Hey everybody and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast that strives to make you believe that Award season really is a year-round affair.

I'm vanity fair digital director Mike Hogan.

I'm here with our film critic Richard Lawson.

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And senior writer Joanna Robinson.

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Patching in from the Bay Area.

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Hi, guys.

We have a very exciting show today.

I feel very privileged to be sitting at a table with one of the most hated men in

superhero fandom, Richard Lawson, whose Suicide Squad Review has touched off quite a

Storm of controversy.

Yeah, my Twitter mentions are sort of a horror show.

I mean, actually it dissipated a little bit, but last night it was like,

yuh. Yeah, yeah. so we're going to talk about

what the Allen's new movie cafe society and what to do when someone you have a

lot of problems with personally keeps making Oscarie movies and how everybody deals with that.

But first we are going to kick off with some Oscar news items that Richard is going to share with us and I'm excited

because they're apparently about Brad Pitt. Yeah so you know when we

we talked about the Toronto lineup you know we were saying that that really helps give

shape to the Oscar season but

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