The Brutalist, Babygirl, A Real Pain +20 New Films Reviewed on Oscar Race Checkpoint 1/4/2025

The Holidays are a time for watching movies, and we need an entire episode to catch you all up on what we’ve caught up on… including The Brutalist, Babygirl, A Real Pain & over 40 movies. These reviews are mostly Spoiler Free. HOWEVER, we do discuss some mid-Act II events for a few movies like The Brutalist, Y2K and Juror No. 2. NEW FILMS REVIEWED: The Brutalist - 1:26 Oscars & Globes Betting Odds Updated For The Brutalist, etc - 14:36 All We Imagine As Light then reviewing (September 5) Nowon East Village - 24:05 Babygirl - 28:47 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, La Cocina & Y2K - 34:40 The People’s Joker - 39:15 A Real Pain - 41:32 Bird - 45:18 The Six Triple Eight - 47:14 Small Things Like These - 49:21 Out Of My Mind- 51:13 Juror No. 2 - 54:17 Red One, Sweethearts, Late Bloomers, Coup!, Lonely Planet - 59:03 Rewatches of Will & Harper, My Old Ass, Conclave, etc - 1:03:11 OLDER FILMS: Family Movie Nights: Hombre, The Shootist, The Crimson Pirate - 1:05:46 Christmas Movies: The Feast of the Seven Fishes, It’s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, The Holdovers - 1:07:12 Mike’s Tour of the film year of 1967 continues: In The Heat of the Night & Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner, The Graduate, In Cold Blood, Bonnie & Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, Wait Until Dark, The Producers, The Dirty Dozen, Point Blank - 1:08:08 OUTRO: Let us know your thoughts (especially with all the opinions we have to lay down in this episode). Plus, what's coming next might involve some radio time and words of wisdom.