With our PROJECT HAIL MARY review coming Friday, we’re revisiting a Filmspotting blast from beyond: 2014’s Top 5 Things From Space (That Came to Destroy Us). B-movies, classic sci-fi, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all make the cut.

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With our PROJECT HAIL MARY review coming Friday, we&rsquo;re revisiting a Filmspotting blast from beyond: 2014&rsquo;s Top 5 Things From Space (That Came to Destroy Us). B-movies, classic sci-fi, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all make the cut.
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Rico Gagliano (MUBI Podcast) joins Adam and Josh for the Top 5 Needle Drops, a conversation so robust we split it in half. Plus, the new It Ends earns a Golden Brick nomination, and listeners tell us the best third feature since 2020.

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Filmspotting Family (01:02:52-01:07:33)

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Rico Gagliano (<a href="https://mubi.buzzsprout.com/">MUBI Podcast</a>) joins Adam and Josh for the Top 5 Needle Drops, a conversation so robust we split it in half. Plus, the new&nbsp;It Ends earns a Golden Brick nomination, and listeners tell us the best third feature since 2020.
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Filmspotting Family (01:02:52-01:07:33)
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Top 5 Needle Drops (Pt. 1) and It Ends | #1078

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David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street drops an ordinary family into extraordinary circumstances, forcing them to focus all their energy on surviving— and maybe, just maybe, learning to understand each other along the way. That structure, combined with Oak Street’s Spielbergian spectacle, pointed us toward 2005’s War of the Worlds, which fuses H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel to images and emotions that draw on the attacks of 9/11. How that approach holds up a quarter-century removed from the events that inspired it is up for discussion this week, along with where War of the Worlds falls on the Steven Spielberg Alien-Encounter Continuum, and just how close that sentimental ending comes to ruining the movie entirely. Then in Feedback, a listener, with an assist from Orson Welles, invites us to get galaxy-brained on the nature of homage as it relates to cinema generally and this podcast specifically. 

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David Robert Mitchell&rsquo;s&nbsp;The End of Oak Street&nbsp;drops an ordinary family into extraordinary circumstances, forcing them to focus all their energy on surviving&mdash; and maybe, just maybe, learning to understand each other along the way. That structure, combined with&nbsp;Oak Street&rsquo;s Spielbergian spectacle, pointed us toward 2005&rsquo;s&nbsp;War of the Worlds,&nbsp;which fuses H.G. Wells&rsquo; 1898 novel to images and emotions that draw on the attacks of 9/11. How that approach holds up a quarter-century removed from the events that inspired it is up for discussion this week, along with where&nbsp;War of the Worlds&nbsp;falls on the Steven Spielberg Alien-Encounter Continuum, and just how close that sentimental ending comes to ruining the movie entirely. Then in Feedback, a listener, with an assist from Orson Welles, invites us to get galaxy-brained on the nature of homage as it relates to cinema generally and this podcast specifically.&nbsp;
Please share your thoughts about War of the Worlds, The End of Oak Street, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email or voice memo to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:comments@nextpictureshow.net">comments@nextpictureshow.net</a>, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.
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The Family That's Prey Together, Pt. 1 — War of the Worlds (2005)

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In 2023, Adam and Josh took another look at 1988's Midnight Run for its 35th anniversary. The Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin action comedy was an early and somewhat controversial inductee in the Filmspotting Pantheon, a decision they use their conversation to defend.  

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In 2023, Adam and Josh took another look at 1988's Midnight Run for its 35th anniversary. The Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin action comedy was an early and somewhat controversial inductee in the Filmspotting Pantheon, a decision they use their conversation to defend.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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