Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Thursday October 21st

2021 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the latest film

and TV news. My name is Ben Pearson I'm a senior writer at slash film.com and I'm

joined on today's episode by slash film senior writer and chief film critic Chris Mandalista.

Hello.

All right guys so four news items that we wanted to discuss today.

First up, this is really brief. I wanted to mention this because I think

Brad and I maybe. I don't remember who I was speaking with now, but we talked about

this on a recent episode of the podcast, how we were hoping that big theater chains might actually institute screenings where there are

captions or essentially closed captioning on the screen and AMC actually made that announcement I think very recently

and maybe even this morning that I think 240 of its locations in more than a 100 markets in the United States are adding open captioning to certain

showings. So you can read more about that at slashhome.com. I just thought it was a cool little

follow-up to something, a brief conversation that we had on the

podcast before. This is really awesome, obviously for those who are deaf and hard of hearing.

And yeah, like I think we've talked about on the podcast as well that like I tend to watch almost everything with subtitles these days. It's just a habit that I've fallen into that I really appreciate and and yeah having this as an option in major like multiplex is a really cool thing.

So I just wanted to point that out.

Um, all right.

Chris, any thoughts on that at all?

Uh, yeah, I'm all for it. I mean, I don't watch things with sometimes all the time, but there are definitely times where I appreciate them. Like when I a dune at the Toronto Film Festival I really wish I had

had captions because for one thing everything in dune is very dense and they use all

those weird terms.

And for another thing, the sound mix, at least when I saw it,

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