Table Read

After a five-year hiatus, Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is back on the big screen with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, this time battling anonymity, a host of nemeses, and some arachnid-related changes. Adam and Josh have a review. Plus thoughts on the new doc Everybody to Kenmure Street and the latest from Pulse and Cloud director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, The Samurai and the Prisoner.
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Intro (00:00:00-00:02:22)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (00:02:23-00:44:22)
Filmspotting Family (00:44:23-00:48:35)
Everybody to Kenmure Street (00:48:36-01:08:32)
The Samurai and the Prisoner (01:08:33-01:12:39)
Massacre Theatre (01:12:40-01:20:03)
Credits / Releases (01:20:04-01:24:02)
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With the world’s Spidey sense activated by the latest Spider-Man installment (Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day), Adam and Josh look back at the webslinger’s first 25 years on the screen with their Top 5 Spider-Man Scenes. Yes, even Andrew Garfield gets some love.
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This episode is presented by⁠ Regal Unlimited⁠⁠, the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits. Use code FILMSPOT26 to take 15% off.
Intro (00:00:00-00:02:35)
Top 5 Spider-Man Scenes (00:02:36-00:41:30)
Filmspotting Family: ‘20s/’30s Madness — Round 2 (00:41:31-00:49:34)
Notes / Poll: Best Spidey Movie (00:49:35-01:03:38)
Top 5 Spider-Man Scenes, cont. (01:03:39-01:34:44)
Credits / Releases (01:34:45-01:37:59)
Links:
“When Mary Jane Kissed Spider-Man” | The Ringer
https://www.theringer.com/2022/05/03/movies/spider-man-kiss-tobey-maguire-kirsten-dunst
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Rooms of Experience, Act 3
By Steffany Sommers
Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells
and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis
The trial begins.
Detective Curtis takes the stand.
Gina tells the jury about the woman who spent sixty-five years caring for her son.
Alexis puts Ada on the stand.
Ada does not ask for forgiveness.
She asks them to understand.
Dana answers with the law.
Alexis answers with lived experience.
An expert insists Teddy could have adapted to a new home.
Ada insists they never knew her son.
Then the case goes to the jury.
But Dana’s real judgment comes somewhere else.
The blue envelopes.
The hospital.
The daughter she left behind.
Dana finally tells Ada the truth.
Her baby was born with Down syndrome.
Dana walked out of the hospital.
She never went back.
And she prosecuted Ada because she needed to believe that leaving her own child had been the right choice.
Ada does not condemn her.
She reminds Dana that not every choice is permanent.
Then she asks the question Dana has avoided for seven years.
What is her daughter’s name?
Maddie.
Before the jury can deliver its verdict, Ada dies quietly in her garden.
In the hollowed-out place where Teddy used to lie.
The case is dismissed.
But the question remains.
At Ada’s funeral, Alexis gives Dana one final letter.
Dana opens it.
She finds Christopher.
She finds Maddie.
And for the first time since that day at the hospital, Dana moves toward her daughter instead of away.
By the end of Act Three, the law never delivers a verdict.
Dana makes a different choice.
Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells
with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis
Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis
Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter
Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca
Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries
Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez
Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon
Alain Uy as Ethan
and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh
Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. A Manifest Media production.
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Rooms of Experience, Act 2
By Steffany Sommers
Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells
and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis
Dana tries to outrun the case.
Literally.
But Ada Wells keeps following her home.
At Teddy’s funeral, Ada collapses.
Alexis asks for mercy.
Dana refuses.
Harvey warns her not to go soft.
The medical examiner confirms it was homicide.
Then reveals Ada could have hidden it.
No visible trauma.
No obvious cause of death.
No reason to test for helium.
But Ada left everything in plain sight.
Detective Curtis admits she never tried to escape responsibility.
Gina cares for Ada as her health begins to fail.
Ethan offers Dana a life built on trust.
And the blue envelopes hidden inside her desk keep demanding the truth.
Then, at Rebecca’s birthday party, Dana is handed a baby.
A little girl named Molly reaches for her.
A child with Down syndrome.
Molly touches Dana’s face.
And something buried begins to surface.
The prosecutor who insists there is always a choice can no longer avoid the choice she made.
By the end of Act Two, Ada Wells is not the only mother being judged.
Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells
with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis
Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis
Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter
Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca
Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries
Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez
Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon
Alain Uy as Ethan
and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh
Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. A Manifest Media production.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rooms of Experience, Act 1
By Steffany Sommers
Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells
and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis
The call comes in at night.
An elderly woman.
A dead son.
A tank of helium left in plain sight.
Ada Wells doesn’t deny it.
She wanted his last day to be peaceful.
Enter Dana Jeffries, razor-sharp, undefeated, and hungry to prove herself.
Her boss, Harvey Davis, assigns the case for one reason: optics.
Defense attorney Alexis Martinez pushes back hard.
Detective Curtis starts questioning his own conclusions.
Gina Gordon protects Ada like family.
Carter becomes another pressure point inside the machine.
Rebecca is caught in the ripple effect.
Then Alexis shows Dana the home movies.
The real story.
The years no one saw.
The cost no one counted.
By the end of Act One, Dana walks out of Ada’s house shaken.
No longer sure the law and justice are the same thing.
Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells
with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis
Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis
Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter
Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca
Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries
Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez
Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon
Alain Uy as Ethan
and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh
Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. A Manifest Media production.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.