Hard to believe that January has come and gone but then again, looking at this month’s releases, there is little to get excited about.

And then in waltzes Sam Raimi with his perennial mix of laughs and _________ – in the case of Send Help, comedy and survival thriller. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) dig into this and a number of other films we’ve been seeing of late.

• Send Help
• Man Finds Tape
• Pretty Thing
• Regretting You
• People We Meet on Vacation
• Primate
• Father Mother Sister Brother
• Tropic Thunder
• Is This Thing On?
• A House of Dynamite
• Night Patrol
• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• The Rip
• The Voice of Hind Rajab
• Mercy
• Return to Silent Hill
• H is for Hawke
• Whistle
• The Surrender
• Iron Lung
• Shelter
• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
• Mother of Flies
• The Mother and the Bear
• Dust Bunny
• Together
• Relay
• Secret Mall Aprartment
• Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
• “Drops of God“
• “WWE Unreal“
• “Wonder Man“
• “The Beauty“
• “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms“

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:37 – Send Help
00:19:01 – What we’ve been watching
01:12:36 – Coming soon
01:22:31 – Closing thoughts & credits

The time is here! Ready or not, the ATC crew is counting down our favourite films of 2025!

Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) unveil their lists, some honorable mentions, and perhaps some of the worst movies we saw this year.

Steve’s Top 5

5. Sorry, Baby
4. One Battle After Another
3. Bugonia
2. Train Dreams
1. **Listen to find out**

Melissa’s Top 5

5. Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
4. Hamnet
3. Sentimental Value
2. It Was Just an Accident
1. **Listen to find out**

Bill’s Top 5

5.
4.
3.
2.
1. **Listen to find out**

Marina’s Top 5

5. Sinners
4. Die My Love
3. Warfare
2. Train Dreams
1. **Listen to find out**

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:08:10 – Top 10 Lists
01:33:23 – Coming soon
01:42:47 – Closing thoughts & credits

Happy New Year!

In the first episode of the 2026 season, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) catch up on a the final batch of awards hopefuls, including the very buzzy Marty Supreme, as well as the cultural milestone that is the “Stranger Things” finale.

What we’ve been watching:

• Marty Supreme
• “Stranger Things 5: The Finale“
• Train Dreams
• The Testament of Ann Lee
• Rental Family
• It Was Just an Accident
• Cover-Up
• Is This Thing On?
• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
• Scarlet
• Dead Man’s Wire
• The Luckiest Man in America
• Anaconda
• The Rule of Jenny Pen
• We Bury the Dead
• Frewaka
• Die My Love
• Honey Don’t
• The Great Flood
• Mile End Kicks
• Zodiac Killer Project
• “Pluribus“
• “Severance“

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:04:09 – Marty Supreme
00:19:37 – “Stranger Things” Finale
00:29:04 – What we’ve been watching
01:14:40 – Coming soon
01:23:23 – Closing thoughts & credits

In this special holiday episode of the podcast, the last of 2025 no less, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) check in to talk about some of the final releases of the year, including a very special rant from our very own Bill.

What we’ve been watching:

• Dust Bunny
• Beast of War
• Oh. What. Fun.
• Silent Night, Deadly Night
• Song Sung Blue
• Avatar: Fire & Ash
• The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
• The Housemaid
• Predators
• Ella McKay
• Sisu: Road to Revenge
• The Secret Agent
• Wake Up Dead Man
• Nobu
• The Woman in Cabin 10
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Die My Love
• The Chronology of Water
• Rebuilding
• Lilly
• Ex-Husbands
• No Other Choice
• Keeper

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:06:10 – What we’ve been watching
01:18:08 – Coming soon
01:30:41 – Closing thoughts & credits

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

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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