Friday Film: A Talking Teddy Bear, Family Fun and More

Hosted by Barbara Bogaev Jun. 26, 2015

This weekend brings plenty of new summer movies. Samuel L. Jackson is the president in Big Game. A dog with PTSD teaches a family to love again in Max. Ted 2 brings back that foul mouthed talking teddy bear. All that and more in our Friday film segment.

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Credits

Guests:

William Bibbiani - film critic and co-host of the Critically Acclaimed Network of podcasts - @williambibbiani
Witney Seibold - contributor to SlashFilm and co-host of the podcast "Critically Acclaimed" - @witneyseibold

Host:

Barbara Bogaev

Producers:

Matt Holzman, Anna Scott, Jolie Myers, Christian Bordal, Ryan Kailath

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