Matt and Jeff look ahead to opening weekend (Street Fighter, Whalefall and Sense and Sensibility) and next week's Wildwood, and Matt finds the original Mission: Impossible doesn't hold up on a rewatch.

Then they review Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, and finish by ranking their Top 5 Christopher Nolan movies, where their top three line up exactly: Inception at #1, The Prestige at #2 and Batman Begins at #3.

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00:00 Introduction and episode overview

01:15 Opening weekend: Street Fighter

03:50 Whalefall and Sense and Sensibility

06:15 Next week: Wildwood and the art of stop-motion

10:15 What we watched: Mission: Impossible (1996)

13:54 Sunset Boulevard

28:31 The Prestige

38:38 Christopher Nolan's storytelling, then and now

46:43 Top 5 Christopher Nolan Movies

50:02 #5: Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight

52:12 #4: Interstellar and Oppenheimer

57:35 #3: Batman Begins (both of us!)

52:12 #4: Interstellar and Oppenheimer

57:35 #3: Batman Begins (both of us!)

01:00:51 #2: The Prestige (both of us!)

01:02:02 #1: Inception (both of us!)

01:07:31 Conclusion

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Matt and Jeff catch up on Chernobyl, Disclosure Day, and The Breadwinner (and a wasted Zach Cherry), review Brad Pitt's Heart of the Beast, ask whether Rotten Tomatoes scores have gotten too generous, and look ahead to You Can See Everything, Mr. Irrelevant, and Vision Quest.

Then they dive into Apple TV's mountaineering documentary The Last First: Winter K2 and David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, and finish by ranking their Top 5 sports films of all time, with Moneyball landing at #4 for both of them (again) and Rudy making both lists.

00:00 Introduction and episode overview

02:03 What we watched: Chernobyl and Disclosure Day

06:50 The Breadwinner (and a wasted Zach Cherry)

11:31 Heart of the Beast

16:48 Are Rotten Tomatoes scores too generous?

18:22 Coming soon: You Can See Everything, Mr. Irrelevant, Vision Quest

22:01 The Last First: Winter K2

38:11 Lawrence of Arabia

51:10 Top 5 Sports Films of All Time

53:31 #5: Rocky IV and Rudy

56:47 #4: Moneyball (both of us!)

01:00:07 #3: Warrior and Rocky

01:03:42 #2: Cinderella Man and Free Solo

01:07:24 #1: Rudy and The Sandlot

01:11:13 Conclusion

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Matt and Jeff revisit Forrest Gump, catch up on Breadwinner, Backrooms, and Eternity, and talk movie news including Star Wars X and Wildwood.

Then they dive into Forgotten Island, revisit the emotional weight of Hamnet, and finish by ranking their Top 5 Tom Cruise movies — with plenty of disagreement over Mission: Impossible, Top Gun, Far and Away, and A Few Good Men.

00:00 Introduction and episode overview
01:31 Jeff and Matt discuss recent movie watches
04:08 Jeff's Forrest Gump revisit
05:51 Recent films: Breadwinner, Backrooms, Eternity
11:06 Industry news: Star Wars X, Wildwood, Saved by the Bell
21:58 Forgotten Island
38:30 Hamnet
55:54 Top 5 Tom Cruise Movies
01:13:10 Conclusion

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