After the Credits Podcast Network

The marketing gurus were onto something. While this isn’t exactly “Barbenheimer,” the releases of Gladiator II and Wicked certainly got people out to the theatres… even us.

This week, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) dig into Gladiator II – and we’re still not convinced it was the “better” choice.

What we’ve been watching:

• Gladiator II
• Heretic
• Memoir of a Snail
• Lady from Shanghai
• The Ghost Writer
• Saturday Nigh
• My Old Ass
• Ghostlight
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Wild Robot
• The Terminator
• Juror #2
• Wicked
• Beatles ‘64
• A Real Pain
• The Last Showgirl
• Oh, Canada
• Street Trash
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• American Werewolf in London
• Alien: Romulus
• Megalopolus
• Lee
• Smile 2
• “Dune: Prophecy“
• “Law & Order“
• “Interior Chinatown“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 330: Don’t Do It!

In that weird time between the end of festival season and the beginning of holiday movie season occasionally brings with it some interesting titles – case in point: Heretic.

Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website) wasn’t able to catch this week’s movie but join Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they dig into a spoiler free discussion of the movie.

What we’ve been watching:

• Absolution
• We Live in Time
• About Dry Grasses
• Frankie Freako
• Getting Lost
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeves Story
• Here
• Blackbox Diaries
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Peacemaker
• The Babysitter
• Doc of Chucky
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Anora
• Don’t Move
• Tremors
• Memoir of a Snail
• Open Your Mouth and Say… Mr. Chi Pig
• Martha
• High & Low: John Galiano
• Time Cut
• A Mistake
• Piece by Piece
• The Apprentice

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 329: Do You Believe?

How did we end up here? At a show that runs just over two hours? Well, it’s been over a month since the team has come together to talk about what they’ve been watching and hence, we’ve ended up with this super sized episode.

Join Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, X), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they dig into The Substance as well as a long (long) list of other films.

• The Substance
• The Outrun
• Slingshot
• Balestra
• The Radleys
• Firebrand
• Lonely Planet
• Woman of the Hour
• Child Star
• Society of the Snow
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Megalopolis
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• The Apprentice
• Will & Harper
• Transformers One
• Piece by Piece
• Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
• Antlers
• Smile 2
• Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
• The China Syndrome
• All the President’s Men
• Goodrich
• Oddity
• Venom: The Last Dance
• The Bikeriders
• The Platform
• Escape Room
• The Fly
• The Thing
• The Chef & the Daruma
• Wolfs
• The 4:30 Movie
• Terrifier 3
• V/H/S Beyond
• The Wild Robot
• We Live in Time
• Apartment 7A
• It’s What’s Inside
• The Changeling
• “Perfect Wife“
• “The Penguin“
• “Mr. McMahon“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 328: So Many Movies

The 2024 edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival has come and gone. The team took a week to recover (and editor Marina took an additional week to edit – oops) but here we are: a final wrap on this year’s festival.

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, X), Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) and special guest Chloe Stebbing, as we the team counts down their festival favourites.

For more fun, check out:

• Steve & Chloe’s YouTube wrap of VIFF

Marina’s Top 3:

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Steve’s Top 5:

5. Presence
4. A Different Man
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Melissa’s Top 5:

5. Fréwaka
4. Matt and Mara
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Chloe’s Top 5:

5. Conclave
4. A Different Man
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Bill’s Top 5:

5. Happyend
4. The Girl with the Needle
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The rest:
6. Saturday Night
7. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
8. Secret Mall Apartment
9. Conclave
10. Universal Language

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 327: VIFF 2024 Wrap

The Vancouver International Film Festival is in full swing and while the ATC team has been seeing movies, we haven’t managed to connect for an update.

But not to worry, that all changes now as Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) return to the old days of on-the-fly recordings with this VIFF catch up session where we talk about some of the films we’ve seen including a few highlights – Anora, The Girl with the Needle, The Seed of the Sacred Fig – and a few lowlights. But you’ll need to listen to the show for those

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 326: VIFFing 2024 Style

Jeremy Saulnier is back in fine form with his latest thriller Rebel Ridge!

Join Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, X), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they dig into the director’s latest film and the team selects five titles they’re excited to see at this year Vancouver International Film Festival.

• Rebel Ridge
• Kinds of Kindness
• My First Film
• Dìdi
• Skincare
• The Exorcism
• Baltimore
• Treasure
• The Crow
• His Three Daughters
• The Front Room
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• True Lies
• The Descendants
• The Critic
• Speak No Evil
• Somewhere
• To the End
• Hellhole
• Uglies
• “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos“
• “Kaos“

VIFF Picks

• Marina’s Picks:
  • Presence
  • Anora
  • Nightbitch
  • Bird
  • Secret Mall Apartment

• Steve’s Picks:
  • Bird
  • Presence
  • Anora
  • Timestalker
  • A Different Man

• Chloe’s Picks:
  • Presence
  • A Different Man
  • Brief History of a Family
  • Seeds
  • Marco, the Invented Truth

• Bill’s Picks:
  • Nightbitch
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Conclave
  • The End
  • Anora

• Melissa’s Picks:
  • Seeds
  • Timestalker
  • Mat and Mara
  • Paying for It
  • Dahomey

• Animated Picks:
  • Flow
  • Rock Bottom

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 325: On the Ridge of VIFF

The team reunites for a discussion of one of the best movies of the year: Strange Darling.

Join Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, X), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as dig into JT Mollner’s new movie, Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice and a load of other new titles.

• Strange Darling
• The Crow
• Ride
• Paris Blues
• The Deliverance
• Get Shorty
• Blink Twice
• Dìdi
• Sing Sing
• The Killer
• Deaner’ 89
• Twisters
• Hit Man
• MaXXXine
• Longlegs
• Bande à part
• Pierrot le Fou
• Rolling Thunder
• Greedy People
• Ghostlight
• A Sacrifice
• Milk & Serial
• Trap
• “Watchmen Chapter I“
• “Only Murders in the Building“
• “Terminator Zero“
• “Industry“

Other things mentioned this episode:

• “Cinema Speculation” by Quentin Tarantino

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 324: Quite the Calling Card

Join us this week as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) discuss Fede Álvarez’s latest Hollywood horror franchise with… mixed results.

At least we can all agree that the Alien: Romulus score is pretty amazing.

• Alien: Romulus
• The Instigators
• Thelma
• Daddio
• The Convert
• Wildcat
• Fly Me to the Moon
• National Anthem
• MaXXXine
• Cuckoo
• Good One
• The Union
• My Penguin Friend
• Jackpot!
• Between the Temples
• Kneecap
• Sugarcane

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 323: Sorting “Alien” Movies

Summer movie season is in full swing and this week, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) dig into two of the biggest openings of the summer so far: Twisters and the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman bromance that is Deadpool & Wolverine.

• Twisters
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Twister
• Trap
• Young Woman and the Sea
• Babes
• The Last Stop in Yuma County
• Kneecap
• Purple Rain
• A Ghost Waits
• National Anthem
• Ghostlight
• I Am: Celine Dion
• A Family Affair
• Rite Here Rite Now
• Tuesday
• Bad Boys: Ride or Die
• I Saw the TV Glow
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• “How Music Got Free“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 322: Glen Powell FTW

Does Osgood Perkins manage to deliver “the scariest movie of the decade” or are the critics overhyping?

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they delve deep into Perkins’ latest horror offering as well a number of other horror films including MaXXXine, A Quiet Place: Day One and one of the crazy classics Possession.

• Longlegs
• MaXXXine
• The Bikeriders
• Brats
• City of Hope
• Mother
• Black Barbie
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• Carlos
• A Family Affair
• Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
• The Boys in the Boat
• The Devil’s Bath
• Fly Me to the Moon
• Ratcatcher
• Kinds of Kindness
• Aggro Dr1ft
• Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
• Thelma
• Kalki 2898 AD
• Kill
• IF
• Back to Black
• Babes
• In A Violent Nature
• Possession
• I Am: Celine Dion
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• “Outer Range“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 321: Shocked the Hell Out of Me