Co-Founder Sara Ciplickas sits down with Director Serena Dykman to discuss her recent short, Babka, premiering at HollyShorts on August 9th. In the heart of Hasidic Brooklyn, a newly blind Jewish Orthodox baker (Saul Rubinek) forms an unlikely friendship with a Queer Catholic Latino guide dog trainer (Jonny Beauchamp), embarking on an eye-opening journey to overcome personal and cultural barriers in his quest to reopen his beloved bakery. The short is also in development to become a feature film. Babka is also a nominee for the Humanitas Prize, which will be announced in September. Watch the trailer here.

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*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a segment from our watchalong of Barbarian. To watch the full conversation on video and watch along with us, subscribe to our Patreon.

Happy Weapons week to all who celebrate! One of the most anticipated movies of the year is Zach Cregger's sophomore feature, Weapons, and the follow up to his directorial debut, Barbarian. Naturally, we had to revisit Barbarian by watching along and staying together as a team at the most fucked up AirBnB you've ever seen. Take a trip to Detroit with us and listen along as we revisit Barbarian (2022) ahead of our review of Weapons (2025) this coming weekend.

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The Naked Gun has returned after the trilogy through the late 80’s and early 90’s that starred Leslie Nielsen, now featuring Liam Neeson and directed by Akiva Schaffer as only one man has the particular set of skills - to lead Police Squad and save the world. The film also stars Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, and Kevin Durand.

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Ahead of our review for The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), we lay out what's coming up on the release slate for DC and the MCU phase six, we check in with summer box office numbers for the July blockbusters, and discuss the re-release of Ne Zha 2 in IMAX theaters.

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From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected story about the trauma of modernity and the looming threat of the outsider. Set over seven hallucinatory days in an idyllic rural Scottish village, the traditional way of life for its agrarian community is suddenly disrupted when a series of unexpected invaders from the outside world bring about irrevocable – and potentially damaging – change. In our interview, we discuss Tsangari's approach to location and worldbuilding as well as the beautifully captured 16mm cinematography.

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Taking a break from their discussions on fangirling and branding, The Ladies discuss the summer’s superhero films and the newly introduced Lois Lane and Sue Storm.

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As the last piece of the July blockbuster season, The Fantastic Four: First Steps brings the family of four back to the big screen for the first time in a decade. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer. The film is directed by Matt Shakman and stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn. 

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Ahead of our Eddington review, we debrief the latest original trailer from Pixar, Hoppers, as well as Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt which is set to play at Venice and New York film festivals this fall. We also discuss the latest trends in popcorn buckets from Galactus to The Naked Gun beaver.

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Back in April we hosted our first conversation of the awards season with a way-too-early glimpse at the potential contenders ahead, and we’re now revisiting that conversation.With festival season just around the corner and conversations starting to heat up about potential contenders finding their world premieres in the fall festival cycle, today we are offering our first draft predictions for above-the-line categories including Picture, Director, and the two Screenplays and all four Performance categories. We will continue to update these predictions as the awards season picture becomes more clear on our website and podcast.

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We received the full lineup for the 82nd edition of the Venice International Film Festival and share our first reaction takeaways from the in- and out-of-competition lineups. We take an overall glimpse at how festival season is shaping up as a whole as well and select our blind picks for the top prize at Venice, the Golden Lion.

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