concrete
   Kevin - Martha Marcy May Marlene

   Here's a Letterboxd list of Two- and Three-Sister Movies

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   With
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   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

8. Episode #471: It's Absurdist, It's Disturbing, It's 'Buddy'

   11 september 2026 · 1 uur

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   Casper Kelly might be most famous for his this-shouldn't-be-so-creepy comedy short "Too Many Cooks." Now he's got his feature directorial debut on his hands (but don't sleep on Yule Log 2, according to Alonso), and It's Buddy, a comedy horror that owes a debt of gratitude to the insistent cheerfulness of Barney the Dinosaur. We'll get into all that, and then talk about some of our favorite times TV crossed over onto the big screens. Lees meer

   What's Good:
   Alonso: kouign amann
   Drea: Minnesota State Fair
   Kevin: Costco belt

   ITIDIC
   • Summer U.S. Box Office Hits All-Time $4.76B Record: How Audiences Surrendered To Moviegoing
   • Telluride’s Top-Secret Film Was a Documentary and people are abuzz (You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes doc)

   Staff Picks:
   Alonso: We Are Pat
   Drea: Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
   Kevin: Colony (Gunche)

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   With
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   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

9. Episode #470: 'Coyote vs. Acme' with David Kittredge

   4 september 2026 · 1 uur 6 min

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   Shelved after completion in 2023, COYOTE VS. ACME has finally detonated onto big screens everywhere. We have director David Kittredge (whose doc BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL is finally making it to theaters as well!) with us to follow this courtroom-drama-by-way-of-Merrie-Melodies. Then we'll talk about the fictional lawsuits that the characters of other films might have on their hands.

   What’s Good
   Alonso - But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition by Kristen Lopez
   Drea - Daisy Chain Fields Festival (link is to non-profit beneficiaries if you want to donate!)
   David - Boorman and the Devil on the big screen, and people going back to the cinemas
   Kevin - French press coffee

   ITIDIC

   New AMC Theaters Venture Aims to Put Smaller Films on Big Screen

   Remembering Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, Movie Stars

   Staff Picks
   Alonso: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
   Drea: Hadestown: the Musical
   David: Buffet Infinity and Buddy
   Kevin: The End of Oak Street

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   With
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   Drea Clark
   Alonso Duralde

   Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
   Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

10. Episode #469: ‘Tony’ with Katie Walsh

    28 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 3 min

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    ***

    The main character of TONY is Anthony Bourdain, but Matt Johnson’s latest film is not exactly a biopic. We have film critic Katie Walsh with us to discuss Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, and the rest of the kitchen crew in this unusual coming of age movie. Then we’ll think up some other personalities we’d like to see inspire coming-of-age/early-life pics.

    What’s Good

    Drea: actors with real teeth

    Katie: Matt Johnson’s biceps

    Kevin: finding childhood books (Chilling Ghost Stories, and Choose Your Own Adventure: The Cave of Time and Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons)

    ITIDIC

    Sold-Out Silent Film Fest Showcases Brand New Silent Films

    IndieWire: The Prescience of Disney’s Direct-to-Video Sequels

    Staff Picks
    Drea: The Cycle of Love
    Katie: The Rivals of Amziah King
    Kevin: The Conversation

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    With
    Kevin Avery
    Drea Clark
    Alonso Duralde

    Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
    Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

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