10 Movies We Can’t Wait to See This Fall
The Big Picture

10 Movies We Can’t Wait to See This Fall

B1IntermediateSeptember 1, 20261 hr 32 min
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Sean and Amanda open today’s show by breaking down the weekend box office and highlighting the solid performance of ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ the continued bulldozing by ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and ‘The Odyssey,’ and the big bomb by ‘The Dog Stars.’ Then, they kick off their fall movie preview by each highlighting five movies they can’t wait to see and three movies they’ve seen and would recommend. Finally, they create the "September Oscars” and select five “guaranteed” Oscar nominations from films that have already been released. (0:00) Intro (0:38) ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ (6:08) ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and ‘Th...

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I'm Sean Fennessee. I'm Amanda Dobbins. This is the Big Picture conversation show about the fall movie season. Today on the show we're delivering our official fall movie preview.

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We're just days away from visiting a pair of fall film festivals. So before we've seen it all, we're going to share with you the movies we can't wait to see the ones we have seen and highly recommend and a few wild predictions. Plus, we'll break down some movie news right after this.

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Okay, Dobbins. Hey, big dog. 6 p.m. flight. Let's go. So you're... we're eight hours away. Well, I'm eight hours from an 18-hour travel day, but yes.

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