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Unfortunately unless you were part of the ride, GameStop: Rise of the Players might leave you more confused than when you started watching. Also this week brings a pair of whodunit satires with The Afterparty on Apple TV+ and the cumbersomely titled The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window on Netflix. 

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Welcome back Academy Award nominated director Erick Oh and welcome to Baobab Studios CEO Maureen Fan. We chat about their new short animated film Namoo, embracing new technology, what the metaverse will mean for storytelling, and more!

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Written and directed by Oscar®-nominated Erick Oh (Opera), Namoo is a hand-crafted, narrative poem come to life. Inspired by the passing of Erick’s grandfather, Namoo -- which translates to “Tree” in Korean -- marks Oh’s most personal work to date. The film follows the beautiful and heartbreaking moments of a man’s life, from beginning to end.

Watch Namoo now on HBO Max.

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Bantha tongues and befuddling timelines abound in The Book of Boba Fett Episode 04. Also we take on Nora Roberts' Brazen - a logic defying crime romance thriller that seems like it should have been on Lifetime not Netflix.

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What is The King's Daughter? How did it get Julie Andrews to narrate!? Where in the mermaid hell did it come from?! Find out! Also Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock is here to continue Jim Henson's legacy with poise and positivity.

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Welcome Academy Award nominated director Alberto Mielgo to discuss his new animated film The Windshield Wiper, his road from self-taught concept artist to director, why NFTs are a form of rebellion, and his time on Love Death + Robots' The Witness and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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Inside a café, after lunch and while smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, a middle-aged man asks himself and the audience an ambitious question: What is Love? A collection of vignettes and situations will lead the man to the desired conclusion. Presented by Pastel, Leo Sanchez Studio and Pinkman.tv, the film made its world premiere as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight. The film was written, designed and directed by three-time Emmy winner Alberto Mielgo (Love Death + Robots’ The Witness, Tron: Uprising) and produced by Mielgo and veteran character designer Leo Sanchez (The Croods: A New Age, Over the Moon, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Tangled).

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Alberto is a Spanish born director. His projects include Gorillaz, Harry Potter,  The Beatles RockBand cinematic intro, Tron Uprising, Love Death and Robots… and more. He founded Pinkman.tv, an independent creative group. 

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We had an abundance of streaming goodies to watch with The Book of Boba Fett Episode 03, the freshly dropped Moon Knight trailer, James Gunn's bonkers Peacemaker Episodes 01 - 03, and finally season 2 of Netflix's Cheer. 

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Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is relentlessly zany and we're not sure who it's for. Peacemaker is committed to chaotic absurdity and Cheer Season 2 on Netflix takes place in a much darker world than season 1, but does it retain it's joy?

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So The Book of Boba Fett is just Dune, right? Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut The Lost Daughter has us evaluating motherhood. Also what's up with the winners of the clandestine feeling 2022 Golden Globes? 

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The year is off to a rocky start with the spy thriller The 355. Thankfully there are some awards contenders from 2021 that are seeing a wider release including Drive My Car and Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers.

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New year, same us! We're starting things off in the Star Wars universe with The Book of Boba Fett episode 01. We take a look at the highs and lows of our 2021 viewing and the smorgasbord of Marvel projects we got. Finally Joel Coen takes on the Bard in The Tragedy of Macbeth.  

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