Hey, Next Picture Show listeners, apologies for no new episode in your feed today. We had to take the week off for a variety of scheduling issues that I won't bore you with. But we'll be back next week to kick off our latest pairing, which, as some of you noticed and wrote to us about, we neglected to share at the end of last week's episode. That's because we didn't know what it would be yet due to aforementioned boring

scheduling issues. But we do now, so I'm here to tell you that on Tuesday, August 13th,

we will be kicking off a pairing inspired by... Pause for suspense. Trap! A film so

whatever it is that we needed an extra week to process it.

In M. Night Shyamalan's latest, Josh Hartnett plays a seemingly nice, ordinary Philadelphia dad

with a secret. He's actually an elusive serial killer known as the butcher in the midst

of a cat and mouse game with law enforcement. As the film opens, he seemingly walked into a trap in the form of a concert

that's both a sting operation in disguise and a stealth concert film for Shaman's daughter,

performing her own songs as the fictional pop megastar Lady Raven. From there, things get

twistier and otter in a movie that's too uniquely shamalon to draw many direct comparison points.

But that baseline premise about the frenzied pursuit of a dangerous predator, told in part

from the perspective of the killer, made us think of another one of cinema's great M's.

Fritz Lang's classic 1931 crime film M, starring Peter Lurie as a child murderer, doggedly evading

capture in Berlin. But there's

more connecting these two films than just a tortured M&M pun. So we hope you'll join us on what's

sure to be a chilling journey to the dark side of two metropolises separated by an ocean

and nine decades. Panoply.