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Welcome Lindsey Olivares to chat about specificity in design, the art of caricature, clarity in comedy, and production and character designing for The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

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From the humans who brought you the Academy Award®-winning Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs.  The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family who find  themselves in the middle of their biggest family challenge yet…saving the  world from the robot apocalypse. No big deal, right? It all starts when creative  outsider Katie Mitchell is accepted into the film school of her dreams and is  eager to leave home and find “her people,” when her nature-loving dad insists  on having the whole family drive her to school and bond during one last totally not-awkward-or-forced road trip. But just when the trip can’t get any worse, the  family suddenly finds itself in the middle of the robot uprising! Everything from  smart phones, to roombas, to evil Furbys are employed to capture every human  on the planet. Now it’s up to the Mitchells, including upbeat mom Linda, quirky  little brother Aaron, their squishy pug, Monchi, and two friendly, but simple minded robots to save humanity.

More about Lindsey Olivares

She is the production designer and lead character designer on Sony Pictures Animation's Academy Award®-nominated feature “The Mitchells vs. The Machines."

Before joining Sony Pictures Animation, Olivares worked as a freelance visual development artist and illustrator with a focus on character design and caricature. Her freelance clients have included Disney Television Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Locksmith Animation, Nickelodeon, Google, Furry Puppet Studio, Titmouse, Hornet Inc, Psyop, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Facebook.

Her film credits include DreamWorks Animation’s “Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,” “Penguins of Madagascar,” and “Trolls,” as well as Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Emoji Movie” and “The Mitchells vs. the Machines.”

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Two very different musical movies this week with Peter Dinklage as Cyrano and the Foo Fighters b-horror film Studio 666. 

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Tom Holland stars in Uncharted but does he have range or is he turning into a George Clooney type - which could be a good or a bad thing... there are worse folks to be! Also Apple TV+'s Severance takes a few of us by surprise with lo-fi sci-fi.

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Fans of the video game Uncharted are probably going to have a very different experience than the uninitiated. Also Apple TV+'s Severance takes setting work / life boundaries to the extreme. 

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How the tables have turned in our The Book of Boba Fett fandoms! Also a plethora of perplexing trailers during the Super Bowl with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Moon Knight, and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Finally star power isn't enough to save Death on the Nile or Marry Me for some of us. 

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Poirot is back and as dated as ever with Death on the Nile. Then there are two "romantic comedies" in times for Valentine's Day with J.Lo's Marry Me and Charlie Day and Jenny Slate's I Want You Back. Finally Liam Neeson has his latest anemic attempt at action with Blacklight. 

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Welcome freshly minted Academy Award nominees Dan Ojari and Mikey Please to talk about their stop-motion animated short Robin Robin, Aardman Animation's production challenges, collecting habits, early filmmaking endeavors, and self-made merch. 

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When her egg fortuitously rolls into a rubbish dump, Robin is raised by a loving family of mice. As she grows up, her differences become more apparent. Robin sets off on the heist to end all heists to prove to her family that she can be a really good mouse – but ends up discovering who she really is.

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Ok NOW is it our favorite episode of The Book of Boba Fett ever with Episode 06 and some special guests? Plus Pam & Tommy asks the audience to form some questionable sympathies (so far). Finally Roland Emmerich is here with Moonfall, which is possibly his answer to 2001: A Space Odyssey??

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We know Roland Emmerich's Moonfall is going to be bad, but is it GOOD bad or BAD bad? Same goes for the cookie cutter story Book of Love. Finally Pam & Tommy is here and we have complicated feelings on it. 

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It's our favorite episode of The Book of Boba Fett yet with Episode 05! But we need to talk about space toilets. Then we've got The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window which is almost as tough to say as it was for some of us to watch. Finally it's the Real Housewives of New York 1880s edition with The Gilded Age. 

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