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This week: Apple let’s us all in to their super secret design lab, and what we find is amazing; the best of the holiday iOS App Store deals; and we pick our favorite movies of 2015! This episode supported by Freshbooks, the easy-to-use invoicing software designed to help small business owners get organized, save time invoicing and get paid faster.  And I can vouch for this from experience, it also makes tax time a cinch.  Get started with a free trial at Freshbooks.com/cultcast, and please enter “CultCast” in the “How did you hear about us?” section! Thanks to Audible for supporting this episode. Audible, the home of over 150,000 audio books from practically every genre in existence.  Grab Leander's book, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products, for FREE with a 30-day Audible trial.  The book is yours to keep even if you decide not to keep your Audible subscription.  Get started now at audiblepodcast.com/cultcast We also want to give Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com a huge thanks for all the great music you hear in today's show. On the show this week@erfon / @bst3r / @lkahney A very rare look into the Apple Design LabPart 1Part 2 The Beatles Are Coming to Apple Music on Christmas Evehttp://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/22/the-beatles-apple-music-christmas-eve/ God help us, Kim Kardashian now has her own emojihttp://www.cultofmac.com/403132/god-help-us-kim-kardashian-now-has-her-own-emoji/ App Store Holiday Sales: Final Fantasy VII, Lara Croft GO, Notability and Morehttp://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/21/app-store-holiday-sales-iphone-ipad/DuckTales: Remastered ($9.99 → 99¢) Bastion ($4.99 → 99¢) Deliveries ($4.99 → $2.99) Leo's Fortune ($4.99 → 99¢)  10 things we learned from Apple’s 60 Minutesepisodehttp://www.cultofmac.com/402999/10-things-we-learned-from-apples-60-minutes-episode/ Apple may have accidentally leaked new MacBookhttp://www.cultofmac.com/403051/apple-may-have-accidentally-leaked-new-macbook/ Movies we mention in this episode Spectrehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/ Sicariohttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/ Ex Machinahttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/