Since it’s been a hot minute since our last show, we thought we would kick things off with a “quick” overview of what we’ve been watching and then follow it up with a mid-year top 5 alas, our “quick check-in” turned out to be an hour long so we’ve split the show into two.

In part one, Steve Stebbing (Letterboxd, Twitter, Website), Melissa McDowell (Letterboxd, Twitter), Bill Harris (Letterboxd, Twitter), and Marina (Letterboxd, Instagram) dig into a plethora of titles, from new Mission Impossible to season 2 of “The Bear.”

Films discussed in this episode:

• The Flash
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Nimona
• Blue Jean
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
• No Hard Feelings
• Elemental
• Asteroid City
• Hypnotic
• Past Lives
• The Mother
• Blue Bayou
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• The Covenant
• Mafia Mamma
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Creed III
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline