Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair and

panoply.

I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.

And I'm here with our film critic Richard Lawson.

Hello.

And our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

Hi Katie.

We have lost my Kogan.

He either has the flu or has taken off for early Christmas.

He actually ran away to join the circus.

Zach everyone was here.

It was actually pretty exciting.

Or as Richard noted, may have run off to the circus with Hugh Jackman.

But we have a lot to talk about, is this is the last episode. We'll be recording in 2017.

We will have an episode next week. We've got some interviews that we've been conducting lately to share.

We've all gathered here to kind of catch up on the glut of films that are out in the world

right now starting with Star Wars Last Jedi, which is the biggest movie in all of the world.

And then we'll also be diving into the greatest showman and all the money in the world, these two kind of puzzling movies that Richard has reviewed, has glimpsed the future, which I think is circus musicals and hastily re-shot Ridley Scott dramas.

But it's a shame that Mike's not here

because after he saw the Last Jedi last week,

he messaged all of us with kind of the idea

that maybe the Last Jedi should be rushing

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