2026 is proving to be a summer movie desert with big tentpoles being few and far between but this week, we took in the biggest of the summer movies.

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as we talk The Odyssey and a few other titles.

• The Odyssey
• André is an Idiot
• 72 Hours
• Vulcanizadora
• Face/Off
• Zodiac
• Supergirl
• Jackasss: Best and Last
• Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
• The Invite
• Evil Dead Burn
• The Furious
• Camp
• Corporate Retreat
• Wasteman
• Her Private Hell
• Two Prosecutors
• I Love Boosters
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• AntiDiva: The Carole Pope Confessions
• Ladies First
• A Toxic Love Story
• Over Your Dead Body
• Apex
• “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed“

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00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
01:12 – The Odyssey
24:27 – What we’ve been watching
34:41 – Coming Soon
01:34:18 Closing thoughts & credits

It’s that time of year. We’re part-way through 2026, we’ve seen six months of movies and picked a few to praise above all others.

Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) share their top 5 of 2026 so far.

Steve’s Top 5

5. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
4. Backrooms
3. Tuner
2. Obsession
1. Listen to find out!

Melissa’s Top 5

5. Send Help
4. Backrooms
3. The Drama
2. Obsession
1. Listen to find out!

Bill’s Top 5

5. Carolina Caroline
4. The Invite
3. The Christophers
2. I Love Boosters
1. Listen to find out!

Marina’s Top 5

5. Obsession
4. The Drama
3. The Moment
2. Tuner
1. Listen to find out!

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:07:54 – Top 5’s
01:03:28 – Coming soon
01:12:35 – Closing thoughts & credits

It has been a mediocre few weeks in the movie sphere and things are not looking particularly good for the coming weeks – with the exception of one (perhaps 2) exciting titles.

Regardless, some of the team managed to watch the new releases. Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as we dig into the new offerings.

Also metioned this episode: Henry Cavill’s watch commercial

• Disclosure Day
• The Death of Robin Hood
• Leviticus
• Toy Story 5
• Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
• Is God Is
• Stop! That! Train!
• The Furious
• Girls Like Girls
• Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That’s The Weight of the World)
• Carolina Caroline
• Ladies First
• Fuze
• In the Grey
• Voicemails for Isabelle
• Faces of Death
• “The Boroughs“
• “Widow’s Bay“
• “Off Campus“

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

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:46 – Disclosure Day
00:22:42 – What we’ve been watching
00:58:04 – Coming soon
01:08:02 – Closing thoughts & credits

While the last episode offered up a plethora of goodness, we’re backtracking here with one (maybe two) really great new releases and a whole lotta not so good stuff.

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as we dig into the new offerings from the past two weeks.

Also metioned this episode: Keke Palmer & Sean Evans podcast

• Backrooms
• Masters of the Universe
• Shaman
• The Villagers
• Scary Movie
• Stop! That! Train!
• Carolina Caroline
• Pressure
• Office Romance
• Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
• I Love Boosters

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

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:45 – Backrooms
00:26:34 – Masters of the Universe
00:37:20 – What we’ve been watching
01:13:01 – Coming soon
01:20:01 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week, we roll out the carpet for some of the best movies of the year so far! Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) as we dig into a load of latest releases.

• The Mandalorian and Grogu
• I Love Boosters
• Marc by Sofia
• Mile End Kicks
• The Crash
• The Sheep Detectives
• Mortal Kombat II
• Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour
• Hamlet
• Tuner
• Obsession
• Sound of Falling
• Passenger
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
• Faces of Death
• Is God Is
• Power Ballad
• The Christophers
• Normal
• “The Punisher: One Last Kill“
• “The Boys“
• “Half Man“
• “Margo’s Got Money Troubles“
• “Rooster“
• “Beef“
• “Off Campus“

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

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:34 – The Mandalorian and Grogu
00:09:58 – I Love Boosters
00:15:17 – What we’ve been watching
01:06:57 – Coming soon
01:19:57 – Closing thoughts & credits

This episode was off to a great start. We’re missing Steve, Bill’s microphone wouldn’t connect and we had very few titles to discuss but worry not, we’re still here with fresh new content!

This week, Bill Harris (Letterboxd) Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) talk Hokum, The Devil Wears Prada 2 and a handful of other new releases.

Also one of Marina’s favourite things of the internet this week is Gener8ion’s “Storm starring Yung Lean“

• Hokum
• Devil Wears Prada 2
• Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
• Project Hail Mary
• Hoppers
• Remarkably Bright Creatures
• Andre is an Idiot
• Mortal Kombat II
• Lorne
• Forbidden Fruits
• The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
• Bring Her Back
• An Affair to Remember
• Voice of Hind Rajab

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

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:34 – Hokum
00:11:23 – What we’ve been watching
00:49:06 – Coming soon
00:58:36 – Closing thoughts & credits

We pushed this week’s episode so that we could catch up with David Lowery’s Mother Mary as it freshly opened in Canada this week. The question is: was it worth the wait?

Tune in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) unpack Lowery’s latest film along with a number of other recent titles.

• Mother Mary
• Apex
• Sweetness
• Wasteman
• Thrash
• Outcome
• Hunting Matthew Nichols
• Modern Whore
• Lee Cornin’s The Mummy
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
• Fuze
• Michael
• Deep Water
• Exit 8
• Normal
• The Christophers
• Apex
• Roommates
• The Drama
• 2073
• Crime 101
• “The Pitt“
• “Invincible“
• “The Expanse“

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

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:02:39 – Mother Mary
00:20:34 – What we’ve been watching
01:08:33 – Coming soon
01:23:02 – Closing thoughts & credits

It’s been a quiet few weeks on the movie front but the year Zendaya and RPatz takeover of 2026 is starting off strong with The Drama. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) dig into Kristoffer Borgli’s latest.

• The Drama
• A Magnificent Life
• Exit 8
• Pretty Lethal
• Alpha
• Fantasy Life
• For Worse
• They Will Kill You
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
• Caught by the Tides
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
• Cold Storage
• Redux Redux
• Caterpillar
• Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
• Dead of Winter
• It Ends

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:23 – Oscars discussion
00:35:22 – Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
00:40:50 – Project Hail Mary
00:51:29 – What we’ve been watching
01:30:22 – Coming soon
01:36:56 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week, we’re all about saving the world. Be it a Ryan Gosling saving the planet from out self-made doom or Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton saving humanity from Satan, the message is (essentially) the same: we’re fucked. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) try not to freak out about our impending end.

• Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
• Project Hail Mary
• The President’s Cake
• Sweetness
• Good Boy
• undertone
• Islands
• Reminders of Him
• Hoppers
• The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother Hillel
• Shell
• The Pink Pill: Sex Drugs & Who Has Control
• American Sweatshop
• Eternity
• Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
• Backspot
• Crime 101
• Soft & Quiet
• The Alabama Solution
• Relay
• Code 3
• “The Expanse“
• “Daredevil” S2

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

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:23 – Oscars discussion
00:35:22 – Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
00:40:50 – Project Hail Mary
00:51:29 – What we’ve been watching
01:30:22 – Coming soon
01:36:56 – Closing thoughts & credits

It’s been a disappoining two weeks of movie watching. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) warn you about a bunch of, generally, terrible movies you might want to skip.

• The Bride!
• Magic Farm
• Man on the Run
• Scream 7
• Videoheaven
• War Machine
• I Swear
• The Ugly Stepsister
• The Moment
• The Bluff
• Swallowed
• Stone Cold Fox
• Lurker
• Dreams
• Dongji Rescue
• Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
• Protector
• Hoppers
• “Paradise“
• “The Pitt“

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

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:16 – The Bride!
00:10:42 – What we’ve been watching
00:51:48 – Coming soon
01:03:50 – Closing thoughts & credits