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This week on The Collider Podcast, we're talking about Sausage Party and Pete's Dragon.  With Sausage Party, we discuss the film's religious subtext, if it succeeds at being funny, what it could mean for future R-rated animated features, and more.  When it comes to Pete's Dragon, we rave about David Lowery's direction, how it's not a typical family film, Disney's winning streak of remaking their past movies, and more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're joined by @HaleighFoutch to talk about Suicide Squad.  We talk about the film's strength, its weakness, the production, how the story could have been improved, Harley Quinn, the Joker, why Warner Bros. is struggling with its DC movies, and more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we talk about Jason Bourne, explain why it doesn't work as well as past Bourne films, look at the history of the Bourne franchise, the franchise's impact on the action genre, and we take an odd detour exploring the terrible movies of 2002.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we talk about Star Trek Beyond.  We compare it to J.J. Abrams' films, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, what director Justin Lin brings to the table, how it fits into the overall Trek franchise, Star Trek Discovery, where the Trek films go from here, and more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we talk about Paul Feig's Ghostbusters.  We discuss why the film is a success, how it compares to the previous Ghostbusters movies, why its mere existence has evoked such passionate reactions, and more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we look ahead to Comic-Con.  We discuss how and why this is the first time we won't be attending in years, how we plan to cover the popular convention, how Comic-Con has changed over the years, what this year might hold, and more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we finish up our two-part episode on the films of Steven Spielberg. We discuss A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, War of the Worlds, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies and The BFG.  We also look ahead to Ready Player One, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and Indiana Jones 5 before discussing Spielberg's legacy.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're delve into part 1 of our two-part episode on the films of Steven Spielberg.  We discuss Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Always, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, and Saving Private Ryan.  It's a big episode.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we talk about Duncan Jones's Warcraft.  We talk about the film's strengths and weakness, its stunning visuals and effects, its frustrating story and characters, and much more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we talk about Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse.  We discuss the film's many flaws, how it compares to the other X-Men movies, how it came up short of expectations, what Adam learned when he visited the set last year, and much more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're talking about Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and The Nice Guys. We discuss comedy sequels, while Neighbors 2 is the rare comedy sequel that works, what it takes for comedy sequel to work, the noir influences of The Nice Guys, the work of director/co-writer Shane Black, and much more.  As usual, we finish up with our recommendations.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we talk about some recent news stories including Shane Black gender-swapping the Iron Man 3 villain at the studio's request, fans still being upset over an all-female Ghostbusters, DC's proposed Harley Quinn movie, the DC management shakeup, Black Panther casting, Godzilla 2 losing director Gareth Edwards, and Adam's visit to the set of Assassin's Creed.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're talking Captain America: Civil War.  We discuss the film's strengths, weaknesses, how it fits into the larger scheme of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how it relates to other 2016 superhero movies (bonus points if you guess how long it takes us to mention Batman v Superman), and much more.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're joined by TV editor Allison Keene because we are all about TV this week.  On this episode, we discuss (in this order):  American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, Fargo, American Horror Story, FX comedies, Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, Veep, Girls, Vinyl, The Night Manager, Better Call Saul, Preacher, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, the Punisher spinoff series, The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and Containment.  We also finish up with our recommendations.

This week on The Collider Podcast, we talk about Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book, its stunning technological achievement, Disney's success with turning their animated movies into live-action films, if these incidents can become a trend for the studio with more live-action adaptations on the way, and more.  We also dig into the mailbag to answer some of your questions.