Hey everyone! I’m back with Chloe for another stacked episode of What The Hell Should I Watch — the podcast that cuts through the noise of the new-release pile and tells you what’s actually worth your time.
We kick things off with Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere — a stripped-down, melancholic portrait of Bruce Springsteen during the Nebraska era. Jeremy Allen White gives a haunted, career-best performance as The Boss, while Jeremy Strong brings quiet precision as Jon Landau. Cooper ditches the usual music-biopic gloss for something raw, soulful, and deeply human.
Then we head into the nightmare with Dream Eater, a found-footage horror that actually gets it right. A filmmaker documents her boyfriend’s escalating sleepwalking episodes in an isolated winter cabin, only to discover something ancient and hungry lurking beneath his dreams. It’s tense, eerie, and doesn’t rely on cheap scares — one of the year’s best indie horrors.
Next up: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever — or, as I call it, The Blandest Christmas Sermon Ever. It’s another shiny, faith-based Hallmark special disguised as a movie. Judy Greer and Pete Holmes try their best, but this thing is so sanitized it could air on a church lobby TV between bake-sale announcements. Not offensive, just dull — and absolutely not my kind of Christmas movie.
Then it’s New to the Library, my weekly roundup of fresh discs and box sets to add to your shelf:
📀 Elsbeth: Season 2
📀 Hall Pass
📀 Spenser for Hire: Complete Series
📀 La Femme Nikita: Complete Series
📀 Detroit Rock City
📀 Supernova (2020)
📀 Emergency!: Complete Series
📀 The Ant Bully
📀 Being There
📀 Little House on the Prairie: Complete Series
And in Butting In, Chloe dives into The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol and The Long Walk. One’s another bloated, self-important chapter in AMC’s zombie purgatory — watchable but exhausting — while the other is a lean, brutal Stephen King adaptation that earns every blister. Cooper Hoffman absolutely kills it in The Long Walk, a dystopian survival horror that feels uncomfortably close to reality. It’s relentless, bleak, and the kind of King movie that reminds you how good this material can be when handled right.
Next week, we dive into VIFF coverage with Nouvelle Vague and Christy (the Christy Martin biopic starring Sydney Sweeney), plus full thoughts on Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Bugonia, the new Yorgos Lanthimos / Emma Stone collaboration.
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