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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast voted to a classic film

and how it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson, here with Scott Tobias and Genevieve Koski. Our co-host Keith Phipps was in the studio like five minutes ago, but he ran out of the room following some frantic animated chipmunk, and we're not really sure what to do about that. So we're calling it Audible on this one, and we're bringing in Vulture and New York Magazine TV critic Jen Cheney in his place. Welcome back to the podcast, Jen. I'm very happy to be here. Thanks for having me. The last time you were here, I was not. So I feel like I missed an opportunity on that one to talk movies with you. And I'm looking forward to it this time. Yeah, me too. As we're recording this, the biggest movie news of 2023 so far is still unfolding.

Greta Gerwig's Barbie is dominating the box office and packing sold-out theaters.

To some degree, it got a boost from its release alongside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer,

because both films came out on the same day, and the impromptu double feature that fans have dubbed Barbenheimer became a full-on social phenomenon.

That said, though, Oppenheimer on its own, was a first weekend hit, crossing the $200 million

mark worldwide, but Barbie has made more than $380 million in the same time period.

Apparently, the studio comedy is not dead. Our usual

podcast format won't let us do two new releases at the same time, though, so instead of

hitting the Barbenheimer double, we're looking at a different double feature Barbie pairing this

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