One encounters all sorts of things during the holiday season. Office parties, strange food, strange people. And your entertainment options are just as varied. Luckily we managed to put down our cocktails and watched some stuff to help you figure out just how to spend your precious time. We start with "Poor Things" which starsEmma Stone as Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. It's one of the stragest movies to ever grace the silver screen. So do listen to what we have to say about it. Then there's "Maestro" which chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.He's played by Bradley Cooper and she's played by Carey Mulligan and it'll soon be on Netflix. we'll also tell you about "American Fiction." It stars Jeffrey Wright as a novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. And for you mystery fans there's "Anatomy of a Fall" in which a woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness. Surely that's enough for a normal podcast but we've also got "Wonka," the prequel in which a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the candy industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers. Then there's "Saltburn." It's about a student at Oxford University whio finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten. That's just the big screen stuff. For you streaming folks there's "The Fall of the House of Usher" about two ruthless siblings who build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one. And then there's "A Murder at the End of the World" in which Darby Hart, a Gen Z amateur sleuth, attempts to solve a murder at a secluded retreat. So here's your excuse to blow off that company holiday party and listen in.