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This past weekend, "Women Talking" won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.  The accolade is well deserved, as the movie is an incredibly powerful one.  Dealing with upsetting material, "Women Talking" is distrubing not just for the real events it is based on, but for the truths it shows us about our world.  Let's discuss.

Some actors find themselves, at some point in their career, having a moment.  Right now, Jonathan Majors is having a moment, one that we hope continues for decades to come; that the moment becomes a long and varied and fascinating career.  He not only has two movies in theaters as we release this episode, but one from last year has just arrived on Blu-ray, and that's the one we discuss today, "Devotion."

Currently out on Blu-ray is not one, but two different movies that hit theaters last year and deal with, in no small part, movies.  Yes, now available are Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans" and Sam Mendes' "Empire of Light."  While both movies are beautiful to look at, only one touches the soul.  Which goes right and which goes wrong?  Let's discuss.

Sometimes it is quite easy to pinpoint what is true and what is a lie.  Sometimes it is far more complicated.  And perhaps--just perhaps--sometimes it might not matter at all.  This week's episode looks at the new film, "Emily," which focuses on the life on Emily Brontë as it may have been but probably wasn't but could have been anyway.  Just where is the truth and does it matter if there's a lie?

How do we move from the past to the future?  How do we take what has come before, show it reverence (when appropriate), and still manage to create something new and wonderful?  This week we're discussing two new Blu-ray releases, "Black Panther:  Wakanda Forever" and "Mickey & Minnie 10 Classic Shorts - Volume 1," that, maybe, help guide us on that path. 

There are undoubtedly things about the animated film "Strange World" that are, well, strange.  However, you and I both know that there is a contigent of people out there who will watch the movie and get upset for bad reasons, that will view strangeness where there ought to be none.  How do we think about these things?  How do we judge?  How do we move forward?