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Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins review the movies you need to see. Plus: Top 5s, Movie Drafts, Oscars analysis, and more.
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- Yesterdayconversational3h 4m10-min read
The Gene Hackman Hall of Fame
Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and returning guest Tracy Letts build the long-awaited Hall of Fame for Gene Hackman, one of the most requested episodes in the show's history. After watching nearly all of Hackman's roughly 75 prominent features, they debate his persona, his career arc from 1960s bit parts through his 2004 retirement, and ultimately select ten films that define him.
- 5 days agoconversational2h 39m7-min read
‘Wildwood,’ ‘Wicker,’ and 10 Movies We Missed! Plus: Travis Knight!
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins welcome back Joanna Robinson for a packed October movie roundup — covering Wicker, Wildwood, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Love of Your Life, Sacrifice, Finding Emily, Matchbox, and a mountain-movie trilogy — before Sean sits down with Laika CEO and Wildwood director Travis Knight for a deep dive on stop-motion craft and the threat of AI.
- 1 weeks agoconversational2h 1m6-min read
The Halloween Movie Draft
In a live Halloween-themed episode of The Big Picture Conversation Show from San Francisco, hosts Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Chris Ryan, joined by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, engage in a spirited horror movie draft with categories ranging from Halloween franchises to holiday horror. Amanda, once a horror novice, now confidently drafts Scream and Marriage Story, while Sean embraces his self-proclaimed megalomania with picks like Hubie Halloween and The Shining. The conversation blends film critique, personal anecdotes, and absurd humor, culminating in Amanda’s surprise victory in a live audience vote — a triumph of emotional resonance over genre purism.
- 1 weeks agoconversational2h 38m8-min read
The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2026 and ‘Clayface.’ Plus, ‘Street Fighter’ With Shea Serrano!
Sean Fennessey and Chris Ryan kick off their annual horror tradition with a spirited discussion of the year's best horror films, while also diving into the DC horror-comic crossover Clayface, the video game adaptation Street Fighter, and Shea Serrano’s list of the greatest movie fight scenes of all time.
- 2 weeks agoconversational2h 34m7-min read
‘You Can See Everything’ Mania and Best Picture Power Rankings. Plus: ‘Whalefall,’ ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ and Kyle MacLachlan!
The Big Picture hosts Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins unpack a wild weekend at the movies, spotlighting the surprise success of the documentary You Can See Everything, the divisive reception of Whalefall, and the underwhelming response to the new Sense and Sensibility. They also analyze Netflix’s recent executive shake-up and preview Fennessey’s in-depth conversation with Kyle MacLachlan about his early career and Blue Velvet.
- 2 weeks agoconversational2h 46m6-min read
You Must See ‘You Can See Everything.’ Plus: Judd Apatow!
You Can See Everything, a new documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is a genre-defying exploration of Elizabeth Holmes, documentary ethics, truth, and celebrity. The film begins as an intimate portrait of Holmes in the 34 days before her prison sentence but evolves into a mind-bending meditation on perception, manipulation, and the nature of reality, culminating in a layered, self-reflexive narrative that blurs the line between documentary and performance.
- 3 weeks agoconversational2h 9m6-min read
The Ben Affleck Hall of Fame and ‘Animals.’ Plus: ‘Other Mommy’ Is Jump-Scary and Silly
Ben Affleck gets a long-overdue Hall of Fame treatment on The Big Picture, while the hosts debate the merits of Other Mommy—a horror film that won the box office but bored one co-host—and Animals, Affleck’s latest Netflix thriller that’s messy but oddly watchable. The conversation veers into Aaron Sorkin’s box office struggles, the cultural ripple of Digger, and the audacity of four Beatles movies in four weeks.
- 3 weeks agoconversational1h 54m6-min read
‘The Social Reckoning’ Is No ‘The Social Network,’ and the Top Five Most Unnecessary Legasequels. Plus: The Best Movies at NYFF!
Amanda Dobbins and Sean Fennessey deliver a sharp, critical takedown of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, a belated sequel to The Social Network, which they argue fails both as cinema and as social commentary. The film, directed and written by Sorkin without David Fincher, is dismissed as a self-indulgent, tonally unbalanced procedural that lacks the depth, character study, and cinematic rigor of its predecessor.
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