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Bryan and Anderson review Sentimental Value, Send Help, The Secret Agent, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, The Toxic Avenger and Stop Making Sense (from Matt Rixner). Then the boys honor a late great legend with Top 5 Catherine O'Harra Performances! Loaded for Bear New Promo Video! The Film Vault on Youtube TFV Patreon is Here for Even More Film Vault Anderson's new doc: Loaded for Bear Atty's Antiques Baldywood Newsletter COMEDY CONFESSIONAL  Listener Art: Eliza Milan Featured Artist: AIDS MONKEYS The Film Vault on Twitch Buy Bryan's Book Shrinkage Here The Film Vaulters “Kubrick is Everywhere” Shirt CONNECT WITH US: Instagram: @AndersonAndBryan Facebook.com/TheFilmVault Twitter: @TheFilmVault HAVE A CHAT WITH ANDY HERE ATTY & ANDY: DIRECTED BY A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Subscribe Atty and Andy's Youtube Channel Here THE COLD COCKLE SHORTS RULES OF REDUCTION MORMOAN THE CULT OF CARANO Please Give Groupers a Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Here Please Rate It on IMDB Here The Blu-ray, US The Blu-ray, International Groupers is now available on these platforms. On Amazon On Google Play  On iTunes On Youtube On Tubi On Vudu Loaded for Bear New Promo Video! The Film Vault on Youtube TFV Patreon is Here for Even More Film Vault Anderson's new doc: Loaded for Bear Atty's Antiques Baldywood Newsletter COMEDY CONFESSIONAL  Listener Art: Eliza Milan Featured Artist: AIDS MONKEYS The Film Vault on Twitch Buy Bryan's Book Shrinkage Here The Film Vaulters “Kubrick is Everywhere” Shirt CONNECT WITH US: Instagram: @AndersonAndBryan Facebook.com/TheFilmVault Twitter: @TheFilmVault HAVE A CHAT WITH ANDY HERE ATTY & ANDY: DIRECTED BY A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Subscribe Atty and Andy's Youtube Channel Here THE COLD COCKLE SHORTS RULES OF REDUCTION MORMOAN THE CULT OF CARANO Please Give Groupers a Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Here Please Rate It on IMDB Here The Blu-ray, US The Blu-ray, International Groupers is now available on these platforms. On Amazon On Google Play  On iTunes On Youtube On Tubi On Vudu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wagner Moura is not only the pride of Brazil, he's a first time Oscar nominee! He joins Josh to talk about his career, from telenovelas to NARCOS to his award winning turn in THE SECRET AGENT. SUPPORT THE SHOW BY SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS! QUINCE -- Go to Quince.com/HAPPYSAD for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Happy Sad Confused patreon here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! We've got discount codes to live events, merch, early access, exclusive episodes, video versions of the podcast, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jeff has some weird audio issue but powers through as the boys head way back to 1937! After a pre-show shot, a few mini-reviews to set the mood, some news about the DGA and declining industry-relevant jobs, the boys set up the year 1937- what was happening, what movies were popular- before a feature conversation about Leo McCarey's “The Awful Truth”. Stick around and hear why John didn't like the movie as much as Dave and Jeff! linktr.ee/theloveofcinema - Check out our YouTube page!  Our phone number is 646-484-9298. It accepts texts or voice messages.  0:00 Intro; 4:00 “The Secret Agent” mini-review; 8:06: “Avatar: Fire & Ash” mini-review; 10:01 Gripes & DGA/Streaming News; 22:43 1982 Year in Review; 36:58 Films of 1937: “The Awful Truth”; 1:07:56 What You Been Watching?; 1:18:06 Next Week's Episode Teaser Additional Cast/Crew: Cary Grant, Irene Dunn, James Cameron, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Robson Andrade, Wagner Maura. Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say Edited & Produced by Dave Green. Beer Sponsor: Carlos Barrozo Music Sponsor: Dasein Dasein on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H3GPgYigeKNlZKGx11KZ 
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0:00 SEGMENT 1: Remembering Catherine O'Hara, including her roles in Best in Show, Schitt's Creek, and The Nightmare Before Christmas13:22 SEGMENT 2: Remembering Catherine O'Hara continued27:14 SEGMENT 3: We review the movies “Mercy”, “Send Help”, and “The Rip”. Joey also chats about “Uncle Buck”, “No Other Choice”, “Combat Shock”, “The Secret Agent”, and his wild adventure trying to get home during a snowstorm.Keep up to date with 2 Rivers Comic Con, coming back to St. Charles in April 2026 https://2riverscomiccon.com/stay-in-touch/ Check out the ‘Justice League Revisited Podcast' with Susan Eisenberg and James Enstall at https://anchor.fm/justiceleague Thanks to our sponsors Historic St. Charles, Missouri (https://www.discoverstcharles.com/), Bug's Comics and Games (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070575531223)Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3Y0D2iaZl Patreon -   https://www.patreon.com/GeekToMeRadio Website -   http://geektomeradio.com/   Podcast -   https://anchor.fm/jamesenstall Facebook -   https://www.facebook.com/GeekToMeRadio/  Twitter -   https://twitter.com/geektomeradio  Instagram -   https://www.instagram.com/geektomeradio/ Producer - Joseph Vosevich https://twitter.com/Joey_Vee 

Star of The Secret Agent, Wagner Moura is hotly tipped to scoop one of the most coveted Oscars at this year's Academy Awards.

We’re back again! For our SECOND podcast of January! We’re just looking to do some clean up before we jump into our top 10 lists and the Oscars! Join Alex, Peter and myself as we talk about The Secret Agent, No Other Choice, Song Sung Blue, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Rip, Return […] The post Movie Movie Podcast #175: No Other Podcast appeared first on Movie Movie Podcast.

Helen and Gavin chat about Megadeth, Wonder Man, It Was Just an Accident, and The Secret Agent, and it's Week 33 of the list of Grammy Record of the Year Winners from 1991, which will be picked from Visions of Love by Mariah Carey, Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins, U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer, From a Distance by Bette Midler, and Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor.

This week, David begins what he claimed was seven consecutive weeks on the podcast by giving an overview of what he saw at the final Park City Sundance. He mentions Closure, I Want Your Sex, The Invite, The Shitheads, Rachel Lambert’s Carousel, Zi, Josephine and The History of Concrete (and didn’t seem to like too […]

On the day of Wonder Man, Marvel also gifted us with the teaser trailer for Daredevil: Born Again season two, which will begin on March 24. Our full cast of characters returns, with the teaser even showing Foggy Nelson, and debuts Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones in the MCU. The eight episode second season looks promising and we know a third season is already greenlit.Lucasfilm's first property of 2026 will be the animated series Maul: Shadow Lord. The show's trailer dropped online last Friday to acclaim from fans of Star Wars animation. The eight episode series will premiere with two episodes on April 6 and release two episodes a week leading up to the finale episodes on May 4th - a significant day for Star Wars fandom. The character of Maul debuted in The Phantom Menace and has a storied reputation through other animated properties such as The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.It's Mattel's next outing bringing toys to life on screen as the trailer for Masters of the Universe premiered a few days ago. The popular 1980s franchise is becoming lifelike through performances of Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, Jared Leto as Skeletor, and more stars like Idris Elba, Kristen Wiig, and Sasheer Zamata.Christina Hodson has been tapped to write The Brave and the Bold, an upcoming Batman film set in the DCU for DC Studios with Andy Muschietti set to direct. Hodson has several other DC credentials, having worked with Andy Muschietti on The Flash. She also penned the Margot Robbie-led Birds of Prey movie. Her other credits include the 2018 Transformers movie Bumblebee.Max Parker, star of the Netflix series Boots, has joined the cast of Prime Video's God of War adaptation series. Parker will play Heimdall who first appeared in the second God of War game, God of War Ragnarök, as an antagonist.Oscar nominations have been announced and Ryan Coogler's Sinners set a record with 16 total nominations. Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another followed with 13 nominations. Warner Bros. scored 30 nominations in total, tying its record number of nominations set in 2005. Indie distributor Neon and streamer Netflix had 18 noms each, while Focus Features had 13 and A24 had 11. Netflix's Frankenstein, A24's Marty Supreme and Neon's Sentimental Value all garnered nine nominations, while Focus' Hamnet had eight. All are in the marquee Best Picture race joining Sinners, One Battle, Focus' Bugonia, Apple's F1, Neon's The Secret Agent and Netflix's Train Dreams.Illumination and Nintendo's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will now open on Wednesday, April 1 instead of April 3. Illumination also revealed an extended teaser trailer that features the first look at Yoshi.A massive winter storm impacting much of the U.S. is taking a toll on the domestic box office as numerous communities and cities advised citizens to stay home, and more than 400 hundred theaters closed. Overall revenue is expected to fall to the lowest point of the year to date. The weekend's winner is new thriller Mercy, starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson. On Saturday, MGM Amazon Studios reported an estimated $12.6 million opening before the extent of theater closures was known. Overseas, it started off with a promising $11.6 million.AppleTV has renewed Shrinking for a fourth season ahead of its season 3 premiere this week.

Our hosts have thawed out enough from the weekend winter weather that hit Western NC to bring a review of THE SECRET AGENT starring Golden Globe winner & Oscar nominee Wagner Moura. Speaking of the upcoming Academy Awards, Alan & Chris review the lucky nominees and make early guesses as to who might take home the golden statues. A recommendation from our hosts in this episode: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Footcandle Film Society   

Write into the show at MidnightFilmSociety@gmail.com and @midnightfilmpod on Instagram, Bluesky, and Letterboxd. Subscribe on Pocketcasts, YouTube Podcasts, and Spotify. Rate and review it on Apple Podcasts. Tell a friend, family member, or stranger.David Erhlich's 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025: A Video Countdown2026 Oscar NomsWhat Damian's Been Watching: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, The Secret Agent, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Industry, Twinless, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Straight StoryWhat Derick's Been Watching: Avatar: Fire and Ash, Anaconda, The Secret Agent, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Mercy, The First Video Game, Stranger Things Season 5Most Anticipated Films Of 2026 (IndieWire List)Letterboxd Assignments: Damian - Bebette's Feast, Derick - Killer Of KillersNext Letterboxd Assignments: Damian - All About My MotherFor next time: Jan 30th Send Help, Iron Lung, The Moment Feb 6th - The Strangers Chapter 3, Pillion (limited release), TwistedCheck Out Derick's Socials HereCheck Out Damian's Socials Here

The late 2000's were chock-a-block with Winnie-the-Pooh projects.  In addition to this week's Hot Date 2017 film Goodbye Christopher Robin starring Domhnall Gleason, Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald, there was another biopic with Ewan McGregor, several animated features and numerous documentaries.   Dan and Vicky discuss the Simon Curtis directed biopic on writer A. A Milne's creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and the toll it took on his family along with some recently seen items like Primate, The Plague, The Secret Agent, and Harlan Coben's Run Away on Netflix. Our socials:  hotdatepod.com FB:  Hot Date Podcast X: @HotDate726

If there's one recurring theme each year, it's to expect the unexpected. "Sinners" earned a record 16 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. And then there was the blockbuster "Wicked: For Good," which was shut out. It was a day of extremes and surprises when the Oscar nominations came out on Thursday. In this week's episode, co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz talk about the biggest snubs and which films could dominate when statuettes are handed out on Sunday, March 15. And we wrap the show with the new "Game of Thrones" spinoff series on HBA, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." Complete list of 2026 Oscar nominees Best picture: "Bugonia," "F1," "Frankenstein," "Hamnet," "Marty Supreme," "One Battle After Another," "The Secret Agent," "Sentimental Value," "Sinners," "Train Dreams." Lead actress: Jessie Buckley, "Hamnet;" Rose Byrne, "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You;" Renate Reinsve, "Sentimental Value;" Emma Stone, "Bugonia;" Kate Hudson, "Song Sung Blue." Lead actor: Timothée Chalamet, "Marty Supreme;" Leonardo DiCaprio, "One Battle After Another;" Ethan Hawke, "Blue Moon;" Michael B. Jordan, "Sinners;" Wagner Moura, "The Secret Agent." Supporting actress: Elle Fanning, "Sentimental Value;" Inga Ibsdotter LilIeaas, "Sentimental Value;" Amy Madigan, "Weapons;" Wunmi Mosaku, "Sinners;" Teyana Taylor, "One Battle After Another." Supporting actor: Jacob Elordi, "Frankenstein;" Sean Penn, "One Battle After Another;" Stellan Skarsgård, "Sentimental Value;" Benicio del Toro, "One Battle After Another;" Delroy Lindo, "Sinners." Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, "One Battle After Another;" Ryan Coogler, "Sinners;" Chloé Zhao, "Hamnet;" Josh Safdie, "Marty Supreme;" Joachim Trier, "Sentimental Value." Original song: "Golden" from "KPop Demon Hunters," "Train Dreams" from "Train Dreams," "Dear Me" from "Diane Warren: Relentless," "I Lied To You" from "Sinners," "Sweet Dreams Of Joy" from "Viva Verdi!" Original score: "Bugonia," Jerskin Fendrix; "Frankenstein," Alexandre Desplat; "Hamnet," Max Richter; "One Battle After Another," Jonny Greenwood; "Sinners," Ludwig Göransson. Animated film: "Arco," "Elio," "KPop Demon Hunters," "Little Amélie or the Character of Rain," "Zootopia 2." International film: "The Secret Agent," Brazil; "It Was Just an Accident," France; "Sentimental Value," Norway; "Sirât," Spain; "The Voice of Hind Rajab," Tunisia. Documentary feature: "The Perfect Neighbor," "The Alabama Solution," "Come See Me in the Good Light," "Cutting Through Rocks," "Mr. Nobody Against Putin." Casting: "Hamnet," "Marty Supreme," "One Battle After Another," "The Secret Agent," "Sinners." Best sound: "F1," "Frankenstein," "One Battle after Another," "Sinners," "Sirāt." Cinematography: "Frankenstein," "Marty Supreme," "One Battle After Another," "Sinners," "Train Dreams." Original screenplay: "Blue Moon," Robert Kaplow; "It Was Just an Accident," Jafar Panahi, with script collaborators Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian; "Marty Supreme," Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie; "Sentimental Value," Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier; "Sinners," Ryan Coogler. Adapted screenplay: "Bugonia," Will Tracy; "Frankenstein," Guillermo del Toro; "Hamnet," Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell; "One Battle After Another," Paul Thomas Anderson; "Train Dreams," Clint Bailey and Greg Kwedar. Live action short film: "Butcher's Stain," "A Friend of Dorothy," "Jane Austen's Period Drama," "The Singers," "Two People Exchanging Saliva." Animated short film: "Butterfly," "Forevergreen," "The Girl Who Cried Pearls," "Retirement Plan," "The Three Sisters." Documentary short film: "All the Empty Rooms," "Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud," "Children No More: Were and Are Gone," "The Devil Is Busy," "Perfectly a Strangeness." Visual effects: "Avatar: Fire and Ash," "F1," "Jurassic World Rebirth," "The Lost Bus," "Sinners." Production design: "Frankenstein," "Hamnet," "Marty Supreme," "One Battle After Another," "Sinners." Film editing: "F1," "Marty Supreme," "One Battle After Another," "Sentimental Value," "Sinners." Makeup and hairstyling: "Frankenstein," "Kokuho," "Sinners," "The Smashing Machine," "The Ugly Stepsister." Costume design: "Avatar: Fire and Ash," "Frankenstein," "Hamnet," "Marty Supreme," "Sinners." About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is the retired editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. The show was named Best Podcast in the 2025 Iowa Better Newspaper Contest. Theme music Thunder City by Lunareh, used under license from Soundstripe. YouTube clearance: FV694ULMCJQDG0IY

It's Hollywood's biggest morning! Join Richard and Alison (plus a vacationing Producer Benjamin Frisch) as they pick apart the biggest snubs and surprises of the year: Sinners breaking the all-time nominations record! The Secret Agent breaking out of Neon's strong showing, the complete collapse of Wicked: For Good, and the surprise blockbuster pulling up the rear: F1, which finds itself among Train Dreams, Bugonia, Sentimental Value, and Hamnet in the Best Picture category despite being a car movie about Brad Pitt going fast vroom vroom.  Subscribe to Richard's newsletter, Premiere Party, and read Alison's work at Vulture. Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won't want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook!  Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, our Gabfest panel includes Steve and guest hosts Nadira Goffe and Laura Miller with a typically eclectic collection of topics. First up, Dana hops on the call to decode the unspoken truths and dream imagery of Kleber Mendonça Filho's film The Secret Agent. Set in 1970s Recife, Brazil and starring a very charming Wagner Moura, the film is a heterodox brew of political thriller, magical realism, and attentive character study about the everyday surreality of life under dictatorship.Next, it's back to Westeros with a discussion of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a Game of Thrones prequel set 100 years before the original show based on George R.R. Martin's fantasy epic. Grounded and surprisingly funny, don't expect dragons in this knight's tale.Finally, they turn to “Gluttons for Punishment,” a recent Vulture article by Lila Shapiro about UPenn religious studies professor Justin McDaniel using some extreme, unorthodox measures to get his students to finish books.In an exclusive bonus episode for Slate Plus subscribers, the panel talks to Laura about the secret pleasures of wood stacking as discussed in her recent piece “The Art of the Holzhausen.”EndorsementsNadira: Some melancholy shoegaze pop from Scandinavia, specifically the albums Goodbyehouse by Snuggle and Big City Life by Smerz.Laura: The novels of Robert Jackson Bennett in his Shadow of the Leviathan series including Hugo-winning The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption.Steve: The Substack essay “The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls Down” by Adam Bonica about the cost of American exceptionalism.And a bonus one from Dana: Pictures of Ghosts, the documentary by The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho about Recife, Brazil in the 1970s.--Email us your thoughts at culturefest@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, our Gabfest panel includes Steve and guest hosts Nadira Goffe and Laura Miller with a typically eclectic collection of topics. First up, Dana hops on the call to decode the unspoken truths and dream imagery of Kleber Mendonça Filho's film The Secret Agent. Set in 1970s Recife, Brazil and starring a very charming Wagner Moura, the film is a heterodox brew of political thriller, magical realism, and attentive character study about the everyday surreality of life under dictatorship.Next, it's back to Westeros with a discussion of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a Game of Thrones prequel set 100 years before the original show based on George R.R. Martin's fantasy epic. Grounded and surprisingly funny, don't expect dragons in this knight's tale.Finally, they turn to “Gluttons for Punishment,” a recent Vulture article by Lila Shapiro about UPenn religious studies professor Justin McDaniel using some extreme, unorthodox measures to get his students to finish books.In an exclusive bonus episode for Slate Plus subscribers, the panel talks to Laura about the secret pleasures of wood stacking as discussed in her recent piece “The Art of the Holzhausen.”EndorsementsNadira: Some melancholy shoegaze pop from Scandinavia, specifically the albums Goodbyehouse by Snuggle and Big City Life by Smerz.Laura: The novels of Robert Jackson Bennett in his Shadow of the Leviathan series including Hugo-winning The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption.Steve: The Substack essay “The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls Down” by Adam Bonica about the cost of American exceptionalism.And a bonus one from Dana: Pictures of Ghosts, the documentary by The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho about Recife, Brazil in the 1970s.--Email us your thoughts at culturefest@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On episode 327 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson, AwardsWatch Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello, and AwardsWatch contributor Josh Parham to discuss their final Oscar nomination predictions for the 98th Academy Awards coming this week on January 22. It's been a long run of this phase of awards season, which truly starts all the way back at the Sundance Film Festival last January, where potential contenders debut, to summer blockbuster, big Christmas releases, and the critics awards, guild awards, Golden Globes and our gut instincts guide us to where we land today. From One Battle After Another to Sinners to Hamnet, and the abundance of international contenders from Cannes and Venice like Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent, No Other Choice and more, we find some categories eerily settled on (like Supporting Actor) but more with so many possibilities and variables who knows who's going to get it right. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. You can also listen to it on our AwardsWatch YouTube page. This podcast runs 3h10m. We will be back next week to give our reactions to the 2026 Oscar nominations. Till then, let's get into it. Music: "Modern Fashion" from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), "B-3" from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

In unison, director Óliver Laxe & composer Kandang Ray have created one of the most intense and heart racing cinematic experiences in recent years with their Cannes award winning film Sirāt (winning the Jury Prize). Playing out like a modern version of Wages of Fear with a missing daughter and a rave in the desert supplanting that films explosive cargo, Sirāt is as intense as experience as any other that follows Luis (Sergi López) and his son Esteban (Bruno Núñez Arjona) as they ask a swathe of desert ravers where their family member is. Óliver throws viewers into the fray from the first frame, utilising Kandang Ray's thumping electronic music to provide a sonic backbone to the anxiety provoking experience. That's a tone that never lets up throughout the films 114 minute runtime, ensuring that by the time credits role you'll be pushing down an oncoming panic attack.For some, that sensory experience of tension driven filmmaking isn't exactly fitting with the idea of a 'good time at the movies', but Sirāt isn't a film that intends to make you feel good. Instead, Laxe is looking to expand upon the current state of the world, leaving just enough space for the viewer to draw their own meaning from the metaphor that Laxe and Kandang Ray are spinning.In the following interviews, Nadine Whitney talks to director Óliver Laxe about the landscape and use of music in the film, while in the second interview, Andrew F Peirce talks to composer Kandang Ray about building that sonic profile for the film. Both interviews were recorded ahead of the film receiving two nominations at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, picking up noms for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Score.Sirāt arrives at Perth Festival's Lotterywest Films from 19 January to 25 January 2026. It will receive a wider release thanks to Madman Entertainment from 26 February 2026.the Curb is a completely independent and ad free website that lives on the support of listeners and readers just like you. Visit thecurb.com.au/subscribe, where you can support our work from $2 a month. Paid subscribers get access to our monthly competitions, exclusive interviews and articles, and more. Sign up this week to be in the running to win a double pass to see The Secret Agent. Sign up for the latest interviews, reviews, and more via https://www.thecurb.com.au/subscribe/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're taking a trip to The Bone Temple this week on Breakfast All Day, but don't worry. Ralph Fiennes has great taste in music, it'll be super fun. Here's what we've reviewed lately: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE. This picks up right where Danny Boyle's "28 Years Later" left off in 2025, but Nia DaCosta's film is very different: thrilling and terrifying in its own way, but also more somber, but also funny ...? Fiennes is insane here. In theaters. THE RIP. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck lead an all-star cast as Miami cops whose team stumbles upon a massive stash of drug money in this twisty thriller. This is the kind of substantial, mid-budget action movie we used to see a lot of in the '80s and '90s. Streaming now on Netflix. THE SECRET AGENT. We knew we wanted to catch up with Brazil's entry in the Oscar international feature category, and this was the perfect time. It just won Golden Globes for best motion picture - non-English language and best actor for Wagner Moura. We admire it but don't love it as much as our fellow critics do. In theaters. Movie News LIVE! Always a good time on Fridays. Among this week's topics were Kathleen Kennedy leaving LucasFilm; "Dune: Part Three" and "Avengers: Doomsday" competing on Dec. 18, aka "Dunesday"; and Matthew McConaughey trademarking his famous phrase, "Alright, alright, alright." Thanks for being here with us on the three-day weekend (if you're in the U.S.)! Subscribe to Christy's Saturday Matinee newsletter: https://christylemire.beehiiv.com/

On a very special episode of Men in Blazers, Golden Globe winning actor Wagner Moura sits down with Rog to discuss his film The Secret Agent, including why being a football fan gives him an advantage as an actor and the national pride he feels in representing Brazil. Plus, Wagner reveals the role football plays in his life, his ultimate Brazil five-a-side team, and dives deep on the "Sad Escobar" meme.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with THE SECRET AGENT writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho on this week's episode of The Movies That Made Me! Catch up with the pod here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only one more week until Oscar nominations! And to prepare with some last minute prediction changes, Nick and Sophia are back to recap the Golden Globes and share the many guild updates that happened since the Critics Choice Awards. So sit back, relax, and enjoy as they debate Timmy's Oscar chances, Hamnet's surprise Picture win, the possibility for The Secret Agent to significantly shake up the race, and so much more! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky, and TikTok @oscarwildpodFollow Nick @sauerkraut27 on Twitter and @nruhrkraut.bsky.social at BlueskyFollow Sophia @sophia_cim on Twitter and @sophiacim.bsky.social at BlueskyBecome a patron and listen to more content at patreon.com/OscarWild Find updated predictions and merch @ oscarwild.squarespace.comMusic: “The Greatest Adventure” by Jonathan Adamich

Ryder C. joins Matt and Corbs to discuss "The Secret Agent," a drama film that uses the rythyms of historical research to tell a story about a man getting suqeezed by the military dictatorship in 1970's Brazil. It's a cool movie, scope it out.  Matt rec. Ryder's rec sounds cool but is hard to find on streaming. Perhaps you can take a journey and find it. Corbin reccomends a movie currently in theaters.  Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. We also got a Bluesky going. Our next episode is about RAN. Watch it here.

On the two hundred and eighty-fifth episode of THE THIRD ACT PODCAST, the crew are living their cram-American dream.Christian and Jericho burn the midnight oil to record the annual Cram Session episode where they discuss all of the 2025 films they watched in preparation for their upcoming Fav Films of the Year lists. It's a big one! Movies discussed on the show:HAMNET, MARTY SUPREME, WHERE TO LAND, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, RESURRECTION, NO OTHER CHOICE, THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE, THE HISTORY OF SOUND, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, WAKE UP DEAD MAN, THE MASTERMIND, UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, ROOFMAN, VULCANIZADORA, NE ZHA 2, THE ACTOR, SUSPENDED TIME, ARCHITECTON, THE BALCONETTES,  MEGADOC, THE HOUSEMAID, WHO BY FIRE, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, YOU BURN ME, ALPHA, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA, JAWS AT 50, THE ALABAMA SOLUTION, PEE WEE AS HIMSELF, A USEFUL GHOST, KEEPER, DICIANNOVE (19), RADU JUDE'S DRACULA,  COVER-UP, NUREMBERG, LEFT-HANDED GIRL, TO A LAND UNKNOWN, ZOOTOPIA 2, MOUNTAINHEAD, TOGETHER, SHELBY OAKS, SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANACONDA, THE GREAT FLOOD, ETERNITY, 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN, THE SECRET AGENT, PETER HUJAR'S DAY, LATE SHIFT, BLUE SUN PALACE, SONG SUNG BLUESubscribe to Jericho's Substack: symbioticreviews.substack.comKeep in touch with us on Instagram and email us anytime at: TheThirdActPodcast@gmail.com  

Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universesThe fourth Doomsday teaser trailer arrived today, showcasing Shuri as the Black Panther, M'Baku as King of Wakanda, and Namor overseeing his people. Far from the lush landscapes we're used to in Wakanda, the scene takes place in a desert and features M'Baku meeting Ben Grimm. The Russo Brothers Instagram account also posted today, clarifying that these are not “teaser trailers” as we've been treating them, but rather clues to the story. Netflix may be lamenting the end of their biggest hit, Stranger Things, but the streaming giant is still looking forward to its 2026 television slate. Netflix standbys The Witcher, Nobody Wants This, Beef, and Bridgerton, are all returning this year as well as many others. The Duffer Brothers may not be writing Stranger Things anymore, but they have three shows premiering instead, The Boroughs, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, and the animated Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85. At the 2026 Golden Globes last weekend hosted by Nikki Glaser, the big winners were: Hamnet for Best Motion Picture – Drama with Jessie Buckley winning Best Actress (Drama), One Battle After Another for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy with Paul Thomas Anderson also winning Best Director (and Best Screenplay) and Teyana Taylor taking Best Supporting Actress. Wagner Moura won Best Actor (Drama) for The Secret Agent, Timothée Chalamet won Best Actor (Musical/Comedy) for Marty Supreme, and Sinners took home the award for Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. The Pitt and The Studio won best TV drama and comedy series respectively ,and Adolescence took Best Limited Series. Amy Poehler's podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler also won Best Podcast.Disney has cast Australian actress Teagan Croft and Disney Channel star Milo Manheim to star in the live action adaptation of Tangled according to the Hollywood Reporter. Scarlett Johansson who was previously cast as villain Mother Gothel in the film has also exited the project due to scheduling conflicts and has been replaced by Kathryn Hahn.HBO Max has renewed Emmy award winning series The Pitt for season three. Season two debuted its first episode last week.Johnny Knoxville has confirmed that a new Jackass movie will debut in theaters this summer on June 26.AppleTV has released the first trailer for season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters which begins streaming on Feb. 27th.Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has confirmed that the anthology series will return for an 8th season at Netflix.A release date for Godzilla: Minus One sequel titled Godzilla: Minus Zero has been set for November 6th in North America, three days after releasing in Japan.Blumhouse has released the first trailer for the  horror reboot of The Mummy from Evil Dead Rises director Lee Cronin. The film will hit theaters on April 17.Amazon has tapped executive producer Anna Ouyang Moench to write and produce season two of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She has previously been a producer on Netflix's Beef and AppleTV's Severance.

THE SECRET AGENT director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down the movies that made him! Kleber is fresh off winning this year's Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film for THE SECRET AGENT this weekend. His film's star, Wagner Moura, also took home a Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Small Change (1976) The Secret Agent (2025) Bacurau (2019) *Walkabout (1973) *Wake in Fright (1971) The Right Stuff (1983) Don't Look Now (1973) Performance (1970) The Witches (1990) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Superman (1978) Star Wars (1977) Piranha (1978) *Fitzcarraldo (1982) Burden of Dreams (1982) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Blues Brothers (1980) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) Paris, Texas (1984) *The Beguiled (1971) The Beguiled (2017) Escape From Alcatraz (1979) *The Long Goodbye (1973) *Punch-Drunk Love (2002) McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) MASH (1970) Chinatown (1974) Boogie Nights (1997) Magnolia (1999) The Wedding Singer (1998) Happy Gilmore (1995) Assault on Precinct 13 (1975) Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) LA Plays Itself (2003) Pictures of Ghosts (2023) *Twenty Years Later (1984) The Big Shave (1967) The Longest Day (1962) Cleopatra (1963) Halloween (1978) La Jetée (1962) Green Vinyl (2004) *Gremlins (1984) *The Host (2006) E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982) Poltergeist (1982) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) *The Fly (1986) *Do The Right Thing (1989) Jungle Fever (1991) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Francois Truffaut Wagner Moura Udo Kier The Lord of the Rings franchise Pedro Pascal Enzo Nunes Nicholas Roeg Ted Kotcheff Philip Kaufman The Criterion Collection TFH Guru Roger Corman Klaus Kinski Werner Herzog Nicolas Cage The Cologne Film Festival The French new wave Don Siegel Sofia Coppola Clint Eastwood Geraldine Page Paul Thomas Anderson Robert Altman Elliott Gould Jack Davis Mad Magazine Mark Rydell Roman Polanski Adam Sandler The Cannes Film Festival Columbia Pictures Philip Seymour Hoffman Robert Elswitt Emily Watson John Carpenter Kim Richards Scream franchise Eduardo Coutinho  João Pedro Teixeira Martin Scorsese The Vietnam War Bong Joon Ho Jerry Goldsmith Steven Spielberg Tobe Hooper Dick Miller Polly Holliday Phoebe Cates David Cronenberg Spike LeeThis list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kleber Mendonça Filho joins the FIlmmaker Toolkit to break down the making of his thrilling, poignant, and playful drama 'The Secret Agent.' From his deep relationship to star Wagner Moura to the social commentary embedded in every part of the film, this is a fascinating deep dive into a very rich film. Subscribe to Top Of The Line - IndieWire's new newsletter about the craft of film and TV - https://cloud.email.indiewire.com/signup/ Listen to the Screen Talk Podcast. Every Friday IndieWire editors Anne Thompson & Ryan Lattanzio break down insider news from Hollywood and debate the latest films and series. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indiewire-screen-talk/id893977298 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're entering the new year, and as always there is hope that life will improve. But we're still left with the remains of the year that was. On this week's show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of 2025 films that made a number of Best-of-the-Year lists: Josh Safdie's "Marty Supreme" and Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent."

Today we talk about 12 fascinating movies from 2025. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer starts with the movies he still needs to see (The Secret Agent, Marty Supreme), the movies he felt were essential (Sinners, Mission Impossible 8, Cover Up, Sentimental Value) and what other 2025 movies (Highest 2 Lowest, Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Weapons) might say about our current cinematic moment. Craig is fighting the flu so he tries to keep everything mercifully to the point. Please let us know your thoughts and the 2025 movies you loved that you think we need to see by emailing us at: community@secretmovieclub.com

The world's most famous Brazilian actor reflects on why he once thought a screen career would be impossible for him, how the 'Elite Squad' films led to him playing Pablo Escobar on 'Narcos,' and how Brazil's Bolsonaro era impacted his career and inspired the film for which he was awarded Cannes' best actor prize and could land an Oscar nom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For episode 273, I'm joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This time around, we're deep into the precursors. We talk about the Actor Award/SAG nominations, the results of the Critics Choice Awards, as well as our final predictions for the Golden Globes. In terms of new releases, I discuss Primate (reviewed here), while Myles has caught up on Lilo & Stitch, No Other Choice (my review is here), The Plague, and The Secret Agent. Plus, in addition to your questions, we're looking at my end of the year superlatives (found here), alongside 2026 films to anticipate (the list is here). It's a jam packed agenda this week, that's for sure...As always my friends and faithful listeners/readers, I do hope you all enjoy the latest episode of the Awards Radar Podcast, our 273rd one to date (here's to many more). Of course, feel free to revisit the previous installments by clicking the Podcast tab (here) on the top of the page. Plus, listen to us on Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, and other platforms. More to come each and every single week, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you for listening! 

Join Alex, Peter and Tigs as they discuss Wake Up, Dead Man, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Secret Agent, Marty Supreme, No Other Choice, Hamnet, The Housemaid, Anaconda, Is This Thing On?, Sirât and more on this episode of the Movie Movie Podcast. Recorded on January 5th 2025. The post Movie Movie Podcast #174: Wake Up, Movie Movie appeared first on Movie Movie Podcast.

SECRET AGENTS IN FALMOUTH: ESPIONAGE AND UNDECIPHERED CODES Colleagues Sean Kingsleyand Rex Cowan, The Pirate King. By 1700, Defoe and Avery work as secret agents in Falmouth, influencing elections and intercepting mail for the Crown. Kingsley explains that Defoe later employed Avery as his enforcer while manipulating public opinion in Scotland. The segment also discusses an undeciphered code found in a letter written by Avery. NUMBER 3

Bestie, have you ever wondered if it's truly possible to build a high-performing real estate business without the "hustle" of cold calling or chasing strangers? In this episode, I'm sitting down with my real-life bestie, Lacea Grimes, who went from having zero social media presence to closing over 33 transactions in just two years using a simple "day in the life" framework. She's sharing how she overcame the paralyzing fear of being on camera and the exact mindset shift she used to turn her authentic daily routine into a lead-generation machine. If you're ready to stop being a "secret agent" and start attracting clients who already know, like, and trust you before you even meet, you need to hear Lacea's story!Links Mentioned  Video Editing Apps: CapCut and Edits (iOS/Android)Content Tools: ChatGPT (Used for hook generation and SEO)Rosemary's Course: Real Estate Bestie AcademyGuest Info: Lacea Renta Grimes (Search "Lacea Renta Grimes" on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram)Referrals: Lacea serves the Mansfield / DFW Metroplex area.Join us for the 40-Day Real Estate Bestie Devotional Challenge starting January 1st!

The untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.In 1943, the OSS-precursor to the CIA-came up with a plan to increase its support to the French resistance forces that were fighting the Nazis. To start, the OSS recruited some of the best American bomber pilots and crews to a secret airfield twenty miles west of London and briefed them on the intended mission. Given a choice to stay or leave, every airman volunteered for what became known as Operation Carpetbagger.Their dangerous plan called for a new kind of flying: taking their B-24 Liberator bombers in the middle of the night across the English Channel and down to extremely low altitudes in Nazi-occupied France to find drop zones in dark fields. On the ground, resistance members waited to receive steel containers filled with everything from rifles and hand grenades to medicine and bicycle tires. Some nights, the flyers also dropped Allied secret agents by parachute to assist the French partisans.Though their story remained classified for more than fifty years, the Carpetbaggers ultimately received a Presidential Unit Citation from the US military, which declared: "it is safe to say that no group of this size has made a greater contribution to the war effort." Along with other members of the wartime OSS, they were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.Based on exclusive research and interviews, the definitive story of these heroic flyers-and of the brave secret agents and resistance leaders they aided-can now be told. Written in Bruce Henderson's "spellbinding" (USA TODAY) prose, Midnight Flyboys is an astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

What's Up Cinemaniacs! Join Duane. Larry, Tyler, Manda, Alex, and Josie from the Cinemania World Team as they countdown their Top 10 Best & Worst Movies of 2025! Yes! The time to celebrate the movies that we loved and didn't care for has come! Our favorite and most hated movies of the year all ranked from 10 to 1! From Sinners, Frankenstein, and Secret Agent to The Strangers Chapter 2, Hurry Up Tomorrow, and War of the Worlds, it's time to talk about them all! Join us! Worst of 2025: Start to 1:41:00  Best of 2025: 1.41:00 to Finish Follow us: Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Stitcher Castbox Blubrry Amazon Music TuneIn Audible Follow Duane: Twitter Instagram  Follow Larry (Chilly Boy Productions): Twitter Youtube Letterboxd Follow Manda - Twitter Youtube  Follow Josie (Film Posers) - Twitter Film Posers Follow Tyler: Twitter Youtube Follow Alex - Twitter Youtube Cinemania World Merch: Teepublic

On episode 323 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson, TV Editor Tyler Doster, Associate TV Editor Karen Peterson, as well as AwardsWatch contributors Mark Johnson and Dan Bayer to discuss their favorite films of 2025 in part one of the AW end of the year show. As we are about to begin an exciting new year of cinema in 2026, we say goodbye to 2025 with our AW team's favorite films of the year. Instead of having everyone on one call together, the show is split up into two episodes this year, each covering a selection of the nine films the team loved the most. On this first installment of the end of the year show, the movies discussed were Sinners (Mark), Sorry, Baby (Tyler), The Secret Agent (Karen), Resurrection (Dan), and Hamnet (Erik). In each segment, each person talks about why they selected the film as their favorite of the year, as well as an in-depth discussion over the film. At the end, the team gave honorable mentions for other films that they loved that included One Battle After Another, Weapons, Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, Pillion, The Naked Gun, The History of Sound, F1, and many more. Please enjoy this wonderful part one episode to wrap up 2025. Thank you all for reading everything on the website as well as listening to the show this past year. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. You can also listen to it on our AwardsWatch YouTube page. This podcast runs 2h53m. We will be back soon with part two of the best films of 2025, end of the year show. Till then, let's get into it. Music: "Modern Fashion" from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), 'I Lied to You' from Sinners, 'Sorry, Baby (Piano)' from Sorry, Baby, 'Transfusão de Sangue' from The Secret Agent, 'Clamor of Time' from Resurrection, 'On the Nature of Daylight' by Max Richter, 'Silver Dagger' by Paul Mescal from The History of Sound (outro).

LexG with some new movie reviews for late December, including Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man with Daniel Craig, Timothee Chalamet in Marty Supreme, Jessie Buckley in the Oscar hopeful Hamnet, James L. Brooks' Ella McKay, and the Brazilian political drama The Secret Agent.

Boomer & Brandon discuss the Southeastern Film Critic Association's awarded films of 2025, starting with Kleber Mendonça Filho's period-piece political thriller The Secret Agent https://www.sefca.net/winners#/2025 https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 SEFCA's Top 10 Films of 2025 15:30 The Secret Agent (2025) 43:35 Best Actor 57:33 Best Actress 1:10:13 Best Supporting Actor 1:16:52 Best Supporting Actress 1:25:06 Best Ensemble 1:29:41 Best Director 1:35:54 Best Original Screenplay 1:42:27 Best Adapted Screenplay 1:50:26 Best Animated Film 1:56:53 Best Documentary 2:13:46 Best Foreign-Language Film 2:23:00 Best Cinematography 2:34:45 Best Score 2:39:52 Best Editing 2:45:07 Best Costuming 2:49:34 Best Young Performer

Joe Escalante's weekly plunge into the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe bids adieu to Brigette Bardot, who passed away at 91 today. Joe saw three movies over the holidays... and none of them were the SpongeBob Movie... He saw Anaconda and was thrilled by the performances from Jack Black and Paul Rudd. Also, Marty Supreme was a great film... even if you don't like movies about ping-pong hustlers in New York!!! Jow was blown away by the performance of Kevin O'Leary... That's right, Shark Tank Kevin O'Leary. Joe saw the Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent. He saw it so that we don't have to... In celebs behaving badly... Tyler Perry got hit again with a sexual harassment accusation. We'll keep following that story as it develops.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep 358: Allison and Meredith discuss the legacy of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, Marty Supreme (no spoilers), The Secret Agent, Wake Up Dead Man, Hedda, Wild Zero, and Ball of Fire Fan of the show? Support Light Treason News today! Sign up at lighttreason.news or patreon.com/allisonkilkenny. Or rate/review/subscribe and tell a friend! It's a free way to help the show.

Nick teams up with film critics Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy for an expanded round of movie talk as the year end release rush hits full speed. They dig into a packed slate that includes the newest chapter in James Cameron's Avatar saga, Timothée Chalamet's latest turn in Marty Supreme, and Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson fronting a Neil Diamond tribute band in Song Sung Blue. The conversation also covers Will Arnett as a down-on-his-luck stand-up comic in Is This Thing On?, Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid, and the Brazilian thriller The Secret Agent, with a few more titles folded in along the way. With so many major releases landing at once, the discussion stretches out and takes its time, offering thoughtful reactions and plenty of back and forth between three longtime critics who know each other's tastes well. Esmeralda sits this one out, but the movie talk more than fills the space as the holiday film season kicks into high gear. [Ep 413]

SEASON 2 - EPISODE 172 - Kleber Mendonça Filho - Writer / Director In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho (THE SECRET AGENT, BACURAU, NEIGHBORING SOUNDS). Kleber was born in the northeastern region of Brazil, in the city of Recife, and many of his films take place in the city and surrounding areas. We reflect on the influence of Brazilian history and politics in his work, and we learn how Kleber generally approaches creating his movies set in Brazilian society. We  also discuss his latest film, THE SECRET AGENT, and the choices he made for telling a story set during Brazil's military dictatorship in the 1970s. Kleber also breaks down the making of his feature debut, NEIGHBORING SOUNDS, revealing the influence of DO THE RIGHT THING and the real life history behind the events within the film. Additionally, we learn how a younger Kleber balanced his duties as a film critic with pursuing his own filmmaking career, and Kleber shares what his current day-job is. - Recommended Viewing: THE SECRET AGENT, BACURAU, NEIGHBORING SOUNDS - This episode is sponsored by Aputure

Every year, we like to take a moment to look back and spotlight a few favorite films we didn't have time to talk about. Today, we're making recommendations for great movies we missed in 2025 including The Secret Agent, Come See Me In the Good Light, Cactus Pears, and 100 Nights of Hero.Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com/nprpopcultureLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Sean and Amanda are joined by Joanna Robinson on today's show to cover Chloe Zhao's adaptation of ‘Hamnet,' starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. They unpack their complicated feelings by highlighting the film's incredible emotional power, and also criticize aspects they found totally confounding (12:28). Next, they briefly discuss Kleber Mendonça Filho's ‘The Secret Agent' and celebrate Wagner Moura's wonderful performance at the center of the film (48:46). Then, they share their individual top 10 favorite performances of 2025 (55:47). Finally, Sean is joined by Mendonça Filho to explain how some fiction work can discover even more truth than documentary, his thought process behind utilizing split diopter shots, and why he wrote the lead role of the movie specifically for Moura (1:45:46). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Joanna Robinson Producer: Jack Sanders Shopping. Streaming. Celebrating. It's on Prime. A State Farm agent can help you choose the coverage you need. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We remember guitarist, songwriter, and producer Steve Cropper, who helped create the Memphis soul sound of the ‘60s and ‘70s. He died this week at age 84. Stax Records produced soul hits by Booker T. & the M.G.s, Sam & Dave, Isaac Hayes, and more. Cropper spoke with Terry Gross in 1990 about how he became part of the house rhythm section, and went on to help write hits for Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett.  Also, we remember the celebrated English playwright Tom Stoppard, who was considered a giant of theatre. He died at age 88. Stoppard wrote ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' and ‘The Real Thing,' and the screenplays for ‘Empire of the Sun' and ‘Shakespeare in Love.'Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead pays tribute to jazz organist Jimmy Smith, and John Powers reviews the new Brazilian film ‘The Secret Agent.'Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy