In today's episode Movies Met Movies discuss Shame dir. Steve McQueen and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. David Fincher. After a brief recap, we start off with some current news with new information on Oceans 14 (7:38) as well as reacting to the trailer for They Will Kill You (11:01) We end off the news with a discussion on the details of J.J. Abrams' new movie (14:25) and the return of Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood to the LotR franchise (20:57). After discussing the news of around the release of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2011 (23:04) we get into the core of the episode with a discussion of Shame (31:30) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (52:11).

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Welcome to the first episode of When Movies Met Movies, where we discuss the upcoming films of 2026 as well as Tintin and War Horse to ease us into the format. We start off the episode with a moment of remembrance to the late and great Rob Reiner (2:00). Regarding current news, we discuss two recently released trailers, Disclosure Day (4:30) and Madden (10:55) as well as the movies we are looking forward to in 2026 (17:15). Then, we proceed to discuss Paramount's false commitment to theatrical releases in 2026 (40:15) and the future of the MCU with speculation on Monkey Paw's potential project (44:04) and the trailers for Avengers: Doomsday (47:55). After briefly discussing the news of Christmas 2011 (51:45) we get into the main meat of the episode with a discussion of The Adventures of Tintin (54:28) and War Horse (1:16:18).

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