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Checking in on Twisters, Trap, and Rebel Ridge, plus on the ground reactions from Venice

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Adam McGee describes watching Cloud at Venice after a football trip and paying 20 euro for a midnight screening.

1. Make Time for This: GSPN's Podcast for Pop Culture and Other Things centers this episode on recent movies, Venice, and the 2024 awards-field buzz. 2. Adam McGee and Andrew Snyder host the show, and Adam brings a Venice Film Festival attendance story while Andrew drives the festival roundup and film reactions. 3. The episode asks which films already feel like the ones people will talk about for the rest of 2024 and early 2025. 4. Andrew names Queer, Friendship, and We Live in Time as festival titles getting chatter from critics and social media. 5. Adam identifies Robbie Williams' Better Man as the project he keeps hearing about, including the detail that Robbie is portrayed as a CGI chimp. 6. Andrew points to Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist as his most anticipated film, citing its three-and-a-half-hour runtime and Adrian Brody lead. 7. He says early reactions compare The Brutalist to There Will Be Blood and describe it as a big historical epic. 8. Adam and Andrew also flag Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door as major Venice and TIFF titles. 9. Adam’s Venice story moves from a football trip to Venezia at Pierluigi Penzo Stadium to a midnight Cloud screening at the Sala Grande. 10. He describes Kiyoshi Kurosawa in the room, the 2:30 a.m. hour, and the fear of getting stranded on another island in Venice. 11. Adam says the Venice sound was unlike any theater he has experienced and calls the event a special moviegoing memory. 12. He notes that the festival is not only for red-carpet guests, but also for normal people sitting in the same auditorium. 13. Andrew says the Venice and TIFF landscape matters because those festivals help shape the awards race and the films that define the year. 14. The conversation then turns to Twisters, which they had promised to cover next and which Andrew saw twice. 15. Adam argues that Lee Isaac Chung’s film is a very strong version of a summer blockbuster and better than the original Twister. 16. They say Chung’s range is surprising, moving from Minari and earlier independent work into large-scale natural-disaster filmmaking. 17. The tone stays conversational and reflective, with long digressions, named-checking of films, and detailed personal reactions. 18. The format alternates between festival news, personal travel anecdotes, and structured movie commentary rather than formal review segments. 19. Listeners who follow festivals, awards chatter, or big studio movies will get the most from this episode. 20. Viewers looking for a tightly edited spoiler-free review may prefer a shorter recap.

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A loose catch-up that turns movie chatter, casting talk, and festival-season buzz into lively film talk.

Adam McGee and Andrew Snyder use this episode to catch up on a stack of movies, reset the show, and point toward festival season and the Oscars. The best part is the easy back-and-forth, where they test what each film is doing and why certain performances connect.

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For when you want a brisk catch-up on the movies pile without the jargon.

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