Sean is joined by Chris Ryan to discuss the current state of horror in theaters (1:00). They run through a list of movies that are out right now, then dive into what they did and did not like about them (10:00). Later, they?re joined by a special guest to explain the plot of ?Imaginary? (27:00) to Chris, who hasn?t yet seen the film. Finally, Sean and Chris discuss the directors they?d most like to see work in the horror genre (1:00:00) and discuss their most-anticipated upcoming releases (1:10:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda discuss the news that Quentin Tarantino has shelved what was previously reported as his 10th and final film, ?The Movie Critic? (1:00). Then, they react to some development news for Martin Scorsese?s and Steven Spielberg?s next projects (12:00), and discuss the most anticipated movie of this upcoming summer (29:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are drafting again! Sean, Amanda, and Chris Ryan reunite and are joined by several special guests for a mega-draft of the best movies of 1999. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan, Mallory Rubin, Joanna Robinson, Van Lathan, and Rob Mahoney Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan to run through the 10 most anticipated movies from this week?s CinemaCon, which Sean attended (1:00). Then, they have a long?and, at times, combative?discussion about Alex Garland?s big-budget A24 release, ?Civil War? (44:00), delving into the film?s politics (or lack thereof), point of view, cinematic style, and more. Finally, Sean is joined by Garland to answer questions regarding some of those very things and where he sees this in the arc of his career, as well as discuss whether he will take a step back from filmmaking (1:50:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan and Alex Garland Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda revisit Denis Villeneuve?s ?Dune: Part Two? and assess whether the fervor for it holds up (1:00). Then, they share their 10 favorite movies of the year so far (25:00), including ?Immaculate,? ?La Chimera,? ?The First Omen,? and others. Sean is then joined by the director of ?The First Omen,? Arkasha Stevenson, to discuss the subversive nature of a her legacy sequel, how she got it made, and the career that led her here (1:15:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Arkasha Stevenson Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda dig into the successes and shortcomings of this week?s biggest release at the box office: Dev Patel?s directorial debut, ?Monkey Man? (1:00). They discuss, among other things, the unique action put to screen and the movie?s rumored behind-the-scenes studio management. Then?after casually losing their sanity for 15 minutes in the middle of the podcast?they discuss the best directorial debuts of the 21st century (42:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda break down a pair of big franchise releases??Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? and ?Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire? (1:00). They then share their thoughts on the new Steve Martin documentary ?Steve!? (30:00) and build the Steve Martin Hall of Fame (49:00). Finally, Sean is joined by the director of said documentary, Morgan Neville, to discuss picking a subject, building rapport with that subject, and how he chooses projects (1:40:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Morgan Neville Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a hundred years, when you and I are both long gone, anytime someone listens to this podcast, you will be alive again. Chris Ryan joins Sean and Amanda as they discuss Damien Chazelle?s 'Babylon.' (The movie is now available on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+, so you can stream along with 'The Big Picture.') Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean is joined by Chris Ryan to briefly discuss ?Immaculate,? the new Sydney Sweeney nun horror movie, before digging into Jake Gyllenhaal?s ?Road House? remake (1:00). Then, Sean and Chris explore a new niche subgenre they?ve invented: junk fights (32:00). Finally, Sean is joined by ?Immaculate? director Michael Mohan to discuss working in the genre, working with Sweeney, and how he hopes to build on this film going forward (1:08:00). Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Chris Ryan and Michael Mohan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are drafting again! Sean, Amanda, and Chris Ryan reunite for a draft of the best movies of 1977?the year of Chris?s birth and a compelling year for many of our most iconic directors. John Cassavetes on TV sucking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePptcNqXRJA Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda discuss a recent run of positive 2025 movie news (1:00) before digging into Rose Glass?s second feature, ?Love Lies Bleeding? (20:00). They take stock of Kristen Stewart?s unique movie star presence, discuss Glass?s genre command and audacious screenwriting, and praise Katy O?Brian?s wonderfully physical and emotional performance. Then, they run down a list of films they?re calling the 21st Century Noir Movie Canon (36:00). Finally, Sean is joined by Glass to discuss the production of ?Love Lies Bleeding,? working with a star like Stewart, why she set the film in America, how Ed Harris became involved in the project, and more (53:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Rose Glass Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Joanna Robinson to briefly discuss ?Dune: Part Two? and other way-too-early contenders for the 2025 Oscars (1:00). Then, they open the mailbag to answer your questions about ?Oppenheimer,? Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, ?Rango,? Bradley Cooper, ?The Holdovers,? and more (37:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Joanna Robinson Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda give their immediate reactions to the 96th Academy Awards, which were largely dominated by Christopher Nolan and ?Oppenheimer.? They appreciate Jimmy Kimmel?s hosting, admire a barn-burning performance of ?I?m Just Ken? by Ryan Gosling, analyze a surprising Emma Stone victory over Lily Gladstone, discuss the increasingly international voting body of the Academy, note the continued cultural power of 'Barbie' (despite winning very little at the awards), and wonder whether this year is a one-off or whether it portends the Oscars telecast making a sustained comeback. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda make their final predictions for who will (and who should) win in every category at the 2024 Academy Awards. They discuss whether or not ?Oppenheimer? and Christopher Nolan will run the table as expected, who will come out on top in a neck-and-neck Best Actress race, whether any major contenders will go home empty-handed, and more. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by New York Times film critic Wesley Morris to hand out The Big Picture?s very own Alternative Oscars (32:00). They've included a handful of categories they?ve invented, as well as alternative nominees and winners in the major Academy Awards categories. Before digging into this exercise, they open by talking about ?Dune: Part Two,? as well as the state of ?Oppenheimer? and director Christopher Nolan as overwhelming Oscar front-runners (1:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Wesley Morris Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan to discuss the massively anticipated Denis Villeneuve epic, ?Dune: Part Two.? The trio discuss the scope of the film, the fan fervor, the movie star performances it centers, and more (1:00). Then, they discuss Villeneuve?s most successful film entries up to this point and decide where ?Dune: Part Two? slots in among his best achievements (1:20:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda open the show by discussing the SAG Awards and highlight the Netflix streaming experience, Lily Gladstone?s win for Best Actress, and the dominance of 'Oppenheimer? (1:00). Then, they create their final Best Picture power rankings (43:55). Later, Tom Oyer joins the show to help explain how the Academy Awards actually work and what the voting process looks like (1:01:44). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Tom Oyer Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Ringer contributor and beloved ?Mean Pod Guy? Adam Nayman to discuss ?Drive-Away Dolls,? the latest solo Coen movie?this time directed by Ethan and written along with his wife, Tricia Cooke (1:00). After that, it?s the first iteration of The Big Picture Book Club. Sean and Amanda dig into ?The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story,? what it reveals about the highs and lows of Coppola?s career, what it tells us outside of the already well-known mythology of Coppola, and?with ?Megalopolis? likely coming out this year?the ways it contributes to Coppola?s presence in the film zeitgeist in 2024 (24:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Adam Nayman Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It?s the most wonderful time of the year: Dumpuary! Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan to discuss the box office sensation of the year thus far, David Ayer?s politically charged action romp ?The Beekeeper,? starring Jason Statham (1:00). Then, conversely, Sean and Amanda dive (surprisingly) deep into what may be the worst movie of the year, the Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney superhero vehicle ?Madame Web? (31:00). They wrap up by running through some other dumpuary movies, including J.Lo?s ?This Is Me ... Now: A Love Story? (1:15:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda open by discussing the movie trailers that debuted at the Super Bowl (1:00), before digging into this past weekend?s biggest release: ?Bob Marley: One Love? (29:00). Then, they discuss one of their favorite movies of last year, the French cooking romance ?The Taste of Things? (39:00). Finally, Sean is joined by Tran Anh Hung and Juliette Binoche, the director and star (respectively) of ?The Taste of Things,? to discuss the unique challenges of making a movie so centered around cooking technique, and the ways they went about portraying the authenticity of love between the two main characters (1:20:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Tran Anh Hung and Juliette Binoche Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are drafting again! Sean, Amanda, and Chris Ryan reunite for a draft of the best movies of 1991 (1:00). Then, Sean is joined by master filmmaker Wim Wenders to discuss his new film, ?Perfect Days?; his return to a film set in Japan; how he looks back on his long career of making movies; and more (1:31:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Wim Wenders and Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda discuss the wildly unsuccessful elements of ?Argylle,? Matthew Vaughn?s meta spy thriller starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell (1:00). Then, they try to contextualize it within what Sean has dubbed "wink action"?a subgenre of action that rose around the turn of the 2010s and has finally started to peter out (44:00). Finally, Sean is joined by Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Arcel to discuss ?The Promised Land? and the key creative differences between making movies in Hollywood and making movies internationally (1:20:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Arcel Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean is joined by actor and physical media enthusiast Tim Simons to refresh their conversation on the state of Blu-rays and physical media in the world of cinema. Host: Sean Fennessey Guest: Tim Simons Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the 10-year anniversary of Philip Seymour Hoffman?s death approaches, Sean pays tribute to his favorite actor with an audio essay highlighting the ways in which Hoffman was sui generis on the screen (1:00). Then, Amanda joins to run through Hoffman?s entire filmography and select 10 movies to make up his hall of fame (10:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda open the mailbag to answer lingering questions about the Oscar nominations, including the growing fervor around Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig?s failure to be nominated for ?Barbie,? why ?The Iron Claw? received no nominations, which film could surprise at the awards, and more (1:00). Then, Sean gives a quick recap of what he saw at the Sundance Film Festival (1:13:00) before they finally do a full deep dive into Jonathan Glazer?s ?The Zone of Interest? (1:22:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda gather after the announcement of the 2024 Oscar nominations to discuss an ?Oppenheimer? runaway train, some disappointing and somewhat surprising snubs for Margot Robbie and ?Barbie,? and how the nominations circuit is much more of a known quantity than it used to be. Plus: waning momentum for ?The Holdovers,? growing momentum for ?Anatomy of a Fall? and ?The Zone of Interest,? and how ?Nyad? snuck into several big categories. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda predict the upcoming announcement of the Oscar nominations (1:00), before reviewing ?Mean Girls? (49:00)?a musical remake of the 2004 high school classic?and ?All of Us Strangers? (1:03:00), a heavily-tipped Oscar movie that is finally being released widely. Finally, Sean talks to ?All of Us Strangers? star Andrew Scott about what attracted him to this role, how he selects roles at this stage of his career, and the legwork that goes into building chemistry with costars (1:22:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Andrew Scott Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean, Amanda, and Chris gather to auction draft the movies they?re most excited for in 2024, including both Zendaya vehicles ?Dune Part 2? and ?Challengers,? Bong Joon-ho?s ?Mickey 17,? Francis Ford Coppola?s ?Megalopolis,? and more (1:00). Then, Sean is joined by first-time feature director Jake Johnson to talk about his movie ?Self Reliance? (1:17:00) and how he views it as fitting in the larger arc of his career on and off the screen. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan and Jake Johnson Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode audio from our live screening of ?Oppenheimer? at IMAX in Los Angeles, Sean is joined by cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema, editor Jennifer Lame, and composer Ludwig Göransson to discuss the making of one of the biggest and best movies of the year: Christopher Nolan?s ?Oppenheimer.? Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Hoyte Van Hoytema, Jennifer Lame, and Ludwig Göransson Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda react to a mixed bag of movie and awards nominations news (1:00), before digging into one of the year?s biggest movies not yet discussed on the show: Yorgos Lanthimos?s Emma Stone vehicle ?Poor Things? (15:00). They close by refreshing their Best Picture power rankings (:00). Finally, Sean is joined by Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes to discuss ?May December??the performances at the movie?s heart, the reception of its satire, rendering the recent past, and more (1:50:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda give their immediate reactions to the 2024 Golden Globe Awards ceremony, which turned out to be a massive success for Christopher Nolan?s ?Oppenheimer.? They also share their thoughts about the shortcomings of the television production, the other movies?such as ?The Holdovers? and ?Poor Things??that had successful nights, and what we still don?t know heading into full-fledged Oscar season. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Additional Production: Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda discuss the new release ?Society of the Snow? (1:00) before sharing their 24 most anticipated movies of 2024, including blockbuster releases like ?Dune: Part Two? and ?Furiosa? (12:00). Then, Chris Ryan joins to recount the plot of ?Night Swim? in a follow-up to the time when he and Sean explained the plot of ?Barbarian? to Amanda, who has not seen either film (1:08:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda give some box office thoughts from the last couple weeks, before honing in on two films in theaters right now: Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell?s sex comedy ?Anyone but You? (15:00) and the musical adaptation of Alice Walker?s novel ?The Color Purple? (49:00). They close by each sharing three New Year?s movie resolutions that relate to the show (1:04:00). RSVP for a chance to attend The Big Picture?s OPPENHEIMER screening at the IMAX campus in L.A. here: uni.pictures/oppenheimerbigpictureevent Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda each share five movies from the year that they feel were either under-discussed or underrated (1:00), before inviting The Ringer?s David Shoemaker on to dive deep on pro wrestling, the Von Erich family, and the way they?re represented in Sean Durkin?s new film, ?The Iron Claw? (28:00). Then, Durkin joins to talk about the unique challenges of recreating pro wrestling?s pseudo-reality in cinema, casting stars such as Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson, what movies he took inspiration from, and more (1:12:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Sean Durkin and David Shoemaker Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by The Ringer?s Michael Mann aficionado Chris Ryan to discuss one of the year?s best and most anticipated movies: ?Ferrari? (1:00). They discuss the successes and failures of the casting, how transfixing Adam Driver is at the center of the frame, where this slots into the Mann oeuvre, and whether it will (or should) be Mann?s last film. Then, they each share their five favorite Michael Mann movies (41:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda open the show by talking about their five favorite scenes of the 2023 movie year (1:00), before digging into one of the most exciting directorial debuts of the year: Cord Jefferson?s ?American Fiction? (24:00). They talk about the state of family dramas and satires as genres and how ?American Fiction? succeeds as a refreshing mix of the two. Then, Sean is joined by Jefferson to talk about the expected and unexpected challenges of directing a film when you have a background as a writer, the movie?s deep and wonderful cast, what kinds of things he?s gravitating toward working on next, and more (38:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Cord Jefferson Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda share their top 10 performances of the movie year, focusing on films that did not get as much attention in our top-five lists (1:00). Then, they dive deep into one of the biggest swings of the year, from one of the most ambitious directors we have working right now: Bradley Cooper?s ?Maestro? (33:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are drafting again! Sean, Amanda, and Chris Ryan reunite for a draft of the best movies of 2020. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Joanna Robinson to react to ?Wonka??what works, what doesn?t work, musicals in the 2020s, and whether a movie can subvert its early reputation as a meme (1:00). Then, Sean is joined by Jonathan Glazer and Johnnie Burn, the director and sound designer, respectively, of ?The Zone of Interest? (1:12:00). They discuss recreation in film, interpretive sound design, their other collaborations, and more. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Jonathan Glazer, Johnnie Burn, and Joanna Robinson Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean is joined by Andy Greenwald and Charles Holmes to revel in the top film at the box office, Hayao Miyazaki?s final film, ?The Boy and the Heron? (1:00). They talk about Miyazaki?s whole career, including their top five Studio Ghibli movies (41:00). Then, Amanda rejoins the pod for a detailed discussion of the 2023 Palme d?Or winner, Justine Triet?s French courtroom drama ?Anatomy of a Fall? (1:12:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Andy Greenwald and Charles Holmes Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda instantly react to the Golden Globes nominations and what it portends for the Oscars (1:00). Then, they are (somehow) joined by Julia Roberts (28:00) and friend of the show Sam Esmail to discuss ?Leave the World Behind,? Esmail?s adaptation of the Rumaan Alam novel. Esmail sticks around for an in-depth conversation about adaptation, set design, costuming, casting, working for Netflix, what?s coming next, and everything in between (48:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Julia Roberts and Sam Esmail Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda react to the surprise box office hit of the weekend, ?Godzilla Minus One? (1:00); share preliminary thoughts about ?Poor Things? and why it?s seemingly losing steam in the awards races (18:00); and then open up the mailbag to answer your questions on all things Oscar season (32:00). Finally, they update their Best Picture power rankings (1:30:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan and Adam Nayman to share their respective lists of the five best movies released in 2023, including titanic works from master filmmakers, blockbuster hits that captured the zeitgeist, and smaller movies that challenged viewers to consider their artistry deeply. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan and Adam Nayman Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Wesley Morris to unpack their feelings about Todd Haynes's ?May December.? They discuss the complicated nature of the performances, hypothesize its potential for awards season, and much more (1:19). Later, they talk about their shared love for the newest concert film, ?Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,? and highlight their appreciation for its impressive technical feats (55:13). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Wesley Morris Producers: Jack Sanders and Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda briefly share thoughts on Disney?s ?Wish? (1:00), before digging deep into Emerald Fennell?s ?Saltburn,? including its cast, its spotty plot, its relation to Fennell?s first feature, and more (5:00). Then, they share their top five ?big swing? movies (1:07:00). Finally, Sean is joined by ?Holdovers? director Alexander Payne to discuss reuniting with Paul Giamatti, casting an actor in their first role, the filmmaking style of the movie, and more (1:20:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Alexander Payne Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean, Amanda, and Chris explore the high highs of Ridley Scott?s ?Napoleon??in particular the battle scenes?while trying to sort through their feelings on why the movie doesn?t come together as a whole quite how they hoped it would (1:00). Then, they try to place ?Napoleon? in the historical context of ?great men? movies and share their top five in the genre (40:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda review two divergent releases from this past weekend?a continuation of the Hunger Games intellectual property, ?The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes? (1:00), and Alexander Payne's latest feature, ?The Holdovers? (30:00). Then, Sean is joined by writer, director, and actor Eli Roth (1:07:00) to talk about ?Thanksgiving,? his feature-length follow-up to the fictional trailer of the same name, which first appeared in the 2007 film ?Grindhouse.? Sean and Eli discuss Roth?s particular interests within the horror genre, the state of modern IP horror, and what he?s interested in doing next. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Eli Roth Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Ridley Scott?s ?Napoleon? hitting theaters, Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan to build the Ridley Hall of Fame, selecting his 10 films most worthy of preservation (1:00). Then, Sean is joined by filmmaker Errol Morris to talk about his new John le Carré documentary, ?The Pigeon Tunnel,? Morris?s interviewing style, how he chooses subjects, the overlap between documentary and drama filmmaking, and more (1:27:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan and Errol Morris Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by The Ringer?s Joanna Robinson to discuss the successes and failures of ?The Marvels? and what it portends for Marvel?s hopes to pull out of their relative recent tailspin (1:00). Then, Sean talks with ?Dream Scenario? writer and director Kristoffer Borgli about how he get his career kick-started, making films in the United States vs. Europe, and working with Nic Cage (1:15:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Joanna Robinson and Kristoffer Borgli Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan to discuss the trio?s collective favorite movie of 2023, David Fincher?s ?The Killer? (1:00). Then, Adam Nayman joins the show to give his take on ?The Killer,? the state of American auteur directors in 2023, and where the film fits into Fincher?s larger project (48:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan and Adam Nayman Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices