The summer movie season offers the promise of a special kind of escape. With our brains and bodies fried from the heat, we go to the multiplex less for the subtlety of great cinema and more for big pleasures: belly laughs, impossible action sequences, jump scares, and explosions. Lots and lots of explosions. But which movie years best delivered on that promise? This week, Adam and Josh break out the spreadsheets to determine the Top 5 Movie Summers of all time (or at least since 1975), and Josh weighs in on Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS and Pixar's LIGHTYEAR.
0:00 - Billboard
1:20 - Top 5 Movie Summers
30:28 - Reviews (JL): "Elvis," "Lightyear"
39:10 - Next Week / Notes
44:10 - Massacre Theatre
49:51 - Top 5 Movie Summers, cont.
1:10:50 - Outro
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