Honey Don't!, An Interview With Thunderbolts* Actor Geraldine Viswanathan, and More

On the August 27, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by several people to talk about the latest film and TV news, talk a bit about Honey Don’t!, present an interview with a cast member of Marvel’s Thunderbolts, and wrap up with a listener email.

(~00:38) In The News:

• https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nicolas-cage-true-detective-season-5-1236444023/
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/the-paper-premiere-all-episodes-binge-1236494468/
• https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/good-boy-dog-point-of-view-horror-movie-wide-release-2-1235147111/
• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/highlander-remake-casts-karen-gillan-1236350232/
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-popular-film-ever-1236498083/
• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters-sony-netflix-sequel-talks-1236353972/
• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cobra-kai-creators-tackling-knight-rider-movie-universal-1236353961/
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/pedro-pascal-todd-haynes-gay-movie-de-noche-1236498843/

(~11:45) Jacob’s Trailer Park

• Keeper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8TK8uJjyJg
• Good Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-CRkd_74g
• Ballad of a Small Player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVuAfgSLFI4
• Fallout season 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TsP09cZA7o
• The Mastermind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcncY3iYol0
• Arco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNUkW6ywV-c
• Anemone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVqoyMi98OI

(~25:50) Honey Don’t!

Honey Don't! Review: Margaret Qualley Sizzles In Ethan Coen's Moody, Unabashedly Queer Noir

(~38:00) Geraldine Viswanathan interview

(~52:34) Listener email

YiFeng from Boston wrote in, offering some more information about the conversation Bill and I had about physical media last week:

1. The biggest jump in quality on disc vs streaming is audio! Currently, ALL streaming platforms are lossy. An average 2hr film is around 500 megabytes lossy for streaming (equivalent to crappy mp3s) vs 5 GIGAbytes lossless (basically identical to studio masters, with no loss at all). So if Wes has full range speakers, you can tell movie soundtracks on Blu-rays have 10x more information than any streaming platforms.

2. As for video quality, bitrate-wise the most famous example is the Game of Thrones episode, “The Long Night,” which was a pixelated dark mess on HBO Max, but on 4k disc using a properly calibrated Dolby Vision display, you won’t see pixelization nor macroblocking but pristine high quality hdr image. The biggest selling feature of 4k is hdr!

3. At the time of this email, Gemini Man (and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk) are the only two titles on 4k disc encoded with 60fps dolby vision. Every other 4k disc is 24fps. Currently, 4k discs do not allow for higher than 60fps but can potentially be updated to be variable or 120fps, but as of today, it tops out at 60fps.

All the other stuff you need to know:

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