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Today on Happy Sad Confused,

it's time to preview my favorite time of year for movies. The fall film season is upon us.

We're talking joker, wicked, gladiator, and the festivals. What can we expect that of Telluride in Toronto? What's the buzz?

What are our best guesses at what's going to make it through the

award season.

Well breaking it all down with me today is Matt Neglia.

He's the owner and editor-in-chief of Next Best Picture.

Matt sees it all.

He follows it all way more closely than pretty much anybody I know.

Matt, welcome back to the podcast.

This is becoming an annual tradition.

Welcome.

I could not be more excited to hear you say that you know how much I revere and just love your work Josh and so to be here again two years in a row is a thrill for me. I really really appreciate it.

Well like I said I meant what I said you you really know this stuff backwards and forward so I can't think of a better person to talk to about all of this.

First of all we've a lot to cover because this is a busy this is about to be a very busy time of year for folks like us.

And it's all good problems because this is the good stuff, is the great, the best films.

But first, before we get into the festivals, let's just take kind of like a temperature read

of like where we're at, because last year at this time,

we already had experienced Barbenheimer,

which ended up being two of the biggest players,

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