Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ and the Best Frankenstein Movies. Plus: Jennifer Lawrence Is Ablaze in ‘Die My Love.’

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Sean and Amanda are joined by Rob Mahoney to cover a pair of new releases, but before diving in, they react to two new movie trailers for ‘Michael’ and ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ and the news that a ‘Miss Piggy’ movie from Cole Escola, Jennifer Lawrence, and Emma Stone is in development (0:53). Then, they unpack Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein,’ starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. They talk through the divisive reception to the film thus far, explain why the second half of the film is much stronger than the first, and hypothesize what its awards chances are (9:26). Finally, they cover Lynne Ramsay’s new psychological thriller, ‘Die My Love,’ starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, which they all thoroughly enjoyed and view as Lawrence’s best performance of her career (57:53). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Rob Mahoney Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:10.7	I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:11.6	And this is the big picture of conversation show about fatherhood and motherhood.
0:14.9	We're here with our large adult son, Rob Mahoney.
0:18.0	On today's episode, we're going to talk about Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of
0:21.4	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is now streaming on Netflix. This is a massive spectacle
0:26.2	of a movie and obviously tremendously personal to Del Toro. So we will dig deep into his vision,
0:33.1	I suppose. Sure. Later in this episode, we'll also discuss another vision, Lynn Ramsey's Die My Love,
0:38.1	which is a searing new drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson and is about
0:42.7	how being a mom is extremely cool.
0:45.6	You guys excited?
0:46.9	Oh, thrilled.
0:47.3	Yes.
0:48.2	All right, let's talk about some news before we talk about those two big feasts of a movie.
0:52.7	The first thing that happened this morning is that there is a new trailer for Antoine
0:56.6	Fuqua's Michael, which is a musical biopic about the life of Michael Jackson, who is a
1:02.7	normal person for whom there is no controversy.
1:06.5	And we don't have to explore any of those ideas.
1:08.5	No legal disputes.
1:09.6	Nope, we need to see a great artist to perform his music as we must in all musical biopics. Amanda, what did you think of the Michael trailer? Well, I watched it under duress. You know, we watched it here together. And it was a little bit because I had seen a still photograph of Miles Teller's wig from this trailer on the internet.
1:28.0	And I said, and I said, that's enough for me.
1:32.2	Well, it's very flat.
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