Weirdly enough, there were well over a dozen new releases this weekend, even if it a few of them made anything resembling “money” in terms of domestic grosses. Nonetheless, this episode offers a slew of tangents including…

* The comparative cultural rehabilitation of Chris Nolan’s Interstellar, at least in terms of online nitpicking versus critical and real-world approval

* The value of putting old(er) classics back into wide theatrical release

* Why Y2K was DOA

* Bruce Willis’ complicated 2010s filmography

* Our critical complaints with Gladiator II

* Michelle Kisner (and Lisa Laman) raving about The Brutalist

Oh, right, Michelle Kisner, a card-carrying (and founding) member of the Michigan Movie Critics Guild, stopped by as a special guest as Jeremy took the week off. So this week it’s Scott, Lisa and Michelle in a conventionally unconventional episode that somehow found more to talk about in regard to those Johnny English movies than about Moana 2.

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