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We say goodbye to Smalltember with a true bad movie jewel (thanks to Alonso Duralde for recommending it) -- the kid/tween/teen musical comedy STANDING OVATION, one of the few movies about a singing competition that also makes room for a mob subplot and a child who threatens people with deadly animals. What a magical picture.
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Wikipedia page for Standing Ovation.
Recommended in this episode:
Dan: Redux Redux (2025)
Stu: Leviticus (2026)
Elliott: Smile (1975)

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Astronaut movies. What are they? Is "astronaut movie" even a genre? Elliott poses the question, and it leads to a mini that... OUT OF THIS WOOOOORLD.
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Smalltember winds are blowing in, and this year the currents brought us a doozy. SURFER: TEEN CONFRONTS FEARhas already become a new bad movie classic, and we had a lot of fun(?) confronting this strange object that arrived at Flop House central like a beached whale. It's a metaphysical monologue! It's a stealth religious film! It's a military thriller! It's a surfing movie! It's a dad wasting his kid's time! It's a way to use up old home movies by sneaking them into your narrative film! It's all this and much more!
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No Wikipedia page for Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear, but here's a Screen Slate article!
Recommended in this episode:
Dan: Manhunter: The Final Cut (1986, 2026)
Stu: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
Elliott: My Dinner with Andre (1981)

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We welcome Ian Grant, who -- in addition to having two Jurassic Park scientist names -- is the owner and proprietor of The Gremlins Museum! We discuss the 3-hour(ish) rough cut he unearthed and cleaned up, gremlin preservation, and all things Gremlins in general.

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Charli XCX is a huge pop star, seems cool, and is a genuine film lover -- but when she decided to make her own movie, were the results any good? That's what we were wondering about THE MOMENT, and we invited star of the show (and bigger Charli XCX-pert than any of us) Hallie Haglund back to the show to help us decide.

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Wikipedia page for The Moment

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

Stu: The Furious (2025)

Elliott: Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Hallie: The Proposal (2009)

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