After The Credits

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

Picking up where we left off in part one, part two of the episode sees Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram) sharing their favourite films of the year so far as well as a look ahead at what’s opening over the coming weeks.

Marina’s Top 5:

5. M3GAN
4. BlackBerry
3. Air
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Bill’s Top 5:

5. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
3. Past Lives
2. Listen to find out
1. Listen to find out

Melissa’s Top 5:

5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. Infinity Pool
3. Pamela, A Love Story
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1. Listen to find out

Steve’s Top 5:

5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. BlackBerry
3. Beau is Afraid
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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 306B: The Mid-Year Check In

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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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 306A: Catching Up

Has the best movie of the year actually come out in May? If this episode of the podcast is any indication, the answer to that question is a resounding yes. At least for two of the hosts!

In this month’s episode of After the Credits, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter) dig into Nicole Holofcener’s new dramedy You Hurt My Feelings while Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram) listens on. And then… things get interesting.

Other films discussed in this episode:

• You Hurt My Feelings
• Kandahar
• The Little Mermaid
• Fast X
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• The Wrath of Becky
• Reality
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• Dark Nature
• The Lost King
• Rogue Agent
• BlackBerry

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 305: The Best Movie Since Dune

In this month’s episode of After the Credits, Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter) dig into two new releases of the last few weeks: Evil Dead Rise and Beau is Afraid – along with a batch of other new and notable titles.

Other films discussed in this episode:

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• BlackBerry
• Master Gardener
• The Strays
• Renfield
• Suzume
• Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Monica
• Riceboy Sleeps
• Rosie

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 304: Director Catharsis

Melissa returns and we still run long! Though this time there’s a little more cohesiveness to the discussion.

In this month’s episode of After the Credits, (Letterboxd, Instagram), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter) dig into two of the biggest recent releases: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and John Wick: Chapter 4.

Other films discussed in this episode:

• Tetris
• Creed III
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Air
• 65
• Scream VI
• Shazam! Fury of the Gods
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Marcell the Shell with Shoes On
• Rye Lane
• I See You
• Missing
• “Beef“

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 303: Physical Media Fail

Disclaimer: alcohol may have been consumed during the recording of this episode which may account for how the conversations quickly move from subject to subject. Either that, or the fact that Melissa wasn’t available for this one. She’s the glue that keeps it all together!

Anywho, in this episode of the show Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter) unpack Cocaine Bear.

Other films discussed in this episode:

• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
• Medieval
• Project Wolf Hunting
• Magic Mike’s Last Dance
• Creed III
• Your Place or Mine

Also mentioned:

• Kings article in Vulture

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 302: So Much Cocaine

In this month’s episode of After the Credits, Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram), Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter) take a deep dive into Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool.

Other films discussed in this episode:

• Kids vs. Aliens
• Knock at the Cabin
• You People
• Close
• Alice, Darling
• JUNG_E
• A Man Called Otto
• Blonde

Also mentioned:

• Bergman Island
• Crimes of the Future
• Killing Them Softly
• Slash/Back
• Triangle of Sadness
• Jeff Barnaby Fund

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Continue reading After the Credits Episode 301: Unhinged Vacations