I'm Sean Fennacy.

And this is the big picture of conversation show about the summer.

We have a summer movie mailbag to jump into.

This is going to be the last full episode.

That's just me and you of this summer.

Before that, because you're leaving soon, you will not be joining me at a programming

reminder, special screening of one of our 25 for 25 films here in Los Angeles.

I'm really, I'm pained that I don't get to go see Michael Clayton at the Aero Theater on Monday, August 25th.

Yes, at 7 p.m. I'm very excited. I'll be presenting an introduction. You won't be there. I will be representing your spirit. It's true. I might send an email. I'm going to, I'm going to be honest. I go to Venice the next day for the Venice Film Festival, so don't cry too hard for me. But I am sorry that I'm going to miss you and Michael Clayton on the big screen and all of our friends here in Los Angeles. That's a cool festival that we have been a part of. Yes, friend of the fest. The American Cinemattock puts it on every year. There are a few other ringer podcasters who are presenting films across that time. Look out for that in the calendar.

Okay, summer movies. We've had an interesting summer, you and I. We have been, I would say,

mixed on the movies this summer. Sure. Some high highs, some low lows, some breaks with consensus,

some strident opinions. Are you feeling like this has been a good one?

This is Christ, I just thought about, I mean, I don't know. How do we, that's, I feel like this is the

common condition now. How do we answer this? Like the, you know, everything is on fire.

Sometimes quite literally here in Los Angeles. And, you know, there were some good movies.

It hasn't been the best summer movie here. I think that's true qualitatively. I think that's

true at the box office. I think that's true in my heart. But I, again, there were things I liked. I don't know. Could have been worse. Yeah.

Could have been better. That's kind of where I'm at. I don't think it's bad, but I don't think

it's good. It's kind of right in the middle. We obviously are in a recovery period in the aftermath of

the strikes and, you know, a post-COVID theatrical experience and a lot of franchises going up and a lot of

franchises going down and trying to figure out where they're going to get settled.

In general, yeah, I think it's been just fine.

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