Author: Marina

Happy New Year friends! The holidays have brought with them a load of movie-watching and while we didn’t coordinate a main review for the first episode of the year, we are pleased to present an extensive list of recent releases and awards hopefuls.

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they unload a plethora of thoughts on many a movie.

Films discussed in this episode:

• Dumb Money
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
• Wonka
• The Color Purple
• The Wandering Earth
• The Wandering Earth 2
• What Happens Later
• The Exorcist: Believer
• Maestro
• Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
• Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
• The Iron Claw
• Dream Scenario
• Ferrari
• Thanksgiving
• Butcher’s Crossing
• The Platform
• Daniel Isn’t Real
• Titane
• American Fiction
• Freud’s Last Session
• Eileen
• Suitable Flesh
• Godzilla Minus One
• Anyone But You
• Poor Things
• The Boys in the Boat
• The Zone of Interest
• The Burial
• Sharper
• Bank of Dave
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
• I Used to Be Funny
• The Taste of Things

Also discussed in this episode:

• Marina’s interview with Sam Fell

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 312: Happy New Year!

After a few episodes of MIA team members, the entire crew is back together for this, the last episode before the holiday, to talk about a long list of titles, from newly available titles to a few that will be released over the coming weeks but first, we jump right into it with a look at Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, X, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, X), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, X), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they dive into the movies.

Films discussed in this episode:

• Saltburn
• Leave the World Behind
• May December
• Family Switch
• Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
• Napoleon
• Good Burger
• Blow the Man Down
• Thanksgiving
• Next Goal Wins
• Dream Scenario
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
• Manodrome
• The Boys in the Boat
• American Fiction
• The Holdovers
• Beau is Afraid
• Maestro
• Ferrari
• Suzume
• 299 Queen Street West
• Godzilla Minus One
• Killers of the Flower Moon

Also discussed in this episode:

• Sam Esmail’s Letterboxd

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 311: The More You Know

This wasn’t intended to be a Michael Fassbender love-fest but it’s difficult not to be entranced by his performances and while we do take it a bit far, all in good fun we promise, the truth remains that he is one of the best actors of current times as is proven in his latest performance in The Killer.

Join (Letterboxd, Twitter), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they fawn over Fassbender and then break away long enough to talk about some other movies.

Films discussed in this episode:

• The Killer
• Landscape with Invisible Hand
• Theatre Camp
• No One Will Save You
• Love at First Sight
• The Creator
• It Lives Inside
• Totally Killer
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Holdovers
• Dark Harvest
• Flora and Son
• Milli Vanilli
• Sly
• Foe
• The Marvels
• Fair Play
• Nyad
• Pain Hustlers
• The Exorcist: Believer
• Priscilla
• Five Nights At Freddy’s
• Scrapper
• Quiz Lady
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Also discussed in this episode:

• Michael Fassbender racing

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 310: Michael Fassbender Doing Yoga

We were already a little late with this show when it was supposed to go live last week but technical difficulties behind the scenes delayed it another week meaning that this is now less of a VIFF Top 5 and more of a “here are some amazing festival titles you need to be looking out for during awards season (and a few you should avoid)”.

Join Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they count down their festival faves.

Films discussed in this episode:

Steve’s List:

5. The Promised Land
4. The Royal Hotel
3. Anatomy of a Fall
2. The Old Oak
1. Monster

Marina’s List:

5. The Old Oak
4. Monster
3. Raging Grace
2. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
1. Red Rooms

Bill’s List:

5. The Old Oak
4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
3. Monster
2. Red Rooms
1. The Zone of Interest

Melissa’s List:

5. Green Border
4. Red Rooms
3. The Old Oak
2. I Used to Be Funny
1. Robot Dreams

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 309: VIFF Thoughts

While it starts off with some consensus, this week’s episode of the show soon devolves into heated and sometimes contentious discussions but it’s all good – in the end all discussions are good discussions.

Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) take on the rating bodies and argue about how good the new TMNT is.

Films discussed in this episode:

Other things mentioned this episode:

• Passages
• Meg 2: The Trench
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• War Pony
• Sound of Freedom
• The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
• Aporia
• Heart of Stone
• Dreaming Wild
• Metalocalypse
• Haunted Mansion
• Gran Turismo
• Last Voyage of Demeter
• Barbie
• RoboCop
• The Matrix Revolutions
• To Catch a Killer
• Hypnotic
• Past Lives
• The Mistress

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Sony’s Creator Session on Gran Turismo from SIGGRAPH 2023

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 308: Stealing Bill’s Thunder

So as it turns out, the true saviour of the box office wasn’t a three-hour odyssey exploring the rise and fall of a genius and the devastation he brought upon the world but instead, a shades-of-pink-and-neon movie featuring the most famous doll in the world.

Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram) dive deep into the two big releases of the month along with a batch of other recent releases.

Films discussed in this episode:

• Oppenheimer
• Barbie
• They Cloned Tyrone
• The Deepest Breath
• The Beanie Bubble
• Polite Society
• Haunted Mansion
• Talk to Me
• Shortcomings
• About My Father
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Reality
• Joy Ride
• The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
• “I’m a Virgo“
• “Hijack“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 307: Not Far Enough