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Awards deadlines approach so it's a supersized episode for the last reviews of 2021! Don't Look Up, The Lost Daughter, and The Tragedy of Macbeth are all vying hard for accolades. The King's Man doesn't seem to be vying for anything (including logic). As for some lighter fare there's also the Beanie Baby documentary Beanie Mania and the new dating show Single's Inferno.

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It's our last Roundtable of 2021! Did the Hawkeye season finale leave you feeling the holiday spirit? Did Lana Wachowski NEED (or even want) to make The Matrix Resurrections? Finally is Adam McKay's Don't Look Up palatable while we're still in "it"?

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Time to enter The Matrix Resurrections but are some things better left dead? Plus Aaron Sorkin delivers his take on I Love Lucy with Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos. Finally in other sequel news Sing 2 is a bonkers film that we're not sure who it's for?

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We're diving into all things Marvel (and spoilers) with Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye Episode 05! Not caught up yet? Swing back to us when you are - we want you to enjoy all the things! Plus Guillermo Del Toro's latest film, Nightmare Alley, makes us re-evaluate his entire filmography. 

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The long awaited Spider-Man: No Way Home is here but does the web slinger live up to the hype? Also Guillermo Del Toro heads to the carnival with his cast of acting legends in Nightmare Alley. 

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After watching Episode 04 of Marvel's Hawkeye we're wondering what the statute of limitations is on actors spoiling their appearances in projects? Also Steven Spielberg could have chosen to do ANYTHING but he chose to remake West Side Story... and finally we suffered through the first two episodes of the Sex and the City sequel, And Just Like That and need to know what planet the women have been living on since the show ended, cause it ain't Earth.

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Welcome directors Clare Knight and Harry Cripps for their new animated Australian adventure, Back to the Outback. We discuss moving from editorial or writing to directing, common misconceptions, and spooky creatures. 

More about Back to the Outback:

A ragtag group of the world's deadliest creatures - and one cute but utterly obnoxious koala - escape from a Sydney zoo to find their home in the Outback, where they'll be loved for who they are and not what they look like.

Starring: Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Miranda Tapsell, Angus Imrie, Keith Urban, Aislinn Derbez, Diesel La Torraca, Jack Charles, Celeste Barber, Gia Carides, Rachel House, Wayne Knight, Aaron Pedersen, Lachlan Power, Kylie Minogue, Kiara Marr, and Jacki Weaver.

More about Clare Knight:

Clare Knight A.C.E. (née Clare de Chenu) is Net ix Animation’s first female director taking the helm of Back to the Outback alongside director Harry Cripps. She was previously best known for her work as Lead Editor of the entire Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda franchise. She was also at the editorial helm for the Lego franchise on Lego 2: The Second Part.

More about Harry Cripps:

Born in Sydney, Australia, Harry attended the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne. After he graduated he started his career, creating, writing and directing plays in Melbourne and Sydney, and developing TV series for Fox Studios Australia. He worked at Dreamworks Animation from 2012-2017 on several animated  lms including Kung Fu Panda 3 and his own original screenplay Larrikins. He recently adapted Penguin Bloom and The Dry.

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Steven Spielberg takes his shot at West Side Story but is it really a story that needed retelling? Also Sean Baker once again turns his cinematic eye to overlooked communities and wholly formed characters in Red Rocket.

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Time for a holiday representation extravaganza. We're loving Echo on Marvel's Hawkeye. Also it's a holiday romance palooza with FIVE new absurd films. Three Vanessa Hudgens in The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, two quinquagenarians in A Castle for Christmas, three AAPI leads in Love Hard, aaaallllllll of RuPaul's drag queens in The Bitch Who Stole Christmas, and a Jennifer Coolidge in a pear tree in Single All the Way. 

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Welcome documentarian Debbie Lum to chat about her new film Try Harder!, college admissions, high school superlatives, and the ongoing process of Asian-American Pacific Islander representation on screen.

More about Try Harder!:

San Francisco’s Lowell High, one of the best public schools in the country, draws high achievers--nearly 70% Asian Americans--from across the city into a fiercely competitive universe. The camera follows seniors through the hallways and into classrooms as the pressure intensifies to impress admissions officers at elite universities with their report cards, test scores, and overall awesomeness. The students proudly own their identity as nerds and tell their stories with candor and humor despite the stress. Will they achieve their dreams? What happens if they fail?

More about Debbie Lum:

Debbie Lum is an award-winning San Francisco-based filmmaker whose projects give voice to the Asian American experience and other unsung stories. SEEKING ASIAN FEMALE, her feature-length directing debut premiered at SXSW, aired on PBS' Independent Lens and won numerous awards, including Best of Fest (Silverdocs), Best Feature Documentary (CAAMFest) and Outstanding Director (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival). It was also profiled on PRI’s This American Life. The film was a “fan favorite” on PBS and alongside its broadcast premiere, Lum launched theyreallsobeautiful.com, a companion website and 5-part short video series about race and dating. Previously she worked as a documentary editor; her editing credits include A.K.A DON BONUS (winner, National Emmy), KELLY LOVES TONY (nominee, IDA Best Documentary), which she also co-produced and TO YOU SWEETHEART, ALOHA (winner, Audience Award, VC LA Film Festival). She has also written and directed several short comedies, CHINESE BEAUTY, A GREAT DEAL! and ONE APRIL MORNING, which screened at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival among many others. She has an M.F.A in Cinema from San Francisco State University, a B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and completed the CPB Producer’s Workshop at WGBH.

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