On the final show of 2024, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy check out eight new movies that include a Danish serial killer from 1919 (The Girl with the Needle) and Nicole Kidman as a CEO who enters into an affair with an intern (Babygirl). Tyler Perry tells the story of undelivered mail during wartime (The Six Triple Eight) and the Sega Genesis hero returns to battle Jim Carrey (Sonic the Hedgehog 3). Robert Eggers offers his take on the Dracula legend (Nosferatu) and James Mangold tells another story of a musical artist (A Complete Unknown). Finally, Barry Jenkins helps tell a pair of wildly different tales. He writes Rachel Morrison’s directorial debut of an Olympic female boxer (The Fire Inside) and then he takes the reins himself of Disney’s prequel to one of their biggest stories (Mufasa: The Lion King).

0:00 - Intro

1:34 - The Girl with the Needle

7:30 - Babygirl

18:12 – The Six Triple Eight

26:55 - Nosferatu

38:58 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3

46:01 – The Fire Inside

57:27 – A Complete Unknown,

1:15:00 - Mufasa: The Lion King

1:32:25 - Outro

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