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NEW PODCAST EPISODe: film review | sinister (2012)

Happy New Year, Sinners! Turn off your lights, get out the reel-to-reel, pour yourself several scotch on the rocks and grab your favorite cardigan, today we’re going to paint the house red with Mr. Boogie because we watched Sinister (2012).

BUT FIRST… before we light this film on fire like it’s a family station wagon in a garage…

In this month’s Aardvark Book Club box, Sara got the following books: It Should Have Been You by Andrea Mara, Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (a signed special edition!).

In Greg’s Bonus Film Reel we discuss the animated film on Hulu, Predator: Killer of Killers (2025). In Sara’s Bonus Book Shelf, we discuss a book that Sara could not help but treat Greg to many passages from couldn’t stop recommending: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk.

We also discuss the movies and films we’re looking forward to in 2026, including (but not limited to):

  • FILMS:
    • No Other Choice
    • Project Hail Mary
    • The Bride
    • Send Help
    • Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
  • BOOKS:
    • Bed Rot Baby by Wendy Dalrymple
    • Greedy by Callie Kazumi
    • The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
    • Molka by Monika Kim
    • Meat Bees by Dane Erbach

Join us.

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