Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Real Talk, a movie podcast.

We are your go-to source for ratings and recommendations of past and present films.

I am your host, West Jones, podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Hey, this is Tommy, podcasting straight from Nashville, Tennessee.

The movie buddy Conway podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Hey, real talk.

Welcome back in to our next exciting episode.

We really got a really fun one here.

I know we're already two months into 2023 so we're a little

behind on this but we're going to do our most anticipated films for this year so i guess

we're just going to have to mark off january february just pretend those didn't happen or didn't

exist plus beyond not a lot of the best movies usually come out in the first two months.

So I think we're okay.

And, you know, I also really wanted to take a look at just the industry in general.

Hollywood in general, kind of see where we're at with movies because it's been a really tough few years in the movie industry.

But I see some hope, some optimism out there.

People are going back to the movies.

People are excited about them.

I think we got a really fun slate of movies this year.

So I'm excited to talk about what that can entail, what that means for

the industry, and what that means for us here at Real Talk. So we have Wes Jones and Gabe Conway

here tonight also. So let's bring in our co-host. Wes, let's bring you in first, man. I know

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