After The Credits

Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd) is in quarantine (sort of) this week but the Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Blusky) still managed to ramble on about a bunch of movies and television they’ve seen lately.

What we’ve been watching:

• Good Burger 2
• Back in Action
• Wolf Man
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• Nightbitch
• Hard Truths
• The Monk and the Gun
• The Last Showgirl
• Flight Risk
• American Movie
• Never Look Away
• The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
• Dog Man
• Universal Language
• The Order
• Star Trek: Section 31
• Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
• Den of Thieves: Pantera
• September 5
• The Colors Within
• The Brutalist
• Companion
• 2073
• Instinct
• Kneecap
• You’re Cordially Invited
• “American Primeval“
• “Paradise“
• “Severence“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 335: Now with 25% Less Tariffs

Hot on the heels of the Oscar nominations, the team has put together their list of favourite movies of last year and let’s just say that there are some… discrepancies.

Join Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) as they count down their favourite movies of the year.

Steve’s Top 10:

10. Strange Darling
9. Monkey Man
8. Longlegs
7. A Complete Unknown
6. Challengers
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
4. Listen to find out
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

The rest: Flow, The Wild Robot, Queer, Nosferatu, Maria, The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Love Lies Bleeding, Heretic, Late Night with the Devil, Bird, Better Man

Bill’s Top 10:

10. Ghostlight
9. The Substance
8. Anora
7. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Strange Darling
5. A Complete Unknown
4. Listen to find out
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

The rest: Longlegs, The Brutalist, Better Man, Saturday Night, Late Night with the Devil, Bird, Nosferatu, Conclave, Memoir of a Snail, Sasquatch Sunset

Marina’s Top 10:

10. Memoir of a Snail
9. Monkey Man
8. Nickel Boys
7. The Wild Robot
6. Flow
5. Conclave
4. Listen to find out
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

The rest: Dune: Part Two, Alien: Romulus, Immaculate, The Order, Black Box Diaries, A Real Pain, I Am: Celine Dion, Ghostlight, The Substance

Melissa’s Top 10:

10. Babygirl
9. Queer
8. The Substance
7. My Old Ass
6. The People’s Joker
5. Secret Mall Apartment
4. Listen to find out
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

The rest: Strange Darling, Love Lies Bleeding, A Real Pain, Challengers, Dune: Part Two, Flow, Bird, Singing Back the Buffalo, Matt and Mara, Dahomey

Other things mentioned this episode:

• Brady Corbet & Sean Baker conversation
• Director’s roundtable conversation
• The Substance making of featurette

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 334: The 2024 Countdown

Hello 2025!

We kick off the year with a newly updated opening and closing theme however, the many many movies we talk about remain the same. Join us as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) chat about the newly revamped Golden Globes and also dig into a long list of movies, kicking things off with Babygirl.

What we’ve been watching:

• Babygirl
• Y2K
• Girls State
• Boys State
• Bird
• Die Alone
• Mufasa
• Seven
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Sugarcane
• Banel & Adama
• A Real Pain
• The Settlers
• The Room Next Door
• Better Man
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
• A Complete Unknown
• Dear Santa
• Carry-On
• Beatles ’64
• An Urban Allegory
• The People’s Joker
• When Harry Met Sally…
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Nosferatu
• Werewolves
• “Yellowstone“
• “Squid Game”
• “The Diplomat“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 333: Welcome to the New Year

It’s the final show of the year and we’ve nearly watched all of the things! Those we want to see that is!

Join us for this special Christmas episode as (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) fawn over Maria and dig into the The Brutalist.

What we’ve been watching:

• Maria
• The Brutalist
• Carry-On
• Kraven The Hunter
• Elton John: Never Too Late
• The End
• All We Imagine as Light
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3
• Janet Planet
• Problemista
• Queer
• The Order
• The Girl With the Needle
• Flow
• Black Box Diaries
• Hard Truths
• The Room Next Door
• Better Man
• Nutcrackers
• The Trailer Park Boys: Standing on the Shoulder of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story
• A Complete Unknown
• Blue Rodeo: Lost Together

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 332: This is the End

It was a bit touch-and-go when it came to selecting this week’s movie but in the end, the team not only came to an agreement but they may have found one of the best films of the year in the process.

Take a listen as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd, Instagram) discuss Nickel Boys.

What we’ve been watching:

• Nickel Boys
• Subservience
• Conclave
• Inkwo For When the Starving Return
• A Complete Unknown
• Bookworm
• Red One
• Private Benjamin
• Sing Sing
• Wilfred Buck
• Werewolves
• Nosferatu
• The Return
• Beatles ’64
• Moana 2
• Blitz
• Joy
• Magpie
• Juror #2
• The Fire Inside
• Mary
• That Christmas
• Oh, Canada
• “Interior Chinatown“
• “It’s a Spongebob Christmas“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 331: Out of Nowhere

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:

3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

Steve’s Top 5:

5. Presence
4. A Different Man
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

Melissa’s Top 5:

5. Fréwaka
4. Matt and Mara
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

Chloe’s Top 5:

5. Conclave
4. A Different Man
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

Bill’s Top 5:

5. Happyend
4. The Girl with the Needle
3. Listen to find out
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

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