For December 19th, 2016, Michael, Red, and Scott meet in the Nostromo Rebel Base and discuss Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard bringing the Casablanca-style glitz and glamour back to WWII in ALLIED from the waning Robert Zemeckis, the 2016 Golden Globe nominations plop a few pleasant surprises onto show favorites DEADPOOL and HELL OR HIGH WATER, Scott lets the wall around his heart crumble to the ground with the absolutely exceptional fantasy A MONSTER CALLS featuring Liam Neeson as a tearjerking Treebeard, the surprisingly thrilling genre film TRAIN TO BUSAN is fully loaded with blind and bloodthirsty zombie commuters, we remain hypnotically reserved on the new Netflix Original series THE OA from SOUND OF MY VOICE producers Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and much, much more before our featured review of ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY from director Gareth Edwards.

MUSIC

The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:48:25 - Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
• 1:16:50 - *Spoiler Tag*

CLIPS

• A Monster Calls (2016)
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

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