Venice Awards, TIFF Premieres & 1st Screenings for One Battle After Another - ORC 9/10/25

One Battle After Another 1st reactions are in. Then we dive deep into the Venice Awards Winners & tally the ovations. Plus, we discuss the Toronto Film Festival Premieres including Knives Out 3, Brendan Fraser in Rental Family, Channing Tatum’s Roofman, and Sydney Sweeney’s Christy. One Battle After Another 1st Reactions - 1:34 VENICE AWARDS + More Venice 1st Reactions: Golden Lion to Father Mother Sister Brother - 6:37 Silver Lion to Benny Safdie, The Smashing Machine - 10:21 Volpi Cup Best Actress to Xin Zhilei, The Sun Rises On Us All - 12:03 Volpi Cup Best Actor to Paul Servillo, La Grazia - 14:02 Grand Jury Prize to The Voice of Hind Rajab + An Ovation Record? - 17:18 Special Jury Prize to Below The Clouds - 21:53 Best Screenplay to At Work - 22:46 Silent Friend wins 2 Awards - 23: 50 Kathyrn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, it’s Trailer & why M1 needs AMC A-List - 26:23 Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire - 32:19 Julian Schnabel’s In The Hand of Dante - 34:47 Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet - 37:19 Venice Standing Ovations Tally - 38:23 TIFF PREMIERES: Reviewing The Reviewers Brendan Fraser in Hikari’s Rental Family - 39:19 Channing Tatum & Kiersten Dunst in Roofman from Derek Cianfrance - 40:41 Fraser & Tatum’s Oscar Chances - 41:36 Sydney Sweeney in David Michod’s Christy + Oscar Chances - 43:55 Wake Up, Dead Man, it’s new trailer + the 25 Film Best Picture Category Field - 46:15 John Candy: I Like Me Documentary + 1st Trailer - 51:13 Matthew McConnaughey & America Ferreira in The Lost Bus - 53:22 Russell Crowe gaining buzz from Nuremberg - 56:19 Hedda, starring Tessa Thompson - 58:08 OUTRO: More on fighting gophers (which are actually marmot groundhogs. Check our twitter for videos or google dancing marmot groundhogs). When you’re done with that, please support our show with a positive rating, review, like, & subscribe. Please spread the good word about MMO to your family and friends, and hopefully you continue to look forward to the huge slate of upcoming Oscar contenders this fall. Plus, we should all continue to enjoy Paul Thomas Anderson and these fall film festivals. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar