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Podcast
Are you Team Hooper or Spielberg?
Including Best Blog Not Tied to an Organization and Best Non-Fiction Book
Popcorn Disability
The movie that once held the record for the most disabled actors
Alexander Skarsgard and Olivia Colman are a new screen team we need more of.
Nick Antosca's script certainly understands its own limitations
Tom Cruise tries to stretch himself in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's muddled message movie
A fantastic story of friendship with a stellar voice cast.
Insider access. Unignored perspective. Film criticism that actually matters.
![Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Jacob Tremblay on Why Wildwood Is a Stop-Motion Marvel [Video]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/24/37/24372e80-8819-45cd-8a9d-4dbc679f7337/content/images/size/w600/2026/10/0800.0230.cmp.def.exr__render__techcheck.main.001.L.0034.APPROVED.jpg)
The pair discussed growing up on-screen and how AI could never do what Laika does.
Alexander Skarsgard and Olivia Colman are a new screen team we need more of.
Director Travis Knight and screenwriter Chris Butler reread for another epic fantasy
![Renate Reinsve Was Asked Not to Know the Truth in Fjord [Video]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/24/37/24372e80-8819-45cd-8a9d-4dbc679f7337/content/images/size/w600/2026/10/1-3.png)
The actress also talked about finding power in what was considered the smaller role
The transition from girl to woman isn't even, especially when you're America's Hollywood teen dream
James Whale's 1932 underrated gem gets the Ticklish Biz Halloween treatment.
And right after the Lindsay Clancy trial, too.
We also discuss critiques and when progressivism turns into extremism.
![How Liz Sargent Put a Disabled Actor at the Center of Her Film and Got Out of Her Way [Exclusive]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/24/37/24372e80-8819-45cd-8a9d-4dbc679f7337/content/images/size/w600/2026/10/1.png)
"We didn't baby her," Sargent says about her lead (and sister) in TAKE ME HOME.
Paramount and WB have finally merged. Collect your classic content while you can.
Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White try to infuse life into Sorkin's political monologuing.
September had some of the best movies I've seen all year!