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Rounding off the year with a few mind-blowing stats in this episode we sum up a whole year filled with the good bad the bad and the ugly of 2022's movies - Mark picks his top 10 films of 2022, Stewart picks his top 5 and reveals how he took cinema snacks to a whole new level recently! 

Corsage - On Christmas Eve 1877, Empress Elizabeth of Austria, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman. She starts to trying to maintain her public image. 

Smile - After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. 

White Noise - An average American family try to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Famed detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to solve a murder amongst friends on a remote island.

Lyle Lyle Crocodile - Entertainer Hector P. Valenti discovers a singing crocodile called Lyle. But when Hector leaves Lyle, the crocodile has to find a new home in New York. It just so happens the house he has picked is already lived in by the Primm family.

Strange World - The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission.

Avatar: The Way of Water - Jake Sully lives with his newfound family on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and an army of the Na’vi race to protect their home. 

The Lost King - An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years. 

Ticket To Paradise - A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio - A father’s wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child. 

Don’t Worry Darling - A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamourous company could be hiding disturbing secrets. 

Mad God - A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol - On Christmas Eve miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future in the hope that he will learn the error of his ways. 

Beast - A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator. 

Lynch/Oz - Documenting director David Lynch's obsession with `The Wizard of Oz' and its influence on his films, which many filmmakers and critics argue should be considered a foundational text for much of his work.

She Said - New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation – a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood. 

Matilda The Musical - Schoolgirl Matilda decides to take a stand against the headmistress of her school and in doing so alters the course of her own life. 

Claydream - Charting the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of the “father of Claymation” Will Vinton.

The Wonder - When a young girl in the Irish midlands stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well, an English nurse is sent to observe and report how this child continues to stay alive.

Spirited - Clint Briggs is not a nice man. So when he is selected to be redeemed by the spirit realm at Christmas. Three ghosts are sent to meet him. For Christmas Present ghost he becomes a little to acquainted with Clint and then is suddenly thrust into the real world to help the redemption happen.

Disenchanted - Ten years after her happily ever after, Giselle questions her happiness, inadvertently turning the lives of those in the real world and Andalasia upside down in the process.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

My Father’s Dragon - Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.

Wildhood - Two brothers embark on a journey to find their birth mother after their abusive father had lied for years about her whereabouts; along the way, they reconnect with their indigenous heritage and make a new friend.