Awards season is now in full swing as is evident from this week’s laundry list of movies. Join us this week as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) delve into some awards hopefuls including the movie of the week Hamnet.

What we’ve been watching:

• Sisu: Road to Revenge
• Wicked: For Good
• Train Dreams
• Rental Family
• Meadowlarks
• Zootopia 2
• Wick is Pain
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Left-Handed Girl
• Five Night at Freddy’s 2
• Jay Kelly
• Alpha
• Come See Me in the Good Light
• Regretting You
• Man Finds Tape
• Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
• Keeper
• Urchin
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• After the Hunt
• Inside
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• One Battle After Another
• The Trouble with Jessica
• Bugonia
• Monk in Pieces
• Sentimental Value
• Song Sung Blue

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:05:50 – Hamnet
00:17:35 – What we’ve been watching
01:41:15 – Coming soon
01:56:57 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) delve into two apocalyptic worlds: one which is completely new and interesting and another than was imagined by Stephen King decades ago and now feels dramatically close to reality. Listen in as we dig into Predator: Badlands and The Running Man.

What we’ve been watching:

• Predator: Badlands
• The Running Man
• The Home
• Bugonia
• Thursday Murder Club
• Eternity
• Keeper
• Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
• Who Killed the Montreal Expos?
• Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Frankenstein
• Die My Love
• You Were Never Really Here
• There’s Someone Inside Your House
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Ballad of a Small Player
• Good Fortune
• The Smashing Machine
• Riefenstahl
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
• Roofman
• Eden
• Being Eddie
• In Your Dreams

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:04:10 – Predator: Badlands
00:20:20 – The Running Man
00:29:31 – What we’ve been watching
01:28:33 – Coming soon
01:38:42 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) share some love for the Cinematheque’s 13-Hour Horror Movie Marathon before digging into a batch of new and upcoming releases including Guillermo del Toro’s higly anticipated Frankenstein.

What we’ve been watching:

• Frankenstein
• A House of Dynamite
• Good Boy
• The Long Walk
• Splitsville
• Sorry, Baby
• Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
• Dream Eater
• Anniversary
• Shelby Oaks
• Nuremberg
• One Battle After Another
• The Perfect Neighbor
• Singles
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Children of Men
• Hedda

Also mentioned this episode:

• Fred Kaplan on A House of Dynamite
• Technical advisor Dan Karbler on the realities of A House of Dynamite

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:35 – 13-Hour Horror Movie Marathon
00:13:13 – What we’ve been watching
01:01:05 – Coming soon
01:10:04 – Closing thoughts & creditsuction

This week, Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) catch up on a few weeks of recent releases while also counting down their top faves from this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival.

What we’ve been watching:

• One Battle After Another
• Deathstalker
• Orphan
• Our Hero, Balthasar
• Christy
• The Blue Trail
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Late Shift
• Obex
• Blue Moon
• The Things You Kill
• Lovely Day
• Young Mothers
• Nouvelle Vague
• No Other Choice
• Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
• Dance of the Living
• After the Hunt
• Father
• Young Blood
• Steal Away
• The Secret Agent
• Tron: Ares
• The Smashing Machine
• A Private Life
• John Candy: I Like Me
• Sentimental Value
• It Was Just an Accident
• The Mastermind
• Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
• Roofman
• Good Fortune
• Black Phone 2
• The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
• Weapons
• The Woman in Cabin 10
• My Father, the BTK Killer
• Maintenance Required
• Grand Prix
• The Perfect Neighbor
• Blue Heron
• Left-Handed Girl
• Wrong Husband
• Landmarks
• Modern Whore
• Pillion
• The Lost Bus
• Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
• Anemone
• A House of Dynamite
• “Mr. Scorsese“

Steve’s VIFF Top 5

1. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
2. Nouvelle Vague
3. Mile End Kicks
4. No Other Choice
5. Sentimental Value
6. If I Had Legs
7. Franz
8. The Mastermind
9. Blue Moon
10. Young Mothers

Marina’s VIFF Top 4

1. Blue Heron
2. Modern Whore
3. Christy
4. Deathstalker

Melissa’s VIFF Top 5

• Blue Heron
• Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
• No Other Choice
• Pillion
• Sentimental Value

Bill’s VIFF Top 5

1. Sentimental Value
2. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
3. No Other Choice
4. Tuner
5. Train Dreams
6. Decorado
7. Koln ’75
8. Nouvelle Vague
9. Cover-Up
10. Modern Whore and Blue Heron

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:09:09 – What we’ve been watching
01:33:00 – VIFF Top 5(ish)
01:36:24 – Coming soon
01:43:14 – Closing thoughts & credits

Join Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as they ramble on about this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival and some of the titles seen at this year’s festival, which continues with Festival Encores in November and December.

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:10:40 – VIFF movies
01:06:48 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week, Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website) share their insights on The Long Walk before we dig into a long laundry list of what we’ve been whatching where Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) chime in with a few titles before we move into a short list of Vancouver International Film Festival titles we’re looking forward to.

What we’ve been watching:

• The Long Walk
• Highest 2 Lowest
• Splitsville
• Honey Don’t
• My Dead Friend Zoe
• Him
• Big Bold Beautiful Journey
• Elanor the Great
• Lurker
• aka Charlie Sheen
• Spinal Tap 2
• Vice is Broke
• Manborg
• Blue Heron
• Modern Whore
• Weapons
• Midsommar
• History of Sound
• I Am Frankelda
• Space Cadet

Steve’s VIFF Recommendations

• If I had Legs I’d Kick You
• Blue Moon
• Young Mothers
• No Other Choice
• Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
• Sentimental Value
• Late Shift
• It Was Just an Accident

Marina’s VIFF Recommendations

• Decorado
• Blue Heron
• Nesting
• Peak Everything
• Magellan
• Honey Bunch

Melissa’s VIFF Recommendations

• Orwell 2+2=5
• Cover-Up
• Mile End Kicks
• Wrong Husband
• Meadowlarks

Bill’s VIFF Recommendations

• Orphan
• Sirat
• The Things You Kill
• The Love that Remains
• Sound of Falling
• Train Dreams
• Pillion
• Kontinental ’25
• Tuner
• Kokuho
• The Plague
• Our Hero, Balthasar

We can also be contacted via email – [email protected]

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:04:02 – The Long Walk
00:11:22 – What we’ve been watching
01:02:02 – VIFF preview
01:23:20 – Coming soon
01:25:46 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week’s episode is full of hot takes!

Listen in as Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website) Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) chat about Darren Aronofsky’s latest Caught Stealing, along with a batch of new and old releases.

We also take an early look at the Vancouver International Film Festival line-up!

What we’ve been watching:

• Caught Stealing
• The Pickup
• Fixed
• The Roses
• Scared Shitless
• Toxic Avenger
• Relay
• Ne Zha 2
• It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
• Ick
• Highest 2 Lowest
• Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy
• Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy
• Night Always Comes
• Mending the Line
• Nonnas
• The Thursday Murder Club
• Riff Raff
• No Country for Old Men
• Possession
• “Alien: Earth“
• “WWE Unreal“

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:04:05 – Caught Stealing
00:16:28 – What we’ve been watching
01:17:16 – VIFF talk
01:48:49 – Coming soon
02:03:53 – Closing thoughts & credits

The one where half of the team didn’t do the homework…

This week, listen in as Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website) dig into Weapons while Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) listen on the sidelines as the gents share insights into the best movie of the year.

What we’ve been watching:

• Weapons
• Dangerous Animals
• 40 Acres
• My Oxford Year
• Surprised by Oxford
• Fixed
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• Together
• The Bad Guys 2
• The Naked Gun
• Freakier Friday
• East of Wall
• The Shrouds
• Baby Assassins: Nice Days
• Nobody 2
• Sorry, Baby
• My Mother’s Wedding
• Happy Gilmore 2
• Ni Zah 2
• “If It Bleeds“
• “Project Hail Mary“

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:41 – Weapons
00:17:38 – What we’ve been watchin
01:03:56 – Coming soon
01:18:50 – Closing thoughts & credits

The time has come for our mid-year top 5 – or ten because we don’t follow rules!

This week’s episode kicks off with a little chatter about two new titles, Superman and Fantastic Four, before Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) count down their favourite titles of the year at this midway point of 2025.

What we’ve been watching:

• Superman
• The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Steve’s Top 5

5. The Wedding Banquet
4. Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
3. Bring Her Back
2. Sinners
1. **Listen to find out**

Melissa’s Top 5

5. Sinners
4. Bring Her Back
3. Eddington
2. Materialists
1. **Listen to find out**

Bill’s Top 5

5. The Wedding Banquet
4. Bring Her Back
3. Sorry, Baby
2. The Ballad of Wallis Island
1. **Listen to find out**

Marina’s Top 5

5. 28 Years Later
4. Sinners
3. Bring Her Back
2. Materialists
1. **Listen to find out**

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:03:35 – Superman
00:12:20 – Fantastic Four
00:32:39 – Mind-Year Top 5 (ish)
01:17:50 – Coming soon
01:26:19 – Closing thoughts & credits

It was a hot one this weekend and the crew was suffering from a bit of heat delusion during this week’s episode which makes for some… interesting takes.

Listen in as Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) chat F1: The Movie, Jurassic World Rebirth and a batch of other new and recent releases.

What we’ve been watching:

• F1: The Movie
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• The Seed of a Sacred Fig
• M3gan 2.0
• Heads of State
• My Mom Jane
• I Am Raquel Welch
• Copycat
• The 355
• Shark Whisperer
• The Ballad of Wallis Island
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Opus
• Kryptic
• Until Dawn
• KPop Demon Hunters
• The Old Guard 2
• The Shrouds
• “The Bear” Season 4
• “Squid Game” Season 3

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:02:16 – F1: The Movie
00:16:36 – Jurassic World Rebirth
00:32:39 – What we’ve been watching
01:23:03 – Coming soon
01:30:01 – Closing thoughts & credits