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OV478 – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) & Mountainhead (2025) – Guests: Brandon Cruz and Chelsea Cruz – The Obsessive Viewer – Movie Review Podcast

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This week, Brandon and Chelsea Cruz from Our Reel Relationships Podcast join me to review the latest Mission: Impossible film, The Final Reckoning in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, I share my non-spoiler thoughts on Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead. We also discuss recent movie and TV news, screenings around Indianapolis, and more.

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Mic Info

• Matt: ElectroVoice RE20 into RØDEcaster Pro II (Firmware: 1.5.4)
• Brandon: Sennheiser AT897 into RØDEcaster Pro II (Firmware: 1.5.4) via Google Meet
• Chelsea: RØDE Podmic into RØDEcaster Pro II (Firmware: 1.5.4) via Google Meet

Timestamps

• Show Start – 00:28
• Introducing Brandon and Chelsea – 02:18
• Screening in Indy – 19:42
• News Before the Reviews – 26:18

Feature Review

• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) – 37:15
• Spoiler – 1:25:12

Secondary Review

• Mountainhead (2025) – 2:06:32

• Closing the Ep – 2:21:48
• Patreon Clip – 2:22:46

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