The Bear: Created by Christopher Storer for Hulu starring Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Ebebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colon-Zayas.  Based on the Chicago deli Mr Beef.

Thor: Love and Thunder: from Marvel.  Written and Directed by Taiki Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Taiki Waititi, with appearances from Russell Crow, Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista.

Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Stanford Festival in Stanford, Ontario.  Directed by Peter Pasyk.  Starring Amaka Umeh, Graham Abbey, Maev Beaty, Austin Eckert, Jakob Ehman, Ijeoma Emesowum and Andrea Rankin.

War of the Worlds (1953) Adapted from H.G. Wells book for Paramount Pictures. Directed by Byron Haskin.  Starring Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Gigio and Lewis Martin.

Ewan McGregor returns as the title character in Obi-Wan Kenobi.  This new chapter in the Star Wars Sega is directed by Deborah Chow and starts Vivien Lyra Blair and Moses Ingram and has Hayden Christensen returning as Darth Vader. 

H. Jon Benjamin, Kristen Schaal, Dan Mintz, John Roberts, Eugene Mirman all return as the Belchers for the The Bob's Burger Movie, adapted from the TV series of the same name.  Also returning are the Fischoeders, Kevin Kline and Zac Galifianakis with the addition of David Wain.

From Simon and Schuster and author Stephen Graham Jones is the novel My Heart is A Chainsaw.  Book one of The Indian Lake Trilogy.

Season 4 of Stranger Things sees the return of the Duffer Brothers story telling with Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Matthew Modine, Paul Reiser and Maya Hawke all returning from season 3.

This week we talk about:

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness from Marvel Studio directed by Sam Raimi, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizebeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez and Rachel McAdams.

Shining Girls on AppleTV, created by Silka Luisa starring Elizebeth Moss and Wagner Moura.

Our Flag Means Death on HBOMax, created by David Jenkins starring Rhys Darby, Taiki Waititi, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher and Kristian Nairn.

Bullshit The Game Show on Netflix, created by Jonty Nash and Christopher Potts and hosted by Howie Mandel.

After a long hiatus we are back and we start off with the newest rendition of the DC Comics great detective.  From writer/director Matt Reeves is The Batman starring Robert Pattinson it the title roll.  Also with Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrel and Paul Dano.

Then we take a trip down Star Trek lane exploring Picard, Lower Decks and Discovery and get into a general Star Trek timeline conversation.

And last we discuss the debut novel from Jael Richardson, Gutter Child from Harper Collins Publishing.

The Netflix original baking show, Is It Cake? with host Mikey Day.

The HBOMax series, Our Flag Means Death from creator David Jerkins and staring Rhys Darby, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo and Taika Waitti.

From AppleTV is For All Mankind from creators Ronald R. Moore, Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert.  Starring Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Wrenn Schmidt, Shantel VanSanten and many more.

Lastly from FOX TV is The Great North with voices of Nick Offerman, Jenny Slate, Will Forte, Dulcé Sloan and many others.

This week for CBC Canada Reads we talk about Life in The City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Müller from Penguin Random House Canada.

From creator Dan Erickson and director Ben Stiller the AppleTV+ series, Severance.  Starring Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman with Patricia Arquette and Christopher Walken.

From Amazon Prime is the comedy competition show, Last One Laughing Canada.  Hosted by Jay Barchel and with Caroline Rhea, Debra DiGiovanni, Jonathan Lajoie, Brandon Ash Mohammed, Andrew Phung, Dave Foley, Colin Mochrie, K. Trevor Wilson, Mae Martin and Tom Green.

Also from AppleTV+ is the series The Afterparty.  Created by Christopher Miller and Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoe Chao, Ike Barinholtz, Ben Schwartz, Ilana Glazer.

The reboot/sequel to the classic slasher flick, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  Directed by David Blue Garcia, this version picks up 50 years after the original and finds Leatherface (Mark Burnham) coming out of hiding.  Also starring Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Jacob Latimore, Moe Dunford and Olwen Fouéré as Sally Hardesty.

Created by and starring Danny McBride is The Righteous Gemstones, a satiric take on the world of televangelism.  With John Goodman, Adam Devine, Cassidy Freeman and Walton Goggins.

And finally from director Ilya Naishuller and writer Derek Kolstad is the John Wick style action movie, Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael Ironside.

Nominated for the Best Picture Oscar is Belfast from TKBC.  Directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Doran, Ciarán Hinds and Judi Dench.  Nominated for Best Picture,Director, Screenplay (Branagh), Supporting Actor (Hinds), Sound, Original Song (Down to Joy), Supporting Actress (Dench)

For CBC Canada Reads we discus What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad from Penguin Random House Publishing.

Also an Oscar Nominated Movie is Nightmare Alley from Fox Searchlight Pictures.  Directed by Guillermo del Toro and with an star studded cast like Bradly Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, William Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen and many more.  Nominated for Best Picture, Production Design, Costume Design and Cinematography.