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The Big Picture

‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Is Here. Plus: Our Fall Film Festival Preview.

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.35.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Amanda react to a long list of fall film festival lineup announcements; highlight their main takeaways from Venice, Toronto, and Telluride; and create their way-too-early top 25 Best Picture contenders list (2:16). Then, they unpack the newest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps,’ starring Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby, which they found incredibly disappointing (23:23). They dive deep into spoilers, explain why they found a majority of the stars to be deeply miscast, and talk through what they think the MCU will look like going forward (40:23). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Producer: Jack Sanders THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY THE STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY. ORDER NOW | STARBUCKS.COM/MENU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of The Big Picture is presented by Starbucks.

0:03.4

The unofficial drink of summer is here, and it's just as good as I remembered.

0:07.1

Starbucks summer berry refresher is everything you'd want from a summer beverage.

0:11.1

A blend of berry notes shaken with ice and poured over a layer of new raspberry-flavored pearls.

0:16.8

And personally, my favorite refresher is the summer berry lemonade.

0:20.5

It just tastes like summer in a cup and adds a whole other level of fresh flavors.

0:24.9

We are on the brink of a major heat wave here in Los Angeles,

0:27.9

and nothing would be more refreshing than a Starbucks summer berry lemonade refresher.

0:33.0

Available for a limited time only, your summer berry refresher is ready at Starbucks.

0:47.7

Music for a limited time only, your summer berry refresher is ready at Starbucks. I'm Sean Fennessey.

0:48.9

I'm Amanda Dobbins.

0:49.6

And this is the Big Picture, a Conversation Show about the Fantastic Four.

0:53.4

In this episode, we'll break down the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,

0:57.3

one of the biggest movies of the summer as a quick programming update.

1:01.4

We're doing a summer movie Mailbag soon.

1:04.6

Not tomorrow, not the next day, but sometime soon.

1:07.8

We need questions from you, the listeners and watchers of this show. Email us at big pick mailbag at gmail.com. What's that email? Big pick mailbag at gmail.mell. You have until July 30th to send us questions, I guess ideally about summer movies, though we'll take anything. Do they need to be summer movies from this year? Well, good question. Perhaps no.

1:28.4

Wow. Because some of these summer movies suck. We'll get to that later. Before we dig into this movie,

1:32.5

though, we need to talk about fall festivals. But before we talk about fall festivals,

1:37.2

just wanted to say, thank you to the fine people of the city of Chicago, the fine people of

1:43.3

the music box theater, the fine people of the

1:45.3

Steppenwolf Theater. We spent three days in Chicago this weekend and had a magical time. How are you

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