The Big Picture

@thebigpicture · Podcast

Latest segments

• Wildwood opens, 2026-10-30
  Recaps the 16-year path from manuscript to screen
  Knight tells the origin story of the adaptation: Laika optioned Colin Meloy's novel before it was published, he read a 133-page manuscript, and the film took 16 years to make, with each earlier Laika film serving as R&D.
• Wildwood opens, 2026-10-30
  Weighs the Coyote ruling against the frontrunner
  Turns from reviewing Wildwood to the Best Animated Feature race, where the weekend's eligibility ruling for Coyote vs. Acme complicates Wildwood's frontrunner status. Notes the hybrid-animation precedent and Bauza's death in passing.
• Wildwood opens, 2026-10-30
  Debates who a $100 million stop-motion film is for
  Reviews Wildwood and debates who the film is for, weighing its $100 million budget and the compression of a long 2011 novel into one film. The audience question is the segment's own argument; the budget figure is the one new fact.
• Wicker opens, 2026-10-30
  Reports an $8 million opening for Black Bear
  Reviews Wicker at length - the Sundance debut, the married directing duo, the ad campaign's wicker nipples, the Peter Dinklage third act - and puts the opening weekend on the record: $8 million, the first real hit for Black Bear's distribution arm.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-30
  Reports the DGA director ineligibility
  Updates the box office past $50 million and turns to the awards campaign, reporting that Fielder and Oppenheim are ineligible for the DGA's Best Director prize because documentary filmmakers are barred from it, while the film stays eligible for Best Picture.
• The Devils restoration, 2026-10-23
  Covers the Devils restoration and its gross
  Covers the limited release of the restored The Devils, its $2 million weekend, the handful of restored minutes, and Vanessa Redgrave's BFI appearance. Notes a 4K is expected in 2027 and that Clockwork is distributing through a new imprint.
• Clayface review, 2026-10-23
  Reviews Clayface as a mixed body-horror swing
  Reviews DC Studios' Clayface as a mixed body-horror experiment: strong kills and a wild second half, but a tonal clash and an origin-heavy first hour. Frames it as DC's first small-scale genre swing and looks ahead to James Gunn's slate.
• Tom Skerritt dies at 93, 2026-10-23
  Recalls Skerritt's filmography and interview
  Recalls Skerritt's death and runs through the filmography - M.A.S.H., Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias, Altman - and the 1990s interview where he called himself a character actor in a leading man's body. A fond retelling that stays inside the death notice.
• Bond finalists screen test, 2026-10-23
  Ranks Bond finalists and adds Elordi is out
  Runs through Deadline's final four for Bond and the screen test reportedly set for next week, then ranks the candidates. Adds that Jacob Elordi is out and that Amy Pascal and David Heyman, not the Broccolis, are making the call.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-20
  Slots the documentary fourth in Best Picture rankings
  Best Picture power rankings segment that slots You Can See Everything in at number four, weighing its rapturous Letterboxd and box office reception against uncertainty over whether Academy voters overlap with that young audience.
• New Sense and Sensibility film, 2026-10-20
  Reviews the adaptation against the 1995 film
  Reviews the new adaptation against the 1995 Ang Lee film, faulting its dim natural lighting, soft focus and slow pacing, and crediting Esme Creed-Miles while finding Daisy Edgar-Jones underused. Names the director and screenwriter and reads the film as Bronte-ified Austen.
• Soderbergh finishes The Batman Part II, 2026-10-20
  Reacts to Soderbergh finishing the Batman film
  Reacts to the news that Soderbergh is finishing The Batman Part II, reading it through Soderbergh's habit of solving other people's filmmaking problems and comparing it to Richard Donner's Superman II exit. Speculates about a Harvey Dent plot and Sebastian Stan's Godfather comparison.
• Netflix replaces Bajaria, 2026-10-20
  Covers the Netflix shakeup as a business story
  Covers the Netflix shakeup as a business story: the layoffs, Bajaria's firing, Dan Lin's exit, and Peter Rice's hire. Reads the Rice pick as a possible turn toward taste over volume, and notes Fincher and Baumbach leaving.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-20
  Recaps the opening weekend numbers
  Recaps the opening weekend numbers - $15 million on under 900 screens, the biggest non-music documentary since Fahrenheit 9-11, more than 2,000 sellouts - and credits Fielder, A24's marketing and renewed Holmes interest. Stays inside the figures already on the record.
• Apatow's Bamford documentary, 2026-10-16
  Recounts the $500 and three years of filming
  Apatow walks through how the Bamford documentary began - the $500 she demanded before cameras rolled, the CVS delivery of antidepressants in the first conversation - and the three years of filming that followed, including her family deaths and the Altadena fires.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-16
  Retells the film's final act scene by scene
  Walks through the film's final act: the beach text, the milk left in the fridge for Ivy, the drive to Texas and the goodbye outside the car. Scene-by-scene retelling of the documentary, with no new reporting beyond what the film shows.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-16
  Close-reads the can-versus-capable and Who's on First scenes
  Close read of two scenes from the documentary: the can-versus-capable semantic argument, where Holmes brings out broken Theranos parts, and the Who's on First routine, after which she cannot say why it is funny. Stays inside the film's psychology, with no new reporting.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-16
  Profiles Billy Evans and adds the father's claim
  Long segment on Billy Evans as the film's breakout figure: his control of the household, the shower scene, the egg-beating moment, and the hosts' split over whether the marriage is real or performance. Adds one on-record detail from the film about Holmes's father.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-16
  Walks through the disputed Times scene and missing tapes
  Walks through the film's early New York Times scene: the disputed Jennifer Lawrence quote, Holmes and Evans insisting they have tapes, and the tapes never appearing. Reads it as the movie's stand-in for the honesty question, and stays inside the film's own framing.
• Fielder's Holmes documentary, 2026-10-16
  Reviews the film as the year's best
  Spoiler-free review of You Can See Everything that recaps Holmes's Theranos history and the film's premise, then argues it is the movie of the year for its inquiry into truth and documentary form. Stays inside the reception the film already has.