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This week we've got expert musical improvisors Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino with us to discuss a movie about a middle school musical gone way off course, at the hands of a drama teacher pushed to the edge. Part comedy, part film noir, it's the feature debut of director Giselle Bonilla, and it was a Sundance premiere. THE MUSICAL! Then we talk about other films that use film noir tropes to comedic ends, and pitch some actually-pretty-genius new movies in that genre too.
Look out for Jess and Zach's movie, Mock Trial
Listen to Off Book (or see it live!)
What’s Good
Alonso - Get your colonoscopy!
Drea - Bob the Drag Queen even makes the Love Island Reunion show fun
Jess - The Gilded Age on a plane
Zach - The Wolves of Glendale, Go to the Woods
Kevin - seeing the Rams live
ITIDIC
AMC Burbank Pepper-Spray Guy: Villain or Hero?
New California Post Production Tax Credit Becomes Law
Staff Pick
Alonso - You Had to Be There
Jess - Original Cast Album: Company (w/”Co-Op” double feature)
Drea - The Incomer
Zach - The Court Jester
Kevin - Resident Evil

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Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde
Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

The stars of the original Practical Magic stars are back (at least, most of them) and just as cursed as ever. We have Hollywood Reporter TV Critic Angie Han with us to weigh in on whether this film left us feeling charmed, or like we'd been hit by a truck. Then, in honor of a family that has two sisters in every generation, we have a movie quiz about two-sister films!
What’s Good?
Alonso - Meg Stalter’s Emmys ensemble
Drea - uno spaghetto
Angie - TrüFrü Dark and White Chocolate Covered Freeze Dried Strawberries
Kevin - Movie theater seat snobbery
ITIDIC
‘Woman Unknown’ Wins Venice Film Festival
MPA Projects Proposed Federal Tax Credit would Add 143,000 Film & TV Jobs
Staff Picks
Drea - If I Go Will They Miss Me
Alonso - Now, Voyager
Angie - The History of Concrete
Kevin - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Here's a Letterboxd list of Two- and Three-Sister Movies

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Alonso Duralde
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Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Casper Kelly might be most famous for his this-shouldn't-be-so-creepy comedy short "Too Many Cooks." Now he's got his feature directorial debut on his hands (but don't sleep on Yule Log 2, according to Alonso), and It's Buddy, a comedy horror that owes a debt of gratitude to the insistent cheerfulness of Barney the Dinosaur. We'll get into all that, and then talk about some of our favorite times TV crossed over onto the big screens.
What's Good:
Alonso: kouign amann
Drea: Minnesota State Fair
Kevin: Costco belt
ITIDIC
• Summer U.S. Box Office Hits All-Time $4.76B Record: How Audiences Surrendered To Moviegoing
• Telluride’s Top-Secret Film Was a Documentary and people are abuzz (You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes doc)
Staff Picks:
Alonso: We Are Pat
Drea: Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
Kevin: Colony (Gunche)

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Shelved after completion in 2023, COYOTE VS. ACME has finally detonated onto big screens everywhere. We have director David Kittredge (whose doc BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL is finally making it to theaters as well!) with us to follow this courtroom-drama-by-way-of-Merrie-Melodies. Then we'll talk about the fictional lawsuits that the characters of other films might have on their hands.
What’s Good
Alonso - But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition by Kristen Lopez
Drea - Daisy Chain Fields Festival (link is to non-profit beneficiaries if you want to donate!)
David - Boorman and the Devil on the big screen, and people going back to the cinemas
Kevin - French press coffee
ITIDIC
New AMC Theaters Venture Aims to Put Smaller Films on Big Screen
Remembering Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, Movie Stars
Staff Picks
Alonso: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Drea: Hadestown: the Musical
David: Buffet Infinity and Buddy
Kevin: The End of Oak Street



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Kevin Avery
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Alonso Duralde
Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

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The main character of TONY is Anthony Bourdain, but Matt Johnson’s latest film is not exactly a biopic. We have film critic Katie Walsh with us to discuss Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, and the rest of the kitchen crew in this unusual coming of age movie. Then we’ll think up some other personalities we’d like to see inspire coming-of-age/early-life pics.

What’s Good

Drea: actors with real teeth

Katie: Matt Johnson’s biceps

Kevin: finding childhood books (Chilling Ghost Stories, and Choose Your Own Adventure: The Cave of Time and Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons)

ITIDIC

Sold-Out Silent Film Fest Showcases Brand New Silent Films

IndieWire: The Prescience of Disney’s Direct-to-Video Sequels

Staff Picks
Drea: The Cycle of Love
Katie: The Rivals of Amziah King
Kevin: The Conversation

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With
Kevin Avery
Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde
Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher