On the penultimate review episode of 2022, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at nine new movies. They include documentaries about the theater after Covid (Broadway Rising) and the life of Al Sharpton (Loudmouth). Someone made a bloody horror film about The Grinch (The Mean One) and another Oscar-winning director again tries to turn a wooden boy into a good boy (Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio). Lea Seydoux has to juggle an affair and her ailing father (One Fine Morning) while Jim Parsons must tend to his dying partner (Spoiler Alert). Sam Mendes takes us into the life of a movie theater employee (Empire of Light), a donkey sees the good and bad in people (EO) as does Brendan Fraser in Darren Aronofsky’s divisive new film (The Whale).

0:00 – Intro

1:37 - Broadway Rising

9:24 – Loudmouth

16:41 – One Fine Morning

25:23 – Spoiler Alert

32:15 – Empire of Light

41:40 – The Mean One

48:06 – Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

1:03:31 – EO

1:09:23 - The Whale

1:25:23 - Outro

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