Since it’s been a hot minute since our last show, we thought we would kick things off with a “quick” overview of what we’ve been watching and then follow it up with a mid-year top 5 alas, our “quick check-in” turned out to be an hour long so we’ve split the show into two.
In part one, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram) dig into a plethora of titles, from new Mission Impossible to season 2 of “The Bear.”
Films discussed in this episode:
- The Flash
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Nimona
- Blue Jean
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
- No Hard Feelings
- Elemental
- Asteroid City
- Hypnotic
- Past Lives
- The Mother
- Blue Bayou
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
- The Covenant
- Mafia Mamma
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Creed III
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Sisu
- “The Bear” Season 2
- “The Idol“
Other notable things we touched on this episode:
- Film 4’s Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One video
- Book mentioned by Melissa: “Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma” by Claire Dederer
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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:05 – The Flash
00:12:31 – Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
00:13:55 – Nimona
00:20:40 – Blue Jean
00:33:45 – Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
00:43:41 – No Hard Feelings
00:45:22 – Elemental
00:51:53 – Asteroid City
00:52:51 – Hypnotic
00:54:41 – Past Lives
00:56:04 – The Mother
00:34:08 – Blue Bayou
00:36:08 – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
00:39:11 – The Covenent
00:39:57 – Mafia Momma
00:40:40 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
00:44:39 – Creed III
00:48:12 – How to Blow Up a Pipeline
00:49:00 – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
00:55:09 – Sisu
00:57:10 – “The Bear” Season 2
01:00:02 – “The Idol”