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SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs"We Grown Now" had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received strong reviews for its direction, performances, and story about two young friends who come of age in the Cabrini-Green housing complex during the early 1990s. Director, writer, and producer Minhal Baig and actors Lil Rel Howery & Jurnee Smollett were kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their experiences making the film. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in select theaters from Sony Pictures Classics. Thank you, and enjoy!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs"The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare" is a slick, suave, and effortlessly cool WWII action film directed by Guy Ritchie with a star-studded cast that includes Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Babs Olusanmokun, Henry Golding & Cary Elwes. Pulling from real-life history based on the Damien Lewis book "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops" co-writer Arash Amel set out to create "The Dirty Dozen meets Oceans Eleven, directed by Guy Ritchie." Amel was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his experience writing the film which is now playing in theaters from Lionsgate. Please be sure to check out the film and enjoy our conversation. Thank you!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzsScoot McNairy has been one of the world's best and most reliable character actors ever since his career took off in the early 2010s with films such as "Monsters," "Argo," "Killing Them Softly," "12 Years A Slave" and more. His latest role in "Blood For Dust," which had its world premiere at last year's Tribeca Festival, finds him playing an everyday salesman caught up in the dangerous world of crime in Montana during the 1990s, co-starring Kit Harington, Josh Lucas, Stephen Dorff. McNairy was generous enough to spend some time talking about his experience making the film, his career, and upcoming projects such as "Nightbitch," "Speak No Evil," and "A Complete Unknown." Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released by The Avenue in theaters and will be on digital on April 19th. Thank you, and enjoy!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs"The Greatest Hits" had its world premiere at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its supernatural love story built around music. Stars Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, and Director/Writer Ned Benson ("The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby") were kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about their experience making the film. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Hulu. Thank you, and enjoy!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs"Irena's Vow" had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Sophie Nélisse's performance as Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish nurse who helped to shelter and protect Jewish people during the Holocaust by hiding them in the cellar of the home where she was employed as a housekeeper by Nazi officer Eduard Rügemer. Nélisse was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about her experience making the film, how it compares to her time working on "The Book Thief," who she has coming up next in her career, and more. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in select theaters from Quiver Distribution in the U.S. Thank you, and enjoy!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzsFor Episode 388, I am joined by Josh Parham. In this week's episode, we react to the 2024 Cannes Film Festival lineup (which we'll attend in person next month). We also go over the polls, give our reactions to the trailers for "Joker: Folie à Deux," "MaXXXine," and "Speak No Evil," answer your fan-submitted questions and more! Daniel Howat and I will cover CinemaCon in a separate video for our YouTube channel. Thank you, as always, for listening. You're all the best, and we hope you enjoy this episode.Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzsFor this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham & Tom O'Brien. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from Alex Garland, "Civil War," starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offerman, Sonoya Mizuno & Jesse Plemons. The biggest A24 production to date and released during an election year, the provocative apolitical film has garnered quite a bit of buzz following its world premiere at SXSW. Now that the dust has settled, what did we think of it? Tune in as we discuss the story, its themes and characters, the performances, the sound work, cinematography, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs"Shōgun" has been one of the most buzzed-about shows of 2024 since it premiered on FX on February 27th. While the show is still going (the series finale is set to air on April 23rd), the quality of the show has already been solidified, with many calling it the most epic show since "Game Of Thrones." Costume Designer Carlos Rosario, known for working on horror films such as "Don't Breathe" and the upcoming "Alien: Romulus" had quite a challenge before him when taking on this mammoth project, and he was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his experience working on the show. Please be sure to check out the show, which is now available to stream on Hulu & Disney+ and is up for your consideration in all eligible Emmy categories. Thank you, and enjoy!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPictureSIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzsOur 2010 retrospective has officially begun! And what better way to kick things off than continuing the Academy Award-winning (God, it feels great to say that) Christopher Nolan appreciation with his 2010 Oscar-winning film "Inception" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger & Michael Caine. Joining me for this throwback podcast review are Lauren LaMagna, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Nadia Dalimonte & Danilo Castro. What do we think of the film all these years later? Tune in as we discuss the writing, direction, ideas and themes, the ensemble, action sequences, visual effects, and whether or not we believe that Totem toppled in the final shot, plus its awards season run and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for all your support, and enjoy!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs"The People's Joker" had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, but its screenings were canceled due to "rights issues" related to its D.C. characters. The parody film has generated a ton of buzz in cinephile circles and is finally getting released from Altered Innocence in select theaters. Director, writer, and star Vera Drew was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about her experience making the film, what she wanted to communicate with it, how she was inspired by 2019's "Joker," its trans themes, and more. Enjoy, and please be sure to check out the film if you can. Thank you!Check out more on NextBestPicture.comPlease subscribe on...SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcastApple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jTYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOwAnd be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices