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Multiple realities and different versions of Spider-Man converge in Miles Morales' hometown in Bob Perischetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman's animated SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer chooses ZVIZDAL: [CHERNOBYL - SO FAR SO CLOSE], the Belgian group BERLIN's mix of documentary film, dioramas, and performing arts used to present an elderly couple who still reside in the village within the zone of the 1986 nuclear plant accident. Paul Markoff picks director Jonathan Demme's RICKI AND THE FLASH with Meryl Streep as a mother who focused on her rock stardom ambitions over family.

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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE clip courtesy Columbia Pictures

RICKI AND THE FLASH clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded January 12, 2019.

Writer-director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin's novel IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, which focuses on a young couple in love and expecting a child. KiKi Layne and Stephan James star as the lovers who are torn apart when he is accused of a crime and imprisoned while their families try to prove his innocence.

Alfonso Cuarón's semi-autobiographical ROMA lovingly observes a maid who cares for a middle class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded January 12, 2019.

Writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen serve a slab of dark Americana in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS. The Old West anthology film tells six tales with a cast including Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, and Zoe Kazan.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects MINDING THE GAP, Bing Liu's documentary about skateboarding friends in Rockford, Illinois. Paul Markoff picks Doug Liman's AMERICAN MADE with Tom Cruise as a pilot who flies missions for the CIA and smuggles drugs for the Medellín Cartel.

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THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS clip courtesy Netflix

MINDING THE GAP clip courtesy Hulu

AMERICAN MADE clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded December 16, 2018.

Celeste, played as a teenager by Raffey Cassidy and as an adult by Natalie Portman, emerges from surviving a school survivor to become a jaded pop star in writer-director Brady Corbet's VOX LUX.

In Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d'Or-winning drama SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU) a makeshift family creates meaningful bonds in caring for one another while struggling with life in poverty.

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VOX LUX clip courtesy Neon

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded December 16, 2018.

Set in early 1800s England, director Yorgos Lanthimos' THE FAVOURITE features Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz scheming against one another to become the preferred friend and adviser to Olivia Colman's Queen Anne.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer appreciates the zaniness of a robot fighting a force controlling cell phones in S. Shankar's science fiction-action-comedy 2.0. Paul Markoff is compelled by how Alex Garland explores the feelings between a man and an artificially intelligent creation in EX MACHINA.

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THE FAVOURITE clip courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures

EX MACHINA clip courtesy A24

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded December 16, 2018.

On this special holiday episode, Paul Newman suggests a corporation's board of directors promote Tim Robbins' recent business school graduate to president as a means of devaluing the stock they wish to buy on January 1 to retain control of the company in THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, Joel and Ethan Coen's 1994 comedy influenced by the films of Preston Sturges and Frank Capra, including IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also share the film-related wishes they hope might be granted this season.

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THE HUDSUCKER PROXY clip courtesy Warner Bros.

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded December 2, 2018.

Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope, voiced by John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman, learn what life is like beyond arcade games when they go online in RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET.

Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki lose their husbands in a heist gone wrong and must follow in their thieving ways to come up with $2 million their spouses took from a crime boss in director and co-writer Steve McQueen's WIDOWS.

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RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

WIDOWS clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded December 2, 2018.

The ROCKY series continues in director Steven Caple Jr.'s CREED II with Michael B. Jordan's heavyweight boxer Adonis Creed facing a challenger whose father killed his father in the ring more than thirty years ago.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Matthew Heineman's drama A PRIVATE WAR with Rosamund Pike as conflict zone journalist Marie Colvin and the comedy INSTANT FAMILY with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne as foster parents. Paul Markoff likes Aardman Animations' holiday comedy ARTHUR CHRISTMAS.

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CREED II clip courtesy MGM

A PRIVATE WAR clip courtesy Aviron Pictures

INSTANT FAMILY clip courtesy Paramount Pictures

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS clip courtesy Sony Pictures Entertainment

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded December 2, 2018.

A teenage boy watches the marriage of his parents, played by Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, dissolve in early 1960s Montana in director and co-writer Paul Dano's WILDLIFE.

Also, as awards season is in full swing, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the merits, or lack thereof, of the withdrawn plan to introduce a Best Popular Film category at the 2019 Academy Awards.

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WILDLIFE clips courtesy IFC Films

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded November 11, 2018.

A grumpy, green hater of holiday cheer plots to steal Christmas from Whoville in a new 3D computer-animated version of Dr. Seuss' THE GRINCH. Benedict Cumberbatch voices the villain whose heart is two sizes too small.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer spotlights COLD WATER (L'EAU FROIDE), Olivier Assayas' snapshot of a sixteen-year-old boyfriend and girlfriend restless to take control of their lives in early 1970s France. Paul Markoff selects director Clint Eastwood's HEREAFTER, which connects three stories about people with mystical experiences regarding death and the afterlife.

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THE GRINCH clip courtesy Universal Pictures

HEREAFTER clip courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded November 11, 2018.