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Episode 134 - Catherine O'Hara, Sinners Oscar Noms, The Rip & The Beast in Me

February 4, 2026·29 min·10 clips

DMR starts loose. Dewey opens with a reminder that the show is in Audible's Creators Program, points listeners to the 30-day free-trial link, and recommends Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a roughly six-hour audiobook tied to Johnny Depp's film, Hunter S. Thompson, and Ron McLarty's narration. Then it pivots. From there, he moves into Sinners, says it is very good, and reacts to the film pulling 16 Oscar nominations with real surprise. That reaction hangs around. He sets Sinners beside big-name past nominees like Forrest Gump, Gladiator, Oppenheimer, and Saving Private Ryan, which keeps the praise grounded instead of drifting into hype. Next comes The Rip. Dewey lays out its Netflix release, 1 hour and 52 minute runtime, R rating, crime drama and action label, and the pairing of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, then notes the director and the two stars among the producers. He likes the cast. Even so, he keeps circling back to the fact that it is going straight to streaming, arguing that the move skips the cinematic experience and feels like a miss for a movie with that setup. The numbers get airtime. Rotten Tomatoes figures come up too, with the critics score at 79 percent and the audience score at 64 percent, which he treats as solid but not exactly untouchable. A blurbed pitch follows. The film is framed as a gritty, high-pressure crime thriller where loyalty keeps getting tested and every decision carries weight, and that framing matches the way he keeps describing the stakes. The tone stays chatty. He talks the way he usually does, with quick pivots, small backtracks, and a very present-tense reaction style that sounds like someone talking straight after watching rather than polishing a review. TikTok gets a mention. He shouts out the DMR page, notes the large follower and like counts, and points to the millions of views the channel has pulled over the past year. Then he signs off. The episode closes with a thank-you and a familiar invitation to keep coming back for more mixed-bag movie chatter.

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A loose movie chat that swings from Oscar reaction to streaming skepticism.

DMR keeps this one loose and conversational, moving from an Audible mention and a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas recommendation into wider movie talk.

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A mixed-bag swing through Oscar chatter and a Netflix crime-thriller check-in.

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