Featured Movies:

• Sinners [Wikipedia] [IMDb]
• Weapons [Wikipedia] [IMDb]
• War of the Worlds [Wikipedia] [IMDb]
• Shelby Oaks [Wikipedia] [IMDb]
• Heart Eyes [Wikipedia] [IMDb]
• A Minecraft Movie [Wikipedia] [IMDb]
• ...and several more!

PROMO: Cinema Recall (@cinema_recall)

SHOWNOTES: 2026 is here, and with it, many new films to look forward to! So, we wanted to take a moment to cover every newly released movie in 2025 that we didn't get a chance to make an At the Movies episode on. And boy, was last year stacked, especially in the horror department. Catch our discussion of a few select flicks, quick reviews of any others we watched, and the Collateral Cinema Best Picture awards from Ash and Beau! Also, stay tuned for more content this year, including our next At the Movies review on Return to Silent Hill, and our episode on the Lord of the Rings trilogy this month.

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Director: Hiroyuki Yamashita

Producers: Takayuki Hirobe, Koichi Machiyama, Shoji Matsui, Jamie Simone

Writers: Masashi Kishimoto (screenplay/story/original manga), Ukyō Kodachi (screenplay; cooperation)

Stars:

• Yūko Sanpei, Kokoro Kikuchi, Junko Takeuchi, Noriaki Sugiyama (Japanese)
• Amanda C. Miller, Cherami Leigh, Maile Flanagan, Yuri Lowenthal (English)

Release date: August 7, 2015

PROMO: Movie Wars (@MovieWarsPod)

SHOWNOTES: We've got even more anime movie content for you on Collateral Cinema! Following our previous episode on Vampire Hunter D, Ash and Beau are discussing Boruto: Naruto the Movie. Released in 2015, the following year of The Last: Naruto the Movie (which we covered last season), this film serves as an epilogue to the Naruto and Naruto Shippuden anime series, following Seventh Hokage Naruto Uzumaki's son Boruto in the Chunin Exams—a story that would later be readapted into the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga and anime. Is it as bad as reception to the anime series would suggest? Catch our opinions now, and stay tuned for our two-part episode on the Lord of the Rings trilogy in February!

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Featured Episode Reviews:

• Smiling Friends [Wikipedia] [IMDb]: "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back", "Pim Finally Turns Green", "The Glep Ep"
• YOLO (2020) [Wikipedia] [IMDb]: Crystal Fantasy: A Very Extremely Very Yolo Christmas: Reloaded"; Rainbow Trinity: "The Wollongong Santa Pub Crawl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAWR!!!"

PROMO: Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss

SHOWNOTES: Collateral Cinema: Director's Cut! is back with our Post-Holiday wrap-up, reviewing Adult Swim holiday specials as we do every year! This time, Beau and Ash cover every holiday episode of Smiling Friends and YOLO. From the minds of Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, these shows are known for their surreal humor and unconventional animation styles. So, chill with us, smoke some weed if you got it, and stay tuned for our next episode on Boruto: Naruto the Movie, concluding Anime Month!

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