In this "Epilogue" to the 2023 Summer Movie Season, host Garret Castleberry recaps the roadmap for this mini-series and its analytic structure. After providing a context for the summer movie season analytic structure, Garret then posits five criteria for "Why Summer Movie Season Works" as the perfect antidote to late summer podcasting malaise (13:35). Then, Garret teases a special programming shift for October (19:40), before returning to map out the hits and misses that fell within the month of August (20:15). Finally, the Critical Captain reviews his top recommendation from each month of the 2023 summer movie calendar (33:40).


Hosts: Garret Castleberry

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended Screenings (Garret):
Jeff Rowe & Kyle Spears. (Directors). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. [Film]. New York: Nickelodeon Animation Studios/Point Grey Pictures/Image Comics/Nikros Animation/Nickelodeon Movies/Paramount Pictures, 2023.

Christopher Nolan. (Director). Oppenheimer. [Film]. Los Alamos, New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Zurich, Switzerland: Universal Pictures/Atlas Entertainment/Gadget Films.

Ontological Obstacles (Garret):
August in General (let alone August movies).

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