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Oscar Race Checkpoint returns with a big Awards News segment covering the EFA & BIFA noms, changes from SAG & Critics Choice, an added Gotham Tribute that we called +++ Governor's Awards and campaign talk. Then we enjoyed a big What We're Watching segment covering Nouvelle Vague, Ballad of a Small Player, House of Dynamite, Die My Love, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Christy, Nuremberg, Are We Good?, and I'm Not Everything I Want To Be. Finally, we close with a few trailer reviews including Scream 7, Michael, The Testament of Ann Lee, and Marty Supreme. AWARDS NEWS: EFA Noms: The European Film Awards could be a big day for Sentimental Value - 1:54 BIFA Noms: British Independent Film Awards & where we're looking for crossover - 5:26 The Governors Awards & Tom Cruise's Big Speech - 15:27 The Critics Choice Awards add 4 categories on E! - 20:09 The Gotham Awards add a tribute for Jeremy Allan White + Wicked/campaign talk - 22:44 The Actor Awards are the new SAG's - 28:06 WHAT WE'RE WATCHING: Nouvelle Vague - 30:32 Ballad of a Small Player - 34:47 Die My Love - 37:43 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - 40:40 A House of Dynamite - 42:56 Christy and the latest Sydney Sweeney drama - 45:07 Nuremberg - 49:31 Are We Good? - 52:14 I'm Not Everything I Want To Be - 58:50 TRAILER REVIEWS: Scream 7 - 1:03:56 Michael - 1:07:42 The Testament of Ann Lee - 1:09:30 Marty Supreme - 1:12:04 OUTRO: We discuss where you can find us on social media and the big green and pink movie that we may or may not be reviewing next. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar We also reminisce about our lost loved ones after AlsoMike lost his grandmother this week. R.I.P., Grammy. We love you.
Congress approves Epstein files release, new Diddy charges, Tom Cruise on the attack, Georgia coed sends temperatures soaring, in search of a Hooters vest, and the Italian Kardashian gets busted. Register to win tickets to Michigan vs OSU right here thanks to Hall Financial. Get some merch today before it flies off the shelf. ML Soul of Detroit has merch available as well. Hooters is basically dead in Michigan. We call the last surviving one in Saginaw in search of Drew's favorite vest. The US House of Representatives and Senate voted to release “all” the Epstein files. Louisianna Rep. Clay Higgins is the only person to vote against releasing the files. Hmmmmm. Donald Trump and Saudi Arabian Prince MBS hooked up today at the White House. There is a brand new criminal investigation against Diddy. We roll through multiple creepy moments from Sean Combs. Harley Summer (HarleyisBae) is the new ‘it girl' after the television caught a few seconds of her boobs at a Georgia football game. Her TikTok is dedicated to those boobies. More and more info is coming out about would-be-Trump-assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. Radiohead is touring once again. Sports: Dan Wetzel popped up on ML Soul of Detroit today. Sorry Drew… but James Franklin is the new coach of Virginia Tech football. The Detroit Lions are letting Drew down. The Detroit Pistons are rolling along. Cloudflare had an issue today and knocked a bunch of websites (including ours) down. Shedeur Sanders had his house burglarized during his NFL debut. Some Real Housewives were also burgled. Scientology: Danny Masterson is whining from prison. Scientology is on the down low recently. Suri Cruise is now Suri Noelle. Tom Cruise is bashing Nicole Kidman. Trudi has finally watched the Mission Impossible movies. Jeff Bezos is funding the Met Gala. He's also renovating a home for Lauren Sanchez. Reminder that Adolf Hitler had a tiny pee pee. Elon Musk takes a shot at back at Billie Eilish. Chiara Ferragni is the Kim Kardashian of Italy. Now she's in hot water. Charlie Saunders is a gross OnlyFans creator and it cost her dad his job for some reason. Kim Kardashian wants to be a lawyer so bad, but never will. We've received ANOTHER dash cam of an accident while listening to our program. Some people are saying there may be a warrant out for the arrest of Stuttering John Melendez. Olivia Nuzzi is finally telling her side of the story. She famously had a platonic affair with RFK Jr. Her ex points out that she also nailed the infamous Gov. Mark Sanford. Rap music is falling hard off the charts. “Principled individual” Nicki Minaj is speaking to the UN. Drew has found John Lennon music he's never heard before. There is a new John and Yoko documentary out on HBO Max. If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).
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We discuss the hottest topics from the week! Weekend Box Office Brainiac will be the villain in ‘MAN OF TOMORROW’ Elizabeth Olsen says she will NOT return as Scarlet Witch in ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ Tom Cruise finally has an Oscar ‘MARTY SUPREME’ Trailer ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ Trailer ‘THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS’ Trailer ‘THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE’ Trailer ‘TOY STORY 5’ Teaser ‘GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DONT DIE’ Trailer ‘MOANA’ Live Action Teaser ‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2’ Teaser ‘FALLOUT’ S2 Trailer Stranger Things 5 Training Tease John Boyega SAID … Ryan Coogler says that ‘BLACK PANTHER 3’ is his next film. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are set to write and direct a ‘STAR TREK’ movie. ‘Heat 2’ Casting ‘AVATAR: FIRE & ASH’ runtime has been listed at 3 hours & 15 minutes. Labubu Movie in the Works with Sony A ‘JESSICA RABBIT’ movie is reportedly in the early works. Join the conversation... FacebookInstagramTwitterTikTokYouTubeRate/Review/Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bethenny Frankel has realized she burned the wrong bridge, quietly begging Andy Cohen for forgiveness as BravoCon thrived without her. Meanwhile, Vanity Fair ignited industry fury by featuring zero women on its Hollywood Issue cover — a tone-deaf move insiders are calling “archaic” and “a slap in the face.” And Tom Cruise is privately livid over “fake” reports claiming he commented on Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s divorce. Sources insist the ultra-private star hasn’t said a word — and never will. Don't forget to vote in today's poll on Twitter at @naughtynicerob or in our Facebook group. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Where there's Smokey (Robinson), there's fire (nasty allegations). Dawn's interpreting dreams. The surveys have plenty of info about pets and Generation Z's dining preferences. Oh, and Zac Efron turned up at DWTS. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode of Health Youniversity, Dr. Susan Fox sits down with Chef James Barry—celebrity chef to the stars, founder of Pluck superfood seasoning, and Shark Tank entrepreneur—to discuss why organ meats are nature's ultimate prenatal vitamin and how to actually get them into your diet without the "ick factor."After 20 years as a private chef cooking for Tom Cruise, George Clooney, and Barbara Streisand, once he became a father of two young daughters Chef James became obsessed with solving one problem: How do we get the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet into modern diets when 93% of Americans are nutrient deficient?Discover why organ meats are more easily absorbed than muscle meat, how the theory of "like supports like" works in ancestral nutrition, why freeze-dried liver beats your prenatal supplement, and how one woman who had hemorrhaged and had low supply in two prior pregnancies then had no hemorrhaging and abundant milk supply after using Pluck throughout her third pregnancy.Learn about the neurolingual response—how your body's innate wisdom knows when to stop eating, why broccoli in 2025 has almost zero nutrients compared to 1960, and how to make organ meats as easy as salting your food.This episode is essential listening for anyone trying to conceive, is pregnant, or wants to optimize their own and their family's whole-body health through ancestral nutrition without cooking organ meats (that no one will eat).Shop with Pluck here. Use code HEALTHYOU for a 15% discount at checkout!
Our pop culture has become insipid. What is the difference between Tom Cruise and Glen Powell? Tom Cruise has darkness within him. Watching him is thrilling because you can see him struggling to contain it. Glen Powell looks at every moment like he's about to turn to the camera, wink, and try to sell you a protein powder so you can get as ripped as him. Jessa and Nico discuss the problems of Running Man (which are problems about a lack of real darkness), why Edgar Wright can never be Paul Verhoeven, and why our dark times deserve dark artists. Shownotes and references: http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com
'Ya verás' es el podcast de cine, series y entretenimiento en el que repasamos las novedades y estrenos en plataformas y salas, los temas de actualidad relacionados con Hollywood, la televisión y la cultura nerd. En este programa conducido por Alberto González, repasamos la actualidad de la industria cinematográfica y televisiva junto a Xavi Mogrovejo y Raquel Díaz. En este programa repasamos la taquilla de un otoño bastante pobre, aplaudimos el Óscar honorífico de Tom Cruise y os presentamos las críticas de dos de los grandes estrenos de la semana, 'Sisu 2' y 'The Running Man', protagonizada por Glen Powell y al que hemos entrevistado.
Dr Scarlett Smash and Dr Craken carry on their series about ocean science in the movies. This week they talk about Tom Cruise and "Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning". Contact info@absolutelysmashingllc.com for more information about sponsoring MCHH episodes Music credits By Jolly Shore Leave "Al For Me Grog (Trad.)" HandsomeForrune-FE (Adapted Lyrics by Taran Christen : Musical Arrangement by K. Ryan Hart) Represented by Rebellious Entertainment Dr Scarlett Smash Instagram Dr Scarlett Smash TikTok Dr Craken MacCraic Instagram MCHH Instagram MCHH Facebook Dr Scarlett Smash YouTube
MUSICWendy Dio—the wife and longtime manager of the late, great Ronnie James Dio—shared some incredible stories about Ronnie's career, including a wild "what if" scenario from his time with Black Sabbath on The Magnificent Ones with Billy Corgan. Dave Mustaine has an out-of-this-world choice for Megadeth's final concert. https://loudwire.com/megadeth-final-concert-space/ Congratulations to Disturbed frontman David Draiman and his new bride, Sarah, who were married over the weekend. https://loudwire.com/disturbed-david-draiman-married-sarah-uli/ ROCK BOOKS:Bob Dylan coffee table book of black-and-white drawings Point Blank (Quick Studies) publishes.TVDavid Letterman‘s next subject on his Netflix interview series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction is Adam Sandler. https://deadline.com/2025/11/netflix-my-next-guest-with-david-letterman-adam-sandler-1236618160/ Johnny Knoxville married costume designer Emily Ting on Nov. 16, and his friend and A Dirty Shame costar John Waters officiated the ceremony. https://people.com/johnny-knoxville-marries-costume-designer-emily-ting-with-john-waters-officiating-11850638 HGTV announced it was shaking things up for Season 7 of Rock the Block by adding a celebrity twist. The show's design pros will be paired with Hollywood stars in the upcoming season. https://entertainmentnow.com/hgtv/brooke-hogan-rock-the-block-hulk/ MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS:Ryan Coogler confirmed that Black Panther 3 is in development and will be his next film. https://deadline.com/2025/11/ryan-coogler-black-panther-3-next-movie-1236618702/ Tom Cruise received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2025 Governors Awards held on Sunday (November 16) in Hollywood, Calif. https://people.com/tom-cruise-honorary-oscar-at-2025-governors-awards-11850067 The next Costume Institute exhibition will examine the longstanding dialogue between fashion and the body it dresses. https://www.vogue.com/article/costume-art-is-the-first-exhibition-in-the-costume-institutes-new-permanent-galleries-at-the-met Check out the first trailer for the live-action "Moana". https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/moana-live-action-trailer-catherine-lagaaia-dwayne-johnson-1236428901/ AND FINALLY People are voting over at Ranker.com on the best late night hosts of all time. And it does my heart good to note that Conan O'Brien is whooping Jay Leno BIG TIME. AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Dave and Chuck the Freak talk about Princess Day, Dairy Queen rival files for bankruptcy, guy who broke his dong sent a pic, wife got husband birthday card that she didn’t read, potato bed hack, old lady leaving church ignored cop directing traffic and hit him with car, shots fired during jewelry store robbery, cop saved from his burning patrol car, loud music to get homeless to leave abandoned grocery store, reporter confronts restaurant about failed inspection, taking things from hotel rooms, doctor fixes cameraman’s tremors, Christmas-scented Dude Wipes, player banned for life from NCAA for betting scandal, most hated NFL teams, Lions’ sticky note guy, new sexual assault charges for Diddy, Tom Cruise gets award, Timothee Chalamet says Adam Sandler deserves Oscar, Kathy Hilton’s house robbed, celebs that came from nothing, man’s reaction to being chased by a goat, cop seen driving with his gun on top of car, Heigh Supremacist, flight delayed because guy smoked weed in bathroom, flight delayed after passenger smuggled meat cleaver through security, woman bough husband a look-a-like sex doll, kid stole car and drove home without his mom, guy approached pack of wolves at Yellowstone, photographer rented house on Airbnb and had $35k worth of stuff stolen, woman hears unexplained explosion noises, KFC Thanksgiving chicken dinner with gravy flight, Little Caesars contactless self checkout, and more!
Wally’s missed opportunity, Tom Cruise’s honorary Oscar, DJ Khaled’s watch collection, and birthdays! You can join our Wally Show Poddies Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/WallyShowPoddies
Buen martes con sabor a Lunes amigos, qué se compraron en el #BuenFin presuman. Hoy juega de nuevo la selección, ¿cómo creen que les vaya? Y el 'Chaco' Giménez anda de 'ojo alegre' con Fabián Estay... ¿Ustedes cuántos chiles de amor se comen, el 'Negro' dice que Tom Cruise varios y de una sentada. Y Maduro hace cover a Lennon, ¡rolón!
A major server in San Jose is down, so you might not be able to reach your favorite site. Roblox is introducing facial recognition to verify users' ages. Tom Cruise was chatting up Sydney Sweeney at the Governors Awards, but she's with a dude named Scooter! Real Christmas trees are in trouble. Are we using too much butter? Definitely not. It's the time of year for family and food traditions - to each their own. Ariana Grande hints at a third Wicked movie. Speaking of Cher, she and Ariana Grande are hosting SNL's final episode of the year. A week before, Josh O'Connor will host promoting the new ‘Knives Out' film with Lily Allen as the musical guest. A 2nd hand doobie smoke turns around a whole flight. Vinnie's telling the hang about a potato bed hack, and it reminds Bob of Burning Man. The conversation gets interesting from there. Death is not an option: Caterpillar or frat boy sheets. Let's talk about some successful stars who ARE self made: Viola Davis, Selena Gomez, and Cardi B. Just because they are self made doesn't mean Vinnie likes them. The live action ‘Moana' trailer is here! Childless? AI can help! Maybe it's better to have pretend kids. San Francisco needs to step up its sins. Ronnie Wood (of The Rolling Stones) makes art that's inspiring in an unusual way. There's so many ways to embrace going gray, but Vinnie doesn't want to be Santa Claus. Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany Mahomes are not good artists, but it's probably not the reason their relationship is on the rocks. Weird Al has announced a tour! Don't forget to watch ‘Planes, Trains, & Automobiles' for Bob's Movie Club! Vinnie's got a disturbing story about a real life Black Mirror episode. Plus, how old is that guy?
A major server in San Jose is down, so you might not be able to reach your favorite site. Roblox is introducing facial recognition to verify users' ages. Tom Cruise was chatting up Sydney Sweeney at the Governors Awards, but she's with a dude named Scooter! Real Christmas trees are in trouble. Are we using too much butter? Definitely not. It's the time of year for family and food traditions - to each their own.
We know the theme of the Met Gala, and Tom Cruise received an honorary Oscar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rebecca Ford joins Katey to talk about all the highlights of the Academy's Governor's Awards, where virtually every Ocsar hopeful was in attendance and Tom Cruise, now an honorary Oscar winner, was the king of the reaction shots. Then you'll hear the conversation Katey had live in Hollywood last week with Jenny Han, the co-showrunner of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which wrapped its three seasons with a bang this summer — though as you'll hear Jenny explain, the story is far from over. Subscribe today to Prestige Junkie After Party bonus episodes for just $5 a month. Subscribe to the Prestige Junkie newsletter. Follow Katey on Letterboxd. Follow The Ankler.
En 'Buenos días, Javi y Mar' de CADENA 100, el invierno se adelanta con una masa de aire frío y nieve en el norte, que baja las temperaturas. El AVE de Madrid a Barcelona busca reducir el trayecto a menos de dos horas, construyendo una nueva estación en Parla para conectar mejor Cataluña y Andalucía. El presidente valenciano en funciones, Ximo Puig, declara en el Senado sobre escoltas y llamadas no contestadas. Se debate la brecha salarial en España, que equivale a que las mujeres trabajen gratis hasta fin de año, debido principalmente al tiempo dedicado a los cuidados familiares. La ONU aprueba el plan de paz de Donald Trump, con satisfacción palestina por una posible fuerza multinacional y retirada israelí. Tom Cruise recibe un Oscar honorífico por su carrera. Se celebra el cumpleaños de Jose Real, se juega con los oyentes y se comparten anécdotas sobre no saber decir 'no'. Se escucha música de Justin Bieber, Daniel Powter, Lady Gaga ('Born This Way', destacando sus luchas pasadas) ...
'Buenos días, Javi y Mar' en CADENA 100 informa sobre la llegada de una masa de aire frío del Ártico, que baja las temperaturas y la cota de nieve a 600-800 metros. El AVE de Madrid a Barcelona reducirá su trayecto a menos de dos horas y se construirá una estación en Parla para conectar Cataluña y Andalucía. Se debate la brecha salarial de género, que implica que las mujeres trabajan gratis desde esta semana hasta fin de año, y que el principal problema es el cuidado familiar. Tom Cruise recibe un Óscar honorífico a sus 63 años, diciendo "hacer películas no es lo que hago, es lo que soy". Los oyentes comparten preguntas curiosas a la inteligencia artificial, como si Pedro Sánchez seguirá en la legislatura, cómo ganar discusiones, cómo eliminar "gastos hormiga" o sobre la clave del Wi-Fi del vecino. También se menciona el cumpleaños de Javi y que comerá fuera. La música incluye a Bruno Mars, Robby Williams, Aitana, Lady Gaga, Dani Martín, Golden, Katy Perry y CeeLo Green.Lo ...
2026 Met Gala will follow a new theme of costume art. La Police department is investigating BRAVO stars home being broken into, while the starts were at BRAVOCON. Tom Cruise finally has an OSCAR; he was giving one on Sunday during the Governors ball. Make sure to also keep up to date with ALL our podcasts we do below that have new episodes every week: The Thought Shower Let's Get Weird Crisis on Infinite Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Yordi Rosado analiza la increíble carrera de Tom Cruise y su reciente entrega del premio Oscar.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"This is not Mission: Difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's Mission: Impossible." Tom Cruise returned as super spy Ethan Hunt in the top worldwide grossing film of 2000, and Sarah & Joe are taking it to task! Listen as they breakdown the stark differences between the first two films in the long running series, the carousel of directors that were employed under the M:I banner, how the Lord of the Rings and X-Men franchises were affected by this movie's extensive reshoots and Eyes Wide Shut's epic shooting schedule, and dig deep into the person most victimized by M:I 2 - Dougray Scott.
The first teaser trailer for the upcoming Moana live action movie has been released, and let's just say the fan reaction has been… intense.And after a bit of a red carpet draught, Hollywood’s biggest stars have turned out some looks at the Governor’s Awards, so let's rate the best and worst looks. Plus, Tom Cruise finally won an Oscar (kind of), but that’s not why he’s going viral. And, the press tour for Wicked: For Good is in full swing, but do you feel like you’ve really seen nothing? Yes there’s a reason for that.LISTEN NEXT Ahead of the new Wicked movie... check out our Brutally Honest Review of the last one on Apple or Spotify. And if you can't get enough Tom Cruise lore listen to The Worst Thing Tom Cruise Ever Did To Katie Holmes on Apple or Spotify. THE END BITS Our podcast Watch Party is out now, listen on Apple or Spotify. Support independent women's media Follow us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. And subscribe to our Youtube channel. Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia... here. Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here. Do you have feedback or a topic you want us to discuss on The Spill? Send us a voice message, or send us an email thespill@mamamia.com.au and we'll come back to you ASAP! CREDITS Hosts: Laura Brodnik and Ksenija Lukich Executive Producer: Monisha Iswaran Audio Producer: Scott StronachBecome a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On today's show: Bill isn't motivated to put up any Christmas decorations yet. Bill is contemplating canceling Netflix and subscribing to Peacock but Alyssa wants him to do it illegally. Good Vibes at 6:55! Someone broke into Shedeur Sanders' house during the Browns game on Sunday. The Group Chat: Madison is secretly back together with her ex and doesn't want to bring him home for Thanksgiving. Alyssa's College of Knowledge! Tom Cruise is getting roasted for his honorary Oscar speech. Plus, what is the most unusual question your kid has ever asked you?
James Cameron had his Titanic cast freezing their bits off in real ice water and turns out their screams were very real. Then we found out a new study reckons teen binge drinkers end up earning more which feels like the most unhinged career advice ever printed. Glossy land gave us everything from Cynthia and Ariana losing their voices to Tom Cruise accidentally cosplaying Nicole Kidman’s AMC ad. We checked out the Moana live action tease and even the Oasis ticket prices got a roast. Plus the bloke who rushed Ariana at the Wicked premiere is now in the slammer and we had plenty of questions about prison life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kate’s come armed with a list of fashion mistakes men make that instantly give women the ick and sorry, Fitzy, but the skinny jeans have got to go. Luckily Fitzy’s confidence is soaring anyway, because people keep mistaking his social account for an NFL player with the same name who’s currently dominating the field. Plus, Tom Cruise has finally won his first Oscar, and his acceptance speech had unexpected shout-outs with some familiar names. Fitzy and Kate face off in Brand Man with a controversial finish, and Wippa dives into the age-old debate of who should do which chores at home…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
El sábado pasado fue la marcha de la Generación en Z, en la que miles de personas salieron a las calles para exigir seguridad en el país y justicia por el asesinato de Carlos Manzo. Sin embargo, no todo fue pacífico, con enfrentamientos entre manifestantes y policías en el Zócalo de la CDMX. Ahora hay 18 personas detenidas y siete policías fueron destituidos temporalmente. En una movida que sorprendió a más de uno, el presidente Donald Trump publicó en su red Truth Social que los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes deberían votar a favor de la publicación de los “Epstein files”. Además… Un influencer y otro joven fueron asesinados a balazos en Culiacán; Habrá segunda vuelta en las elecciones presidenciales de Chile; La ex primera ministra de Bangladesh fue condenada a muerte; Ya tenemos tema para la Met Gala 2026; Tom Cruise finalmente recibió un Oscar; Paul McCartney lanzará un temazo con puro silencio. Y para #ElVasoMedioLleno… Un estudio publicado reveló que hablar dos o más idiomas podría hacerte envejecer más lento. Para enterarte de más noticias como estas, síguenos en redes sociales. Estamos en todas las plataformas como @telokwento. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lil Nas X faces a judge after allegedly charging at cops while fully naked on the streets of LA. His response today. Then, hours after Kevin Federline's exclusive, Britney Spears has a pajama party with the Kardashians. Are they getting her help? Plus, Rebecca Gayheart details her role in ex Eric Dane's life as he battles ALS. And, Tom Cruise finally gets an Oscar. How he celebrated with a dance off? Then, while BravoCon hits Vegas, thieves hit the homes of housewives. Details on the break-ins as Bravo boss Andy Cohen reveals the changes coming to every franchise. Plus, only ET is with Michael J. Fox and all four of his kids as they mark a major milestone in the fight to stop Parkinson's. And, major news from the MCU. Ryan Coogler drops a “Black Panther” bombshell. Then, why the Brits just had to have a “Bridget Jones” statue. And, Renee Zellweger's reaction to the new London landmark. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tom Cruise finally received an Oscar with an honorary lifetime achievement award!
On today's action-packed show, Sean and Amanda dive deep into the two newest films from one of their favorite filmmakers, Richard Linklater. Before diving in, they react to a handful of movie news headlines, including Tom Cruise's honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards, the new teaser trailer for the live-action ‘Moana' film, and Georgia Oakley's upcoming remake of ‘Sense and Sensibility,' starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (1:14). Then, they discuss ‘Nouvelle Vague' (16:06) and ‘Blue Moon' (28:11) and explain why they found the former to be an interesting exercise and the latter to be one of the best movies of 2025. Later, they break down what makes Ethan Hawke such a great actor and rank their five favorite performances of his career (46:07). Finally, Sean is joined by Hawke and Linklater to explain why 'Blue Moon' was the perfect project for a collaborative reunion, explore how they have evolved as filmmakers and performers over their illustrious careers, and discuss why they feel optimistic about the current state of moviegoing and the challenges both the industry and society face (56:29). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Is the SnyderVerse returning with the WB sell?! Today on The Kristian Harloff Show, we dive into a massive wave of breaking news across the industry — and yes, that includes the big headline: Zack Snyder, Christopher Nolan & Saudis set to bring back the SnyderVerse in a potential new deal still rumor at this point. With reports that Saudi Arabia's PIF enters the Warner Bros. bid mix, there's a lot to unpack about what this could mean for DC's future and whether the SnyderVerse could actually return. We also cover the latest box-office and franchise updates, including Now You See Me 3 topping the global box office, plus confirmations of Black Panther 3 and Now You See Me 4, giving movie fans plenty to look forward to. On the DC side, BLACK ADAM star Pierce Brosnan says Doctor Fate will appear in Man of Tomorrow, which adds more intrigue to James Gunn's Superman plans. In industry news, Tom Cruise has finally received an Oscar, marking a major moment in his legendary career, and we touch on comments from the Naked Gun director, who is unimpressed with the reboot. Join Kristian as he breaks down all of this movie news, the business side of Hollywood, and what these developments could mean for the future of Warner Bros., DC Studios, and your favorite franchises. SPONSORS: NUTRAFOL: See thicker, stronger, faster-growing hair with less shedding in just 3-6 months with Nutrafol. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month's subscription and free shipping when you go to https://www.Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code KRISTIAN. CASH APP: Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/76rlxe00 #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Discounts and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. RIDGE: Take advantage of Ridge's Biggest Sale of the Year and GET UP TO 47% Off by going to https://www.Ridge.com/KRISTIAN #Ridgepod PRIZEPICKS: Visit https://app.prizepicks.com/sign-up?in... and use code KRISTIAN and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup!
Eric, Jeff, Styles, Sheek, Jadakiss and Technician the DJ got together on the Rock the Bells Cruise for a LIVE SHOWCAST, breaking down the 1990 comedy starring Kid 'n Play, Full Force, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell and Robin Harris. We debated how much high school house parties needed good music, why Martin Lawerence kept getting the short end of the stick, which character peaked in high school, if you could ever get over being known for bad breath and so much more! PLUS: Karate Man, Tom Cruise or Billy Ocean and Rosenthal, Rosenthal & P!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Burnie and Ashley discuss the weekend box office, Running Man 2025, Now You Don't Cant't See Me, Dispatch, AP Top 25, Tom Cruise's first Oscar, weird Oscar snubs, most coveted awards, DJI's uncertain sales future, the Maldives generational ban, and updates on RvB Restoration.
The Artist returns to his old video games. This involved visits from Gunny and Stitch. Mex watches a marionette scuba dive. We hear the debut of a song in praise of woke buildings. Your Huckleberry doesn't care if Tom Cruise is in there...DON'T GO INSIDE!!!!!
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By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Chris Dalla Riva, author of the new book Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. Chris is a fixture here at Numlock, we're big fans of his newsletter Can't Get Much Higher and have been eagerly waiting for this book, which tracks the history of music by coasting along the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The book can be found at Amazon and wherever books are sold, grab a copy!This interview has been condensed and edited. Chris Dalla Riva, it is great to have you back on. Especially great this week, because you are finally out with a book that I know you've been working on for a very long time, Uncharted Territory. Thanks for coming back on.Yeah, thrilled to be back, but also thrilled to have the book come out. The book publishing world is one of the only worlds left in the world that moves slow enough where you're waiting for so long for something to happen.You have guest-written for Numlock before; you have been a staple of the Sunday editions in the past. You are definitely familiar to the audience at this point because you are doing some of the best music data journalism out there. You've been working on this thing for, I feel like, as long as I've known you, and it is just great to have it come out finally, man.Yeah, actually, I met you because I was working on this project. I was trying to track down some data that you'd used at FiveThirtyEight, and you responded to my email with your phone number. You were like, “This is easier to explain over the phone.”Yeah, I remember I had scraped the radio for months at FiveThirtyEight just to see where it went, and you hit me up with that. I think that you focused some of your energies on the newsletter, and that's been so fun to follow, but this is truly what you've been working at. It is great to get you on finally to talk all about it.What would you describe this book as? How would you describe it, either to folks who might be familiar with your newsletter or unfamiliar with your newsletter, about what you're setting out to do with this particular project?The subtitle, I think, is helpful. It's What Numbers Tell Us About the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. My typical pitch is that it's a data-driven history of popular music that I wrote as I spent years listening to every number one hit song in history. You get a balance of music history, data analysis, just random music chart shenanigans. I wrote it over such a very long period of time that you get a little bit of how my life was intersecting with this book over the years as I tried to get it published.I love the angle on the No.1s being a place to go with, because it gives you a pulse on what's popular at the time and not necessarily what's the most influential at the time. You can see there's a lot of stuff that hit number one at one point or another that have no musical legacy whatsoever, but nevertheless are still interesting. It's dipping your toe in the stream, right? You can see that a lot of things that we assume about how the music industry works weren't always the case.You wrote a little bit about the early transition from big bands to singers as the front-facing people in their operation. That was informed in no small part by what was performing on the charts, but also, I think, labor action, right?An under-discussed part of music history in the last 100 years is that when thinking of any band now or any musical artist, you almost certainly think of the front person being the singer. But if you go look back at big bands of the 1930s and 1940s, anyone whose name was attached to the band was often not a singer. Some that come to mind are Glenn Miller, the Glenn Miller band. Glenn Miller was a trombone player. Artie Shaw was a clarinet player. If none of these names are familiar to you, that's okay. But you can ask your grandparents.Why does this transition happen: suddenly, the lead singer is always getting top billing in a band? There are a bunch of things that contributed to this. One thing I talk about pretty extensively is just the advent of better microphones. If a voice cannot be heard over the roar of an orchestra or a big band, you need a choir of people to sing. It makes the singer less identifiable. As we get better amplification, better microphones, you can get a wider range of vocal styles. Those vocalists can now compete with the sound of a ton of instruments.At the same time, something you mentioned that I think is a fun bit of history is how music used to be much better organized. They had better labor organization, the same way that Hollywood has much better labor organization than music these days. There still exists a group called the American Federation of Musicians. For two years, they had a strike for a work stoppage, when no new music was being recorded. This was during World War II. You weren't allowed to strike during World War II.They were frowned upon very much, it seems, yes.Yes, even if you were a musician. People were like, “Come on, why are the musicians striking?” There's a lot of interesting history there. One of the weird loopholes was that singers could not join the American Federation of Musicians. Because of that, some labels would get around the strike by just recording acapella songs or songs with instruments that were not eligible to be membership because they weren't “serious” enough, like the harmonica. There were weird harmonica songs that were popular at this time. By the time the strike ended, by the time World War II ended, suddenly, singers had a much more prominent role because they were the only ones allowed to perform.There is tons of weird stuff about this strike. Like, labels backlogged tons of recordings because they knew the strike was coming. “White Christmas,” maybe the best-selling record of all time, was one of those backlogged recordings — recorded in July of 1942 and put out however many months later.That's fun. That's basically why Tom Cruise is in a union but Bad Bunny isn't?I guess so. Music and labor have a history that I'm not an expert on. For some reason, musicians have had a much more difficult time organizing. It seemed to be a little bit easier back when there were these big bands that needed to be rolled out to perform in movie theaters or local clubs. You needed a tuba player and a trombone player and a sax player. I guess it was easier for those musicians to organize. Whereas now, things are so scattered and productions can be super small, and you could record something in your bedroom. They never got that level of organization. I think it's actually hurt artists to some degree because they don't have the protections that the film industry does.Because you're able to just coast along at the top of the charts throughout basically the century, you're able to get lots of different interweaving stories of labor and also legal disputes/legal outcomes, as well as this technological evolution. What are some of the ways that technology has informed how the music that we listen to changes or evolves over time? Or even some of the litigation that we have seen over the course of the century of musical creation. It just seems like it's a really fun way to track some of these bigger trends that we don't even know are really trends.Yeah, totally. I think one of the key themes of the book is that musical evolution is often downstream from technological innovation, which has a nice little ring to it. But in general, there's this idea that creativity is being struck by the muse, and you create something. Whereas in reality, there are usually physical constraints or technological constraints that shape the art that we make. One of the most basic examples is the length of songs. From the '40s up till the early, mid-60s, the pop song sits around 2.5 to three minutes. The reason for this is that vinyl singles could literally not hold more sound without degrading, which is completely backwards from the idea that there was an artist who chose to write a 2.5-minute song.I was like, “Well, you had to work within the constraint.” Then technology gets better, singles start to get longer. During the disco era, they actually made bigger discs to put out these long dance mixes. The single sat around like 3.5 to 4.5 minutes for decades until about 10 years ago, when it started to shorten again. People typically point to music streaming for this reason, because artists are paid if a song is listened to for more than 30 seconds, so it's really just a volume game. If you have a 14 minute song that someone listens to one time, they get paid once. But if I listen to a two-minute song seven times (which is again, the same amount of time spent listening), I will be paid out seven times. There is this financial incentive to shorten songs.I don't think artists are sitting in the studio thinking about this constantly. But what I see, what I saw again and again, is that artists were rational beings to some degree and would work within the constraints that they were given. They would usually push against those constraints. That's where a lot of great art comes out of.Even new mediums are offering new opportunities. You wrote a little bit about MTV and how that really changed a lot of what was able to be successful at the time. You had new types of acts that were able to really start competing there, and other acts that just weren't. Do you wanna speak a little bit about like what video did?Yeah, video certainly changed the game. There were artists who had visual presences earlier. The Beatles had a very visual presence. I think part of their success is tied to the fact that television was becoming a thing, and mass media was really becoming a thing. However, we associate musicians with visuals so much these days. That really emerged in the 1980s, where you needed your visual concepts to be as strong, if not stronger than, your musical concepts. I think because of that, you start seeing some artists break through who I don't think are considered great musicians.I always sadly point to the song, “Hey Mickey” by Tony Basil. If it's your favorite song, sorry. I don't think it's a masterful musical creation, but it had this fun music video where she's dressed up as a cheerleader. A lot of that song's success was just the fact that MTV was willing to put that in heavy rotation because it was a fun video to watch. We live in the shadow of that era where visuals matter just as much as anything else.When you think about the most popular artists, outside of maybe a handful, you think of their visual concepts. You think of what Beyoncé looks like, what her videos are like, same with Taylor Swift, as much as you think about their music. That really reshaped our relationship with popular music. We expect to know what artists look like. It's odd to think about that; it really wasn't a thing decades before. You could be a fan of an artist and not really know what they look like. How would you know? Maybe you saw them in a magazine. Maybe you caught them on one television show. The idea that we have access to what everyone looks like is a pretty new phenomenon.That's fun. It's just so interesting to see how a simple change, whether it's today an algorithm or then a medium of distribution, can just have material impacts on the popularity of British synth music in America.Yeah, that's the perfect example. There's a great book called I Want My MTV, and it's an oral history of MTV. They talked to one of the founders. Early MTV would play, as you're saying, all these British new wave acts. Think A Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran or even someone like U2. They asked the founder, “Why were you playing so many British artists on early MTV?” He was like, “For some reason, British artists happened to make music videos. And there were about 200 music videos in existence. We had to fill 24 hours of programming.” A Flock of Seagulls was gonna get played a bunch of times just because they happened to make music videos.It is a weird thing. Why would anyone make a music video if there was nowhere to really play them? I don't know why specifically the British had more videos, but there were occasional times where television shows might show a video.They do love that over there, like Top of the Pops. I can see why.Music and television have always been connected. You even think Saturday Night Live still has musical acts. Back then, say your label didn't wanna send you out to Britain to go on Top of the Pops. Maybe they would send a video of you instead. There were videos that would float around on these variety shows, and some early videos were just concert footage. It was like, it was a chicken or the egg thing. Once some people had success on MTV, everyone started producing videos. MTV somehow pulled off the miracle of convincing labels that they needed to make videos and that they needed to front the cost for that. Then they had to give MTV the video for free. I don't know how MTV managed to do that.Well, all of Gen X can't be wrong. If you do wanna get it out there, you do have to get it out there. One really fun recurring thing in the book — which again, like I really enjoyed. I think it's a phenomenal work. I think it's a great history. I'm telling stories that I learned in your book to everybody. It is a really fun read in that regard, I wanna say.I do love how you occasionally clock a genre that really only exists briefly. There's one that always goes around for like the strangest things to hit number one, like the Ballad of the Green Berets. I think like there's a Star Wars disco track that I definitely have on vinyl at home about that. You wrote a lot about like teen tragedy songs. What are some of the fascinating like brief trends that only made a small splash and that all of us have forgotten ever existed, but nevertheless achieve some measure of immortality?Yeah, the teen tragedy song is a good one. That actually inspired the writing of this whole book because I got 50 No. 1s, and I was like, “Why are there so many number ones about teenagers dying? That's a little weird.” And then I did a little digging and tried to piece together why that was. The teenage tragedy song, late '50s, early '60s, there are all of these songs about two teenagers in love, usually high schoolers. One tragically dies often in a car crash, and the other is very sad and maybe says that they'll reunite again one day in the afterlife. Some of the big ones are “Leader of the Pack” by the Shangri-Las and “Teen Angel” by Mark Dinning.It's a very weird blip in popular music history. I won't say it has cast a long shadow, but there are some occasional people who pull from that tradition. The craziest teen tragedy song ever was “Bat Outta Hell” by Meatloaf, in which Jim Steinman tried to write a nine-minute motorcycle crash song. I think that's a really interesting one.Disco: bizarre in the amount of people that made disco songs. I really came to like disco and the best disco music, I'm like, “These are the greatest sounds that have ever been recorded.” But it got so big and so popular that everyone felt the need to record disco songs.Not everything is “I Feel Love,” right?No, most things are not. It strikes me that this happened with disco, but has not happened with other genres. Frank Sinatra recorded disco songs. Basically, every television theme song got a disco remix. I Love Lucy had a disco remix. The Rocky theme song had a disco remix.What? I'm sorry, Frank Sinatra did a disco song? Is it good?It's not good. It's “Night and Day” over a disco beat. And it's not clear to me if they just remixed it or if he actually recut the vocal because I just cannot imagine him doing that. In the mid-60s, there was a nun who topped the charts, The Singing Nun with a song called “Dominique.” Of course, during the disco era, it was remixed as a disco song. There are examples of this where people went sort of disco. The Rolling Stones record “Miss You” and it has the disco beat, or Pink Floyd does “Another Brick in the Wall” or Queen does “Another One Bites the Dust.”Everyone was gonna give it a try. There was so much money being made in the disco world at the time. You can always find some artists you would never think would do a disco song probably tried. They probably gave it their best.That's great. It's just fun because the things that hit number one for a week don't necessarily have to be good. They just have to be popular for like a week. Even the construction of the Top 40 chart, which you get into in the book, isn't exactly science. A lot of times, it's a little bit of intuition. It's a lot of what's selling and what's selling where specifically. It is a little bit woo woo, right?Yeah, definitely. The goal of this chart is “What's the most popular song in America in a given week?” Back in the day, that meant what were people buying? What were people listening to on the radio? What were people spinning in jukeboxes? Today, most music is done on streaming. It's consumption-based, rather than sales-based. So the chart's the same in name only, but it's really measuring very different things. The equivalent would be if we knew after you purchased your copy of “I Feel Love,” how many times did you actually play it at home? You could have purchased it, went home and never played it again. Something like that would not register on the charts these days.I respect the people at Billboard because they have an impossible task. It's like “We're gonna take all the information and we're going to boil it down into choosing or measuring what the most popular song is.” It's an impossible task to some degree.I have watched the evolution of the chart, and I go back and forth on whether they have given up on actually trying to rank stuff or if they are just ranking things in a different way. I think that the apples-to-apples between the era stuff is just so hard to do.One thing I really enjoyed about your book, in particular, is that it's not a story of why these songs are the best. It's a story of why these songs were popular at the time, just dipping the toe into the river of human sound. One thing that I'll ask as you wrap: as you were going through these eras, who did you hear a lot more of than you thought? Who did you hear a lot less than you expected?I joked with some people that if you just looked at the top of the charts, the greatest rock band of the 1970s is either Grand Funk Railroad or Three Dog Night because they both had three number one hits, and many other bands in the classic rock canon have none. Led Zeppelin does not really exist on the pop chart, the singles chart. Led Zeppelin really only put out albums. The Eagles were also big during the '70s on the music charts. But Three Dog Night, they're the legends.There are tons of people that I didn't realize how much I would see of them. Someone like Lionel Richie and Phil Collins, of course, they're tremendously popular, but they were so popular. Phil Collins was popular at the height of the bald pop star era, which I think is a thing of the past. You had multiple bald men who were regularly topping the charts in the mid-80s. You see a ton of Phil Collins, more than I was expecting, even though I know he's very popular.Who don't you see a ton of? Sometimes you don't see people until a bit later in their careers. This is actually an interesting phenomenon. Artists do not score a number one hit during their most critically acclaimed period, and then a decade later, they do. For example, Cheap Trick. They have a number one hit, but it's at the end of the '80s song called “The Flame.” Whereas if you hear Cheap Trick on the radio, it's probably their live album from the 1970s. This is a phenomenon you see again and again. Some old timer will get their number one much later in their career. Tina Turner gets her number one when she's probably in her 40s. It's always interesting to see that.There are also some artists where I feel like there's a divergence between what their most popular songs are these days and what was topping the charts. Elton John is a good example there. “Benny and the Jets” was a number one hit, still a tremendously popular song. But he's got a lot of weird No. 1s that I don't think have as much street cred these days. He has a song called “Island Girl.” Did not age like fine wine. I don't even think he plays it live anymore because it's considered somewhat racially insensitive. But it was a No. 1 hit at the time. “Philadelphia Freedom” is another one by Elton John. I feel like when people think of the Elton John catalog, it's probably not the first song that comes to mind. But it was a No. 1 hit, huge smash. His cover of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was a No. 1. Elton John has been very popular throughout the decades, but I feel like the reasons he's been popular have changed.People have just gravitated towards different songs as time has gone on. You get distortions at the top of the charts. But I think, as you mentioned, it provides a good sample of what was actually popular. You have the good, the bad, and the ugly. Whereas if you look at some other sources, people are just gonna be like, “Oh, listen to these records. These are the best records.” In reality, the bad records are important, too.Yeah, bad records are great. They're at least interesting. I imagine also some of this process must have been missing out on a lot of interesting music because one song was just dominating the charts. Were there any songs in particular that come to mind that wooled the roost for potentially a little bit too long?Yeah, the quintessential example is the “Macarena” in the ‘90s.Oh, no!I think it was No. 1 for 13 weeks.Christ!There's a great clip of people at the Democratic National Convention and '96 dancing the “Macarena.” It's so bad. Yeah, so a very popular song. There are tons of stuff that gets stuck behind it. There's a great No.1 hit in the '90s called “I Love You Always Forever.” It's a very nice song by Donna Lewis. It's stuck at No. 2 because it just happened to be popular during the “Macarena's” very long run. YYour life's work, your greatest accomplishment, being stymied by the “Macarena” feels like a level of creative hell that I have never envisioned before.Yeah, there are other artists who got unlucky. Bruce Springsteen never performed a No. 1 hit. He wrote a No.1 hit for another artist. His closest was “Dancing in the Dark” got to No. 2, but that was also when Prince released “When Doves Cry,” so it's a tough, tough week. Bob Dylan, similar thing. He wrote a No. 1 hit, but he only ever got to No. 2. I think he got to No. 2 twice. Once, he got stuck behind “Help” by the Beatles, and another time he got stuck behind “Monday Monday” by the Mamas and the Papas.This is another thing when I talk about the charts. There could be many fewer units sold in a given week, or there could be many more units sold. There's a lot of luck involved if you're gonna go all the way to No. 1. You could be Bruce Springsteen: you release the biggest record of your life, and Prince also releases the biggest record of his life at the exact same time.Incredible. So again, I have read the book. I really, really like it. People are doubtlessly familiar with the newsletter at this point, but I am also a big fan and booster of that. But I guess I'll just throw it to you. Where can folks find the book, and where can folks find you?Yeah, you can find me, Chris Dalla Riva, basically on every social media platform under cdallarivamusic. I'm most active on TikTok and Instagram. The book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us About the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves, should be available from every major retailer online. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Booklist, all that good stuff. Not available physically in stores, so definitely order it online.Like I said, I spent years listening to every No. 1 hit in history, built a giant data set about all those songs and used that to write a data-driven history of popular music from 1958 to basically 2025. So go pick up a copy, buy one for your mother for Christmas. Or your father, I don't discriminate. Yeah, check it out. I'm hoping people enjoy it, and I'm really excited to finally get it out in the world. It's been a long, circuitous journey to get it published.It's a really fun read, and I wish it nothing but the best. And yeah, congrats, thanks for coming on.Yeah, thanks for having me.Edited by Crystal WangIf you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news. 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We did it!!! The Final Reckoning is here! What started as a silly project to expose Megan to the ultimate action espionage franchise turned into a rebirth for I Like to Movie Movie, and we could not be happier for the results. We also could not be happier to finally be out from under this franchise. We are now free. Free to wear whatever masks we choose. In this episode we look back on the history of the franchise and assess Final Reckoning's role as not just the end of the story, but the end of a filmmaking era. What's next for Tom Cruise? What's next for Christopher McQuarrie? Why did the navy put its hottest soldiers on the same submarine? When did Luther fall ill? Is that Ilsa Faust we see? Be sure to like, subscribe, and leave us a review on your podcatcher of choice. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Stay tuned to ScullyVision.com for more fun stuff. Send your clicks over to TubiTV to see Dan in .ask, as well as YouTube and FoundTV for Found Footage Finds (help us get a season two!!!!) Next month's film: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Jim Hill and Eric Hersey trace the ambitious — and ultimately ill-fated — vision for Universal's Dark Universe, from the scrapped sequel to The Mummy to Tom Cruise's push to reinvent himself as the studio's modern Van Helsing. NEWS Universal courts talent and headlines by hiring Mark Platt and director Lorene Scafaria for a Sabrina Carpenter–led Alice in Wonderland musical. Comcast explores a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs advising. Competing interest from Netflix and Apple raises the stakes ahead of WBD's planned corporate split. Peacock sets a new premiere date for The Epic Ride documentary, now featuring rare dragon-drone testing footage from Epic Universe. A closer look at how the industry shake-ups could affect theme park rights, licensing, and future Universal IP development. FEATURE The original plan for a direct sequel to 2017's The Mummy — and how the story would have expanded Dr. Jekyll's organization and the gods-and-monsters mythology. Why Tom Cruise's version of Nick Morton was conceived as the entry point to a larger shared universe… and how internal plans positioned him as the modern Van Helsing, monster hunter and connective tissue between films. How Cruise's hands-on creative control — the same instinct that later led Top Gun: Maverick to a $1.4B box office — clashed with Universal's rollout of the Dark Universe brand. A breakdown of what actually killed the Dark Universe: mismatched expectations, a premature cinematic universe announcement, and a marketing campaign Cruise felt undermined the film he delivered. Why Epic Universe's Dark Universe land succeeds where the films didn't — channeling classic-monster storytelling without the burden of a forced franchise blueprint. HOSTS Jim Hill — X/Twitter: @JimHillMedia | Instagram: @JimHillMedia | Website: jimhillmedia.comEric Hersey — X/Twitter: @erichersey | Instagram: @erichersey | Website: erichersey.com PATREON Love the show? Support more insider stories, deep dives, and history of themed entertainment at:https://www.patreon.com/jimhillmedia/ FOLLOW US Facebook: @JimHillMediaNews YouTube: @jimhillmedia TikTok: @jimhillmedia PRODUCTION Edited by Dave Grey Produced by Eric Hersey — Strong Minded Agency SPONSOR Unlocked Magic — Save up to 12% on Universal Orlando and Walt Disney World tickets, including discounts on after-hours events like Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party and Jollywood Nights. Start planning at UnlockedMagic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on Another Pass, Sam and Case are joined by Erin Callahan to dig into Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling emotional epic, Magnolia. We talk about intersecting lives, the weight of coincidence, and whether a few small edits could make this frog-filled fever dream even more powerful. #AnotherPass #Magnolia #PTAnderson #MoviePodcast #FilmDiscussion Another Pass Full Episode Originally aired: November 14, 2025 Music by Vin Macri and Matt Brogan Podcast Edited by Sophia Ricciardi Certain Point Of View is a podcast network brining you all sorts of nerdy goodness! From Star Wars role playing, to Disney day dreaming, to video game love, we've got the show for you! Learn more on our website: https://www.certainpov.com Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/CertainPOVMedia Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/wcHHer4 PODCAST SHOWS: ▶ Another Pass - https://www.certainpov.com/another-pass-podcast Outline Introduction to Podcast and Guests (00:00 - 02:47) Introduction of podcast hosts Case Aiken and Sam Alicea alongside guest Erin Callahan, comedian and performer based in LA. Overview of the podcast's goal of analyzing fascinating but flawed movies and discussing 'Magnolia' by Paul Thomas Anderson. Film Reception and Initial Impressions (02:47 - 06:41) Discussion on the film's commercial performance (barely recouped budget). Observations on how the interconnected plotlines initially seem scattered but progressively reveal ties. Personal Reactions and Character Complexity (06:41 - 09:43) Sam expresses strong dislike for the film, citing an emotional aversion to nearly all characters except the frogs. Recognition of standout performances by William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman despite overall dislike. Overview of Film Narrative and Themes (09:43 - 19:46) Aaron explains the ensemble format, interconnected stories set in San Fernando Valley culminating in a biblical-style frog plague. Major theme identified: dysfunctional relationships between parents and children. Cops and Authority Portrayal (19:46 - 29:25) John C. Reilly's character depicted as a well-meaning but incompetent cop, demonstrating systemic failures in law enforcement. The film's critical stance towards police, contrasting with mainstream media depictions at the time. Character Analysis: Donnie and Stanley (29:25 - 39:23) William H. Macy's character as a former quiz boy who symbolizes a lost potential and relatability to gifted child experience. Debate on whether his storyline is essential or expendable in a trimmed-down version of the film. Entertainment Moguls and Their Families (39:23 - 49:49) Comparison of Earl Partridge and Jimmy Gator as similar figures of industry power who have harmed their children and spouses. Tom Cruise's Frank T.J. Mackey characterized as a 'manosphere' guru shaped by family trauma. Claudia and Themes of Control and Addiction (49:49 - 59:40) Claudia viewed as a victim of parental control, drug addiction, and neglect juxtaposed with her father's manipulative behavior. Biblical allusion of plague of frogs as symbolic of parental failure to 'let their children go.' Frank T.J. Mackey and Masculine Performance (59:41 - 01:09:41) Spotlight on Tom Cruise's versatile and immersive performance as Frank T.J. Mackey, exploring the emotional façade and trauma underlying his character. Mention of Cruise's Oscar nomination for the role and the improvisation he brought to the emotional father-son scenes. Julianne Moore's Character and Themes of Caregiving and Betrayal (01:09:41 - 01:20:56) Detailed discussion of Linda Partridge showing vulnerability, guilt, and emotional complexity amid caregiving for a dying Earl Partridge. Exploration of betrayal themes and intimate family dynamics. Film Length and Narrative Structure Discussion (01:20:56 - 01:32:27) Consensus on the film's excessive length complicating viewer engagement. Suggestions to streamline or reimagine — either cut characters and subplots or expand into a miniseries format. Potential Edits and Streamlining Approaches (01:32:27 - 01:43:10) Aaron recommends removing William H. Macy's character to focus tightly on key children and their relationships with their parents. Both emphasize retaining vital scenes such as the frog plague, quiz show elements, and key emotional arcs. Lighthearted Closing and Future Topics (01:43:10 - 01:53:43) Humorous tangent on frogs and Ninja Turtles. Promotion of next episode on 'Highlander 2: The Quickening.'
Students at a prestigious military academy hold an insurrection when told the school will close. Gotta be honest, I never loved my high school that much. Starring Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Giancarlo Esposito, and George C. Scott. Written by Darryl Ponicsan and Robert Mark Kamen. Directed by Harold Becker.
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92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Audible! On today's episode, we are joined by friend of the show and star of the upcoming film ‘Eternity,' Miles Teller! Before we talk to Miles we get into everything from week 11 in the NFL including Jason having a “Freaky Friday” moment with Peyton Manning, what Travis got up to on the bye week, a chaotic food tour of Lambeau, a recap of the wild ending of Eagles/Packers, the guys thoughts on Kafka taking over in New York, drive by trolling, and so many thoughts on Dan Campbell's new glasses. Finally, we talk to Miles Teller about his new film ‘Eternity,' why he trusts Jalen Hurts, who he's siding with in our “Tahoe Bet,” how Tom Cruise changed his approach to being a leading man, why he used to DM Kobe his 2k scores, the guys answer some of his NFL questions, and we find out why he took a few shots to the ribs in a Super Bowl suite. Remember to Hit the Heights Hotline with your Hottest Holiday Takes - 929-399-7260Check out ‘Eternity' in theaters November 26th. https://a24films.com/films/eternityWatch and listen to new episodes of New Heights every Wednesday during the NFL season and follow us on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: https://lnk.to/newheightshowYou can also listen to new episodes ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. ...Download the full podcast here:Wondery: https://wondery.app.link/s9hHTgtXpMbApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-heights/id1643745036Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1y3SUbFMUSESC1N43tBleK?si=LsuQ4a5MRN6wGMcfVcuynwCheck out New Heights on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR2MJWYS?ref=blogSend something to the New Heights Mailbox. Don't be weird though. C/O New Heights Productions135 E OLIVE AVE, BURBANK, CA 91502Support the show: AUDIBLE: Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions–Available now at https://audible.com/HP1AMERICAN EXPRESS: The refreshed Platinum card is here. Learn more at https://americanexpress.com/withplatinum. Terms apply.SEAT GEEK: Use our code for 10% off your SeatGeek order*. https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/NEWHEIGHTS ($25 max discount) *Restrictions ApplyBOARS HEAD: Head to your local Boar's Head deli counter to discover game-changing flavor for every gathering. Boar's Head. Committed to Craft Since 1905.ALLSTATE: Checking first is smart. So, check https://Allstate.com first for a quote that could save you hundreds.DRAFT KINGS: Don't miss out on all the action this week at DraftKings! Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up using dkng.co/newheights or through my promo code NEWHEIGHTS.GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, (800) 327-5050 or visit http://gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org (CT), or visit http://www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD). 21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT. Eligibility restrictions apply. Terms: http://draftkings.com/sportsbook. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). Pass-thru of per wager tax may apply in IL. 1 per new customer. Must register new account to receive reward Token. Must select Token BEFORE placing min. $5 bet to receive $300 in Bonus Bets if your bet wins. Min.-500 odds req. Token and Bonus Bets are single-use and non-withdrawable. Token expires 11/23/25. Bonus Bets expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout Terms: http://sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 11/16/25 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Max Balegde is here this week!! Drew and Max talk discovering gambling in Vegas, a stranger throwing Max's umbrella, throwing up in front of Tom Cruise, Drew trapped behind a shrub on the red carpet, British tortoises, and so much more. Max IG: https://www.instagram.com/max_balegde/Max TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@max_balegde?lang=enFollow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/ Secrets & Truths come to light this season on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices