Venice & Telluride First Reactions Kick Off Our Festival Coverage - ORC 8/31/24

Mike, Mike, and Oscar

INTRO of us excited about a lot of these festival reactions and eventual travel plans of our own. AWARDS NEWS: 2:35 - Nikki Glaser will host the 82nd Golden Globes 4:44 - The Apprentice finds a distributor and pre-election release date VENICE FIRST REACTIONS: 8:21 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and does 3 mins in Italy equal 5 mins in France? 11:42 - Maria and how Angelina’s Venice reception resembles a recent Oscar winner. 15:22 - September 5 and a potential new contender enters the Oscars landscape 17:23 - Babygirl is the steamy thriller that’s been scored very high on first blush. TELLURIDE FIRST REACTIONS: 19:00 - A Quick Lineup Summary to start. 20:04 - Piece By Piece enters the best animated feature race with mostly good reviews. 21:05 - Conclave is getting strong Oscar signals, but has a few red flags. 24:43 - Nickel Boys might be building a major campaign with these great first reactions 26:49 - The Piano Lesson’s strong debut & teasing Ryan McQuade’s reactions on the next ep TRAILER REVIEWS: 28:07 - Emilia Perez and does a lousy trailer song drown out all of the great sounding buzz? 33:25 - Six Triple Eight should be slotted into the Original Score teases a powerful story. 35:24 - Memoir of a Snail might win an Oscar, and AlsoMike is very angry after this trailer. 39:09 - Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story documentary might make us all too emotional 40:29 - Sonic The Hedgehog 3 could be saved by Jim Carry and SNL promotions. WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: 42:05 - Shoresy is the best sports show ever. We both love it so much. 45:15 - Slingshot gives M2 his psychological thriller fix. 46:35 - Stress Positions hits him as very funny 48:13 - The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat didn’t have enough food 49:24 - Find Me Falling actually showed a lot of food 50:48 - Marmalade had fun characters in a meh heist film + Docuseries Reviews for American Murder: Laci Peterson, Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose, & The Jinx Season 2. 54:32 - OUTRO: Where you can find us, M1’s spiel goes off the rails and then back on them again, + M2 talks about our film festival coverage / upcoming adventures.