We are looking at the 2024 Netflix adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson play, The Piano Lesson, directed by Malcolm Washington, starring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, and Samuel L. Jackson. Plus we take a music-movie quiz written by Steven Ray Morris. Emmy-winning film and television producer, Shelby Stone, joins us.

What’s Good:

Drea - Celebrity Look Alike Competitions

Shelby - Not Snowing or Freezing on the East Coast/Her pets

Alonso - A Season for Soft Foods (A can of Campbells’ Cream of Chicken Soup)

ITIDIC:
1. Several high-profile filmmakers pull their films out of Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival following a Misogynist op-ed written by the festival’s founder and head Marek Żydowicz.

- https://deadline.com/2024/11/coralie-fargeat-the-substance-camerimage-marek-zydowicz-women-cinematographers-1236178278/

- https://www.thewrap.com/camerimage-festival-jury-we-wholeheartedly-support-gender-inclusivity/

- https://deadline.com/2024/11/steve-mcqueen-blitz-camerimage-film-festival-2024-marek-zydowicz-female-cinematographers-1236174179/

2. Anna Kendrick Felt ‘Gross’ Making Money Off ‘Woman of the Hour,’ Donated All Her Pay to Anti-Violence Charities: ‘Felt Like the Least I Could Do’

3. Pop-Loving Beauty Brand E.l.f. Cosmetics Launches Production Arm

Christmas Movie Minute:

1. Festival of Trees
2. Tis the Season to be Irish
3. Christmas with the Singhs
4. Jingle Bell Run
5. Confessions of a Christmas Letter
6. Hot Frosty

Staff Picks:

Drea - Flow

Shelby - Nightbitch

Alonso - Carnage for Christmas

Plugs!

Have Yourself A Movie Little Christmas

I’ll Be Home For Christmas Movies

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With
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde
Ify Nwadiwe

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher