The Top 10 Movie Plot Twists and ‘The Drama.’ Plus: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Certainly Exists.

The Big Picture

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Sean and Amanda open the show by tackling some movie news headlines, including the green-lighting of a ‘Weapons’ prequel at Warner Bros., speculation that ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ could premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and the first trailer for 20-year-old Kane Parsons’s highly anticipated horror film, ‘Backrooms’ (1:07). Then, they cover ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,’ which they found to be creatively and aesthetically bankrupt, and explain why they think it is an “evil movie” (13:56). Next, they unpack Kristoffer Borgli’s untraditional romantic comedy ‘The Drama,’ starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson (33:03). They break down why they anticipate a divided public reception, explain why they found the movie’s flipping of rom-com tropes to be hugely successful, and fully spoil the movie by analyzing its central “twist.” Finally, they share a list of their top 10 favorite movie plot twists of all time (1:08:15). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh Drivers wanted. Learn more at https://vw.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:16.7	I'm Amanda Davin.
0:17.7	And this is the big picture, a conversation show about drama, mind games, Mario, and Yahoo!
0:23.8	On today's show, we will dive into two new releases that could not be farther apart in terms of target audience, craft, and cultural appeal.
0:30.0	The first movie I'm talking about is Christopher Borgley's new Doomcom, The Drama, which stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as an engaged couple whose relationship takes a twist in the lead-up to their wedding.
0:39.8	The second movie is the Super Mario Galaxy movie, which is the sequel to 2023 smash hit Super Mario Brothers movie.
0:47.9	One of these movies is for kids.
0:49.7	One of them is for arrested development millennials.
0:52.5	One hinges on a twist.
0:54.4	The other is without a brain.
0:56.4	We're also going to talk about our favorite movie plot twists ever, which is related to one of these two movies.
1:01.1	I won't say which.
1:02.5	But first we have some movie news to get into right after this.
1:07.5	I'm back from a spring break.
1:09.2	Welcome.
1:09.8	Thanks.
2:02.1	There's been some news. Yeah. There's going to be a weapons prequel. Yeah. How logged onto the news were you while on Spring Break? Not at all, really. Not at all. It's a movie news? I don't know. I mean, I was closely tracking the price of gas in this country, which seems to be a serious issue. Yeah. Are you, you're just logging on to that? Well, I don't, I drive an EV, so I don't really follow that. So, you know, it seems to be a real issue. Yeah, the coastal elites with the EVs. Yeah, it's a nightmare. Evis are spread across this fine country. And frankly, they're going to spread even more based on what's happening here in America. Okay, no, weapons. There's going to be a prequel, Gladys, which I think we understood was going to happen after the breakout success of that movie. It's going to be written by Zach Craigor, who of course wrote and directed the original. And Zach Shields, I say Gladys, you say what? Is Amy Madigan involved? I... Or is it younger Gladys? Maybe in like a bookended way, right?
2:03.9	We see her like... You say what? Is Amy Madigan involved? I... Or is it younger Gladys?
2:02.1	Maybe in like a bookended way, right?
2:03.9	We see her like at the beginning of the movie to situate the audience and then we see
2:08.0	her at the end getting her flesh torn off of her body.
2:10.2	Okay.
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