Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast that reminds you incessantly that award season is a year-round affair

and not just something that happens from September to February, although it's almost

September and so it really is starting to heat up.

I'm Mike Hogan, digital director of Vanity Fair.

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

Hello.

And a special host today, Hollywood editor Hillary Buses.

Hi, thank you for making me feel special.

Yes.

You are very special.

We feel special that you're here.

We have a really exciting show lined up for you today. We're going to talk about a movie that Richard actually liked.

I know. It's a rare feat.

And months maybe since that happened.

We're going to talk about another movie that Richard liked.

Yeah. Did you like it? So the first one is Pete's Dragon. Yeah. The second one is

L. Paul Verhoeven film. Kind of a strange double feature.

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don't try this very much not for kids.

And then we're going to go dig into the New York Film Festival lineup

and other fall release stuff that is really starting to wet our appetites for a

real award season. Hollywood is going to start actually releasing good movies.

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