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The Big Picture · Discussion · Review
The Top 10 Movie Plot Twists and ‘The Drama.’ Plus: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Certainly Exists.
April 3, 2026/ 85 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins pan 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,' make the case for Kristoffer Borgli's 'The Drama,' and trade their favorite movie plot twists.
46 films across 4 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
The Movie Newsprequels, delays, and a spring-break catch-up
The Adventures of Cliff Booth
Fincher-directed, Tarantino-scripted Brad Pitt vehicle, now eyeing a fall bow (maybe Venice) over summer. Sean can't square a reported $40M salary with a Netflix release.
Backrooms 2025
A24's late-May horror from 20-year-old Kane Parsons, with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve in an infinite-rooms nightmare. Sean calls the trailer Kubrickian and feels his own mortality.
Project Hail Mary
The Gosling-in-a-helmet marketing is landing hard with small kids; Sean's son mistook the 'Galaxy' poster for it.
Ally
Bong Joon-ho's 2027 animated feature, teased with a squid-piglet creature. Sean's in on anything Bong.
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’nominated for the show's 'evil movie' designation
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie 2026
A narratively brutal, laser-ships-and-fan-service sequel both hosts found creatively bankrupt and Cocomelon-fast, even as it prints money. Rosalina (Brie Larson) and her sister Princess Peach are the one thread the kids latched onto. Sean's son summed it up: 'a ship that shoots lasers.'
The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023
The modest, tighter-focused first film; Sean laughed more at it.
Free Guy 2021
A prior 'evil movie' inductee.
Fast X 2023
The closest comp: bottom-of-the-barrel spectacle, all fast-and-explode.
How to Train Your Dragon 2010
Cited as an early animated-fantasy-as-action movie.
Kung Fu Panda 2008
A martial-arts movie in animated form.
The Bad Guys 2022
A heist movie in animated form, but with real characters, unlike this.
The Lego Batman Movie 2017
A superhero movie in animated form.
‘The Drama’spoilers throughout; Sean warns you to turn it off
The Drama 2026
Kristoffer Borgli's fourth feature, a doom-com with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. A wine-tasting confession, that Emma once planned a high-school shooting she never carried out, detonates 30 minutes in and turns a wedding rom-com into a real-time moral pressure test. Both hosts loved it; it sidesteps the race and gun politics but nails the wedding-industry satire and Pattinson's bungling, still-hot everyman.
Dream Scenario 2023
Borgli's prior film; he guested for it. Sean thinks it struggled to tie off its ending.
Sick of Myself 2022
Borgli's dark Scandinavian comedy, working the same thesis that everyone is performing a self.
Mickey 17 2025
Another dopey, silly Pattinson turn in the same key.
Materialists 2025
The A24 bait-and-switch comp: sold as a rom-com, delivered something stranger. Zoë Winters had a questionable plotline in that one too.
The Best Movie Plot Twistsa spoiler-filled tour
The Sixth Sense 1999
Amanda saw it cold at 15: Malcolm has been dead the whole time.
The Usual Suspects 1995
Sean's keyhole into what a twist could do: Verbal Kint is Keyser Söze, sold in false flashback.
Psycho 1960
Mrs. Bates is long dead; Norman is the killer.
Casablanca 1942
The secret-spouse turn: Ilsa is already married to Victor Laszlo. Sean's 'Jane Eyre' template.
Planet of the Apes 1968
The Statue of Liberty ending, spoiled for Sean by the surrounding culture.
Soylent Green 1973
'Soylent Green is people,' spoiled by Sean's dad.
Oldboy 2003
Dae-su is tricked into sleeping with his own daughter. 'Park Chan-wook, what a little freak.'
Arrival 2016
The flashbacks are flash-forwards; a devastating late reveal.
Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011
Gosling is dating Steve Carell's daughter, revealed at the backyard barbecue.
The Prestige 2006
They're twins.
The Others 2001
Amenábar's ghost reveal; the living are the dead ones. Slotted in beside the Kidman Hall of Fame.
Primal Fear 1996
Aaron Stampler faked the split personality all along; Amanda argues it ruined the psychopath twist for crime fiction.
Se7en 1995
Less a twist than a shocking revelation: what's in the box.
The Game 1997
A Fincher pure-twist movie; the whole ordeal was staged, revealed only at the end.
Fight Club 1999
Tyler Durden is the narrator.
Gone Girl 2014
The mid-movie flip: Amy staged the entire disappearance.
The Crying Game 1992
The flashpoint reveal Sean's parents argued about; he's still never seen it.
Saw 2004
The corpse on the bathroom floor was Jigsaw the whole time; shocking out of Sundance.
The Mist 2007
The film's added ending: the rescue arrives seconds too late.
Sleepaway Camp 1983
The final-shot reveal of Angela.
Orphan 2009
Esther isn't a child.
The Cabin in the Woods 2012
The whole ordeal is an engineered ritual.
10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
Is Goodman's bunker paranoia or protection? Sean says check it out.
Cloverfield 2008
The found-footage original in the anthology.
Barbarian 2022
Spoiled for Amanda on this very show.
Malignant 2021
Another James Wan swing: Gabriel is inside her.
Parasite 2019
The man in the basement; the family reveal that lands about an hour in.
The Empire Strikes Back 1980
The greatest of them: 'I am your father.' The subject of Amanda's on-air trauma after Zach spoiled it for their son to set up 'Return of the Jedi.'
Also mentioned raised along the way
In the news The KillerThe MartianSaltDoctor StrangeThe Magician's NephewFrankensteinKnives OutAnoraThe Mandalorian and GroguMinions & MonstersGods and MonstersSupergirlThe Last UnicornKPop Demon Hunters
Around ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ FrozenAvatar: The Way of Water
Around ‘The Drama’ The BatmanDuneJane Eyre
The Star Wars trauma Star WarsReturn of the JediRogue One: A Star Wars Story
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV CocomelonThe Simpsons
Video games Mario KartDonkey KongDr. MarioMario PaintMario TennisStar Fox
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