Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy play a little catchup this week after being off the previous. This week’s review show includes a pair of documentaries about classic bands (Immediate Family) and a legendary filmmaker (Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer). Erik checks in a wintry monster movie (A Creature Was Stirring) and Steve looks at a filmed stage musical (Waitress: The Musical) and another Dumas adaptation (The Three Musketeers: D’artagnan). It’s the end of the year so it must mean apocalyptic disaster with a pair of films (Concrete Utopia, Leave the World Behind). Mark Wahlberg is another secret killer with a homelife (The Family Plan) which will not be mistaken for two of this year’s award contenders about being outside the walls of Auschwitz (The Zone of Interest) and Emma Stone breaking down the walls of womanhood (Poor Things). Finally, families have their choice between Hayao Miyazaki (The Boy and the Heron), Aardman Studios (Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget) and the origins of a candy maker (Wonka).

0:00 - Intro

1:33 – Concrete Utopia

3:16 – The Three Musketeers: D’artagnan

5:02 – Waitress: The Musical

9:30 - Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

16:32 - A Creature Was Stirring

26:56 - Immediate Family

33:48 - Leave the World Behind

49:54 – The Boy and the Heron

1:00:10 - Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

1:11:50 – The Zone of Interest

1:24:27 – The Family Plan

1:38:35 - Poor Things

1:53:32 – Wonka

2:07:52 – Preview of Next Week

2:09:23 - Outro

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