It’s a movie about a bear…on cocaine. The trailer ruled, so does the movie even need to be good? Plus an update on the Oscars race after a series of guild awards. Let’s do this!

It’s free to play and has a winner-take-all prize pool of $2 per number of entrants. So get your friends to sign up and try to guess all 23 categories correctly! Also: my thoughts on “Somebody I Used To Know,” “An Affair To Remember,” and “The Forgiven”

Plus: “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” “Your Place Or Mine,” and the reality competition show I’m currently obsessed with. Long episode today!

I’ve trashed his last few movies in my newsletter, and though I enjoyed “Knock at the Cabin” more than those, I still don’t get why people seem to love this guy like they do.

Streaming services are trying like hell to bring back rom-coms. But are they succeeding? Let’s discuss.

After months of speculation we finally have our set of Oscar nominees. What do they tell us about the past and present of the movie business?

The biggest hit at the box office this month is a so-bad-it’s-good horror comedy about a murderous AI doll. What has the movie world come to.

The star-studded conversation movie from Sarah Polley takes center stage this week, as I explain how it brought me to tears. Plus Netflix’s “The Pale Blue Eye,” if you’re more into the whole Christian Bale thing.

Netflix’s strategy of carte blanche is a filmmaker’s dream, but then why do the movies feel disappointing? Let’s talk about it, through the lens of three high profile releases from late 2022.

It’s a mad dash to the end of the year and tons of new movies are dropping. Is the new “Knives Out” sequel any good? What about the new drop from one of my favs, Damien Chazelle? Guess you’ll have to listen to find out.