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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 the week podcast about it to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias. Our regular co-host, Genevue Vucke, cannot join us because she's moved to Berlin, but says she'll be back soon. Also with us, our actors will be playing the parts of myself, Tasha, and Scott, but we're

going to keep them off stage for now. This week we're going to be discussing two films with

medicin seats, albeit quite different metacin seats used to different ends by two strikingly

different directors. One is the film about a play that becomes a hall of mirrors that threatens

to devour its creator. The other is a film about a TV special about a play, although a hall of mirrors that threatens to devour its creator. The other is a

film about a TV special about a play, although where one layers ends and the other begins is a bit

porous. Tasha, can you tell us about what we're going to be discussing? Well, Sanderson's new film

Asteroid City is about a group of young scientists, junior astronomers and space cadets, to be

specific, attending an annual

gathering in the remote desert town of Asteroid City, where they inadvertently have an encounter

with an extraterrestrial.

Sort of.

According to the movie, Asteroid City is also the name of a play by a famous mid-century

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