February 20, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Captain America: Brave New World,” “Paddington in Peru,” and the 2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films — Animated and Live Action



Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk movies and wonder aloud about the wisdom of re-releasing The Comeback Trail (dir George Gallo, starr Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Eddie Griffin, Kate Katzman, and Blerim Destani) and showing it once a day at 9PM. Yeah, that doesn’t make much sense, does it?

  • Captain America: Brave New World (dir Julius Onah, starr Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford).
  • Paddington in Peru (dir Dougal Wilson, starr Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Carla Tous, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, and Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington).

Then there are the fifteen short films, both animated and live-action, that have been nominated for Oscars — brace yourself:

  • Yuck! (dir Loïc Espuch, feat the voices of Noé Chabbat, Katell Varvat, Enzo Desmedt, Camille Bouisson, Hugo Chauvel, Roman Freud, Mattias Marcussy, Mokhtar Camara, Olivia Chatain, and Théo Costa-Marini).
  • Magic Candles (dir Daisuke Nishio, feat voices Yoshifumi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Haruto Shima, Sakiko Uran, Ikkei Watanabe, Kazuhiro Yamaji, and Kiko Ôi).
  • Beautiful Men (dir Nicolas Keppens, feat voice Peter Van den Begin, Peter de Graef, and Tom Dewispelaere).
  • In the Shadow of the Cypress (dirs Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani, starr Zahra Moosavi).
  • Wander to Wonder (dir Nina Gantz, feat voice Neil Salvage, Toby Jones, Amanda Lawrence, and Terence Dunn).
  • The Last Ranger (dir Cindy Lee, starr Avumile Qongqo, Liyabona Mroqoza, and David S Lee).
  • Anuja (dir Adam J Graves, starr Sajda Pathan, Ananya Shanbhag, Nagesh Bhonsle, Gulshan Walia, Sushil Parwana, Sunita Bhadauria, Rudolfo Rajeev Hubert, Jugal Kishore, and Pankaj Gupta).
  • A Lien (dirs David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, starr William Martinez, Victoria Ratermanis, Koralyn Rivera, and Jennifer Bergum).
  • I’m Not a Robot (dir Victoria Warmerdam, starr Ellen Parren, Henry van Loon, Thekla Reuten, Juliette van Ardenne, and Asma El Mouden).
  • The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (dir Nebojša Slijepčević, starr Dragan Mićanović, Goran Bogdan, and Alexis Manenti).
  • The documentary Instruments of a Beating Heart (dir Ema Ryan Yamazaki).
  • The doc The Only Girl in the Orchestra (dir Molly O’Brien).
  • The doc Death by Numbers (dir Kim A Snyder).
  • The doc I Am Ready, Warden (dir Smriti Mundhra).
  • The doc Incident (dir Bill Morrison).

Previews:

  • The Monkey (dir Osgood Perkins, starr Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, and Elijah Wood).
  • The Unbreakable Boy (dir Jon Gunn, starr Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy, Jacob Laval, Drew Powell, Gavin Warren, and Patricia Heaton)

“Captain America: Brave New World,” “Paddington in Peru,” and the 2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films — Animated and Live Action