The Saturday Matinée • Movies, News, Games, and Lists!

Pete, Ocean, and Tommy take to the news with talk about retread, Succession, HBOMax, and Mike Flanagan. Plus trailers and Die Hard Speed Round Trivia with a list of movies around the Saddest Christmas.

Show Notes

Pete Wright, Ocean Murff, and Tommy Metz head up the Saturday Matinée for our penultimate episode of 2021. What’s on deck? Ocean and Tommy make an able plea that we all watch Succession and now’s just the right time during a season break. Along the way, we talk about the latest Vulture piece suggesting that HBOMax won the year with their day-date Warner Bros strategy, directors be damned.

The latest Potterverse entry trailer — Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledorehas dropped fresh with recasting and a distinctly Azkaban feel. Will it live up to the original series third ep?

Pete’s mad about retreads. Do we really need to know how you met your father?

We try to talk about Mike Flanagan, because Tom loves him. But it’s a pretty anemic effort. We get there… eventually.

Here’s Keanu Reaves and Carrie-Anne Moss talking about making The Matrix Awakens feature for Epic Games, and crapping on NFTs.

Trailers

THE LIST!

It turns out, most Christmas movies are happy. This is our discovery upon inheriting the list topic The Saddest Christmas from last week’s hosts.

Pete’s List

  1. Jack Frost
  2. Fatman
  3. Last Christmas

Tommy’s List

  1. Edward Scissorhands
  2. The Ice Storm
  3. Jacob’s Ladder

Ocean’s List

  1. Rocky IV • Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago: The Ultimate Director’s Cut
  2. Batman Returns
  3. Trading Places
  • (00:00) - Saturday Matinée • 2021-12-18
  • (04:34) - The Watchlist
  • (06:24) - The Good Fight, Succession, and Tommy Cries over Kendall
  • (11:11) - Tom wants to talk about Mike Flanagan
  • (15:39) - #%&@ Retreads
  • (16:40) - Tom's best friend Dan Fogler has a new trailer
  • (18:49) - "Did HBOMax win the year?"
  • (23:25) - Keanu is Charismatic
  • (24:09) - Ocean is a Miranda
  • (25:29) - Trailers
  • (45:22) - Games!
  • (56:14) - Housekeeping
  • (58:21) - The List! The Saddest Christmas
  • (01:17:27) - Coming Attractions

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Welcome to the Saturday Matinée from TruStory FM, our weekly show where we gather to talk about news, reviews, new trailers, and the hotly debated weekly list challenge!