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Joe and Erik reflect on the Summer movie season so far, catching up on some of the big and small films—Baby Driver & Okja most prominently—we've seen. Our main review comes in the second half of the show where we discuss director David Lowery's A Ghost Story.

Ryan Oliver and Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez discuss David Lynch and Mark Frost's 'Twin Peaks: The Return' from Part 3 to Part 8.

Ryan Oliver and Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez discuss the poor domestic box office opening of 'Transformers: The Last Knight' as well as the behind-the-scenes turmoil regarding the 'Han Solo' spinoff movie.

Oktay and Ryan are joined by fellow Playlister Kenji Fujishima to discuss two films about American capitalism: Paul Thomas Anderson's 'There Will Be Blood' and Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic 'The Aviator.'

Joe and Erik discuss two new films from exciting auteurs and find plenty of overlapping elements between them, beyond the fact that, yes, Sofia Coppola and Ana Lily Amirpour are women working behind the camera. The latter's sophomore feature, The Bad Batch, is a film that's gotten mixed responses since premiering at Venice last year, but we find much to love about it. Before we get to that, though, we discuss and disagree on The Beguiled.

Ryan Oliver and Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez discuss 'The Mummy' and the arrogance of the pre-determined cinematic universe model.

Oktay and Ryan dive into a Gore Verbinski double-feature as Ryan picks the first - and most beloved - "Pirates of the Caribbean" film as the overrated and the oddball, existential dark comedy "The Weather Man" as the underrated.

Joe and Erik open the show with Wonder Woman and the film's enormous success over the weekend. From there, it's onto our larger topic, writer/director Trey Edward Shults' sophomore film It Comes At Night, which despite its misleading marketing (it's not a monster movie, more a European-flavored horror/survivalist art picture) is a strong effort nonetheless. We also find time at the end of the show to discuss War Machine and some other deflating original releases from Netflix so far this year.