It’s been a quiet few weeks on the movie front but the year Zendaya and RPatz takeover of 2026 is starting off strong with The Drama. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) dig into Kristoffer Borgli’s latest.

• The Drama
• A Magnificent Life
• Exit 8
• Pretty Lethal
• Alpha
• Fantasy Life
• For Worse
• They Will Kill You
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
• Caught by the Tides
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
• Cold Storage
• Redux Redux
• Caterpillar
• Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
• Dead of Winter
• It Ends

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:23 – Oscars discussion
00:35:22 – Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
00:40:50 – Project Hail Mary
00:51:29 – What we’ve been watching
01:30:22 – Coming soon
01:36:56 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week, we’re all about saving the world. Be it a Ryan Gosling saving the planet from out self-made doom or Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton saving humanity from Satan, the message is (essentially) the same: we’re fucked. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) try not to freak out about our impending end.

• Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
• Project Hail Mary
• The President’s Cake
• Sweetness
• Good Boy
• undertone
• Islands
• Reminders of Him
• Hoppers
• The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother Hillel
• Shell
• The Pink Pill: Sex Drugs & Who Has Control
• American Sweatshop
• Eternity
• Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
• Backspot
• Crime 101
• Soft & Quiet
• The Alabama Solution
• Relay
• Code 3
• “The Expanse“
• “Daredevil” S2

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:23 – Oscars discussion
00:35:22 – Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
00:40:50 – Project Hail Mary
00:51:29 – What we’ve been watching
01:30:22 – Coming soon
01:36:56 – Closing thoughts & credits

It’s been a disappoining two weeks of movie watching. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) warn you about a bunch of, generally, terrible movies you might want to skip.

• The Bride!
• Magic Farm
• Man on the Run
• Scream 7
• Videoheaven
• War Machine
• I Swear
• The Ugly Stepsister
• The Moment
• The Bluff
• Swallowed
• Stone Cold Fox
• Lurker
• Dreams
• Dongji Rescue
• Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
• Protector
• Hoppers
• “Paradise“
• “The Pitt“

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:16 – The Bride!
00:10:42 – What we’ve been watching
00:51:48 – Coming soon
01:03:50 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week’s episode was slightly delayed due to a concert (blame Marina) but this just means that we have a lot more movies to talk about!

Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) touch base on an overall great few weeks of movies.

• Wuthering Heights
• Queen of Chess
• Dracula
• The Housemaid
• Pillion
• The Wrecking Crew
• Shell
• The Moment
• The Darkest Web
• Tornado
• The Strangers: Chapter 2
• The Strangers: Chapter 3
• Cold Storage
• Ick
• Dead Mail
• Crime 101
• Elio
• Hamilton
• Iron Lung
• Greenland 2: Migration
• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Virdiana
• After hours
• How to Make a Killing
• The Book of Clarence
• Sirat
• “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model”

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:16 – Wuthering Heights
00:22:57 – What we’ve been watching
01:34:22 – Coming soon
01:56:50 – Closing thoughts & credits

Hard to believe that January has come and gone but then again, looking at this month’s releases, there is little to get excited about.

And then in waltzes Sam Raimi with his perennial mix of laughs and _________ – in the case of Send Help, comedy and survival thriller. Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) dig into this and a number of other films we’ve been seeing of late.

• Send Help
• Man Finds Tape
• Pretty Thing
• Regretting You
• People We Meet on Vacation
• Primate
• Father Mother Sister Brother
• Tropic Thunder
• Is This Thing On?
• A House of Dynamite
• Night Patrol
• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• The Rip
• The Voice of Hind Rajab
• Mercy
• Return to Silent Hill
• H is for Hawke
• Whistle
• The Surrender
• Iron Lung
• Shelter
• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
• Mother of Flies
• The Mother and the Bear
• Dust Bunny
• Together
• Relay
• Secret Mall Aprartment
• Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
• “Drops of God“
• “WWE Unreal“
• “Wonder Man“
• “The Beauty“
• “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms“

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:01:37 – Send Help
00:19:01 – What we’ve been watching
01:12:36 – Coming soon
01:22:31 – Closing thoughts & credits

The time is here! Ready or not, the ATC crew is counting down our favourite films of 2025!

Listen in as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) unveil their lists, some honorable mentions, and perhaps some of the worst movies we saw this year.

Steve’s Top 5

5. Sorry, Baby
4. One Battle After Another
3. Bugonia
2. Train Dreams
1. **Listen to find out**

Melissa’s Top 5

5. Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
4. Hamnet
3. Sentimental Value
2. It Was Just an Accident
1. **Listen to find out**

Bill’s Top 5

5. Weapons
4. Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
3. Sentimental Value
2. Hamnet
1. **Listen to find out**

Marina’s Top 5

5. Sinners
4. Die My Love
3. Warfare
2. Train Dreams
1. **Listen to find out**

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:08:10 – Top 10 Lists
01:33:23 – Coming soon
01:42:47 – Closing thoughts & credits

Happy New Year!

In the first episode of the 2026 season, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) catch up on a the final batch of awards hopefuls, including the very buzzy Marty Supreme, as well as the cultural milestone that is the “Stranger Things” finale.

What we’ve been watching:

• Marty Supreme
• “Stranger Things 5: The Finale“
• Train Dreams
• The Testament of Ann Lee
• Rental Family
• It Was Just an Accident
• Cover-Up
• Is This Thing On?
• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
• Scarlet
• Dead Man’s Wire
• The Luckiest Man in America
• Anaconda
• The Rule of Jenny Pen
• We Bury the Dead
• Frewaka
• Die My Love
• Honey Don’t
• The Great Flood
• Mile End Kicks
• Zodiac Killer Project
• “Pluribus“
• “Severance“

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:04:09 – Marty Supreme
00:19:37 – “Stranger Things” Finale
00:29:04 – What we’ve been watching
01:14:40 – Coming soon
01:23:23 – Closing thoughts & credits

In this special holiday episode of the podcast, the last of 2025 no less, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) check in to talk about some of the final releases of the year, including a very special rant from our very own Bill.

What we’ve been watching:

• Dust Bunny
• Beast of War
• Oh. What. Fun.
• Silent Night, Deadly Night
• Song Sung Blue
• Avatar: Fire & Ash
• The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
• The Housemaid
• Predators
• Ella McKay
• Sisu: Road to Revenge
• The Secret Agent
• Wake Up Dead Man
• Nobu
• The Woman in Cabin 10
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Die My Love
• The Chronology of Water
• Rebuilding
• Lilly
• Ex-Husbands
• No Other Choice
• Keeper

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:06:10 – What we’ve been watching
01:18:08 – Coming soon
01:30:41 – Closing thoughts & credits

Awards season is now in full swing as is evident from this week’s laundry list of movies. Join us this week as Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) delve into some awards hopefuls including the movie of the week Hamnet.

What we’ve been watching:

• Sisu: Road to Revenge
• Wicked: For Good
• Train Dreams
• Rental Family
• Meadowlarks
• Zootopia 2
• Wick is Pain
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Left-Handed Girl
• Five Night at Freddy’s 2
• Jay Kelly
• Alpha
• Come See Me in the Good Light
• Regretting You
• Man Finds Tape
• Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
• Keeper
• Urchin
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• After the Hunt
• Inside
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• One Battle After Another
• The Trouble with Jessica
• Bugonia
• Monk in Pieces
• Sentimental Value
• Song Sung Blue

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:05:50 – Hamnet
00:17:35 – What we’ve been watching
01:41:15 – Coming soon
01:56:57 – Closing thoughts & credits

This week, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd), Bill Harris (Letterboxd) and Marina Antunes (Letterboxd) delve into two apocalyptic worlds: one which is completely new and interesting and another than was imagined by Stephen King decades ago and now feels dramatically close to reality. Listen in as we dig into Predator: Badlands and The Running Man.

What we’ve been watching:

• Predator: Badlands
• The Running Man
• The Home
• Bugonia
• Thursday Murder Club
• Eternity
• Keeper
• Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
• Who Killed the Montreal Expos?
• Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Frankenstein
• Die My Love
• You Were Never Really Here
• There’s Someone Inside Your House
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Ballad of a Small Player
• Good Fortune
• The Smashing Machine
• Riefenstahl
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
• Roofman
• Eden
• Being Eddie
• In Your Dreams

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00:00:00 – Opening credits & introduction
00:04:10 – Predator: Badlands
00:20:20 – The Running Man
00:29:31 – What we’ve been watching
01:28:33 – Coming soon
01:38:42 – Closing thoughts & credits