Episode description

We're back!! Who knows how long it will be before the next episode but we're here now, and that's what matters. This week we catch up with the movies we've watched lately, including Nope, Three Thousand Years of Longing, and Bodies Bodies Bodies. We also discuss the problems facing HBO Max and other streaming services, theatrical releases, festival movies we're looking forward to, Gen Z, and... the astrology of film?? Also some TV?? You'll have to check it out!

• Nope, Blonde, BROS, Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul
• We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, X, Belle (2022), Bodies Bodies Bodies, Irma Vep (2022)
• Uncharted, Marry Me, Platoon, Three Thousand Years of Longing*
• Synecdoche, New York, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
• Mad Max: Fury Road, Happy Feet, Babe: Pig in the City, The Witches of Eastwick, Practical Magic
• Cha Cha Real Smooth, Moonlight
• TÁR, White Noise, Elvis (2022), Women Talking, BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, The Fabelmans, Babylon (2022), Armageddon Time, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021), Ahed’s Knee, RRR, Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water

The Smartest People in the Room is hosted by Rachel Casey and Maddie Weiner. It is edited by Maddie Weiner. Original theme and interstitial music is by Scott Boice - follow him on Instagram @sc00gle and find more of his work on Bandcamp.