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Wow you can see everything inside this whale’s stomach! That’s an unconfirmed quote by Austin Abrams but also the title of the third double feature in our month-long cross-programming celebration. 
It’s arguably one of the busiest release weekends of the entire calendar year with no shortage of titles from Street Fighter to Sense and Sensibility to the restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils all happening now. This week, however, we’ve opted to stare deep into the ocean blue eyes of Elizabeth Holmes and go out to sea with Austin Abrams and his daddy issues in Whalefall and You Can See Everything. 
Whalefall is written and directed by Brian Duffield and follows a scuba diver who, while looking for his father's remains, is swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has just one hour to get out before his oxygen runs out. 
You Can See Everything is co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim following Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her family during the thirty-four days before she's sent to prison. 
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Steven Soderbergh to take over directing The Batman 2
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Derrick Murray
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Kam Ryan
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Yale, written by Philadelphia native Van Billet and directed by Jay Silverman, tells the true story of Billet’s grandfather, Yale Parker (Kevin Dunn), a burlesque comedian and serial bigamist who walked out on several families. It’s told through his daughter Mackenzie (Caitlin McGee), who has to face the father who abandoned her as the last-ditch effort to find a donor kidney for her dying son.
We're joined by both Billet and Silverman to discuss their personal and professional stories surrounding the making of the film ahead of its premiere in the "Filmadelphia" section of the 35th Philadelphia Film Festival. 
Yale screens Friday, October 16 at 7:30 PM, and again Saturday, October 24 at 5:15 PM at the Philadelphia Film Society Center.
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Listen up, divas. This month on Read Receipts we’re diving deep into Colleen Hoover’s sick, twisted mind for a movie vs. book analysis of Verity. 
Read Receipts is a big screen book club from The Rolling Tape where we read a book and watch its onscreen adaptation. Our first episode was on Wuthering Heights, so if we could handle that, we can make it through Colleen Hoover’s 2018 psychological erotic thriller Verity. 
We dive into our thoughts on the book vs. the film, what we think of Colleen Hoover’s writing, Dakota Johnson’s acting, and more.
Verity stars Anne Hathaway as Verity Crawford, Dakota Johnson as Lowen Ashleigh, and Josh Hartnett as Jeremy Crawford – the film is directed by Michael Showalter, and written by Nick Antosca.
A quick little ditty about the book: it was originally self-published in 2018, and it was eventually republished, in 2021, due to a surge in popularity, thanks to our good ol’ friend BookTok. It was a departure for Colleen Hoover as she typically focused on romance, not thrillers. 
So, spoilers ahead for both the movie and book, Verity.
Our Guest:
Ashley Hatzenbihler
On this episode:
Kasey Dunifer
Sasha Raquel
Risa Bolash
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See our full Oscar board predictions here.
Welcome to October and award season! The major fall film festivals have wrapped up, from Venice and Telluride to TIFF and now the New York Film Festival. So many anticipated awards contenders have premiered, delivering receptions that have either surprised us or validated what we’ve been thinking about them all year.
We’ve seen the premieres of Wild Horse Nine, Elsinore, The Debut, I Play Rocky, Being Heumann, Behemoth!, and Artificial, among others. Meanwhile, theatrical studio films like The Social Reckoning and Digger have seen their awards-season momentum stall based on critical reception. 
As a result we're focusing on our Best Picture predictions this episode discussing the studios and films competing for the 10 slots and the state of our current predictions and on-the-bubble contenders.
The last time we did our Best Picture analysis was back in August with Dean Coburn, when we ran through our top predictions across the major Oscar categories. But now it’s time for a postmortem on festival season for what’s changed in our Best Picture lineup: what we’ve added, what we’ve dropped, and how our awards-season outlook has evolved.
On this episode:
Paul Rai
Adam Patla
Danny Jarabek
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The Mommy Reckoning is here. Stepchildren, it's your time to shine. We're here to reckon with our childhood trauma and Instagram-induced body image issues.
In other news, our month-long double feature programming is continuing into week two with Other Mommy (not a sequel to Mommy) and The Social Reckoning (also supposedly not a sequel to The Social Network). 
In Other Mommy, Bela, an 8-year-old girl living in a home with marital problems, confronts a sinister entity which comes out of her closet. The presence, whom she calls "Other Mommy," becomes increasingly threatening to her and her family. Other Mommy is played by Jeremy Strong in the likeness of Mark Zuckerberg. Just kidding, or am I? 
The Social Reckoning follows Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, who enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features:
Rob Savage filmography
Artificial NYFF World Premiere 
The Exorcist: Martyrs trailer watchalong 
Our guest:
Derrick Murray
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Jacob Diedenhofer
Joshua Mbonu
Mariana Fabian
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