Episode 284: - Ne Zha 2 & The 2025 Academy Awards

After the catastrophe, although the souls of Ne Zha and Ao Bing were saved, their bodies would soon be shattered. Now, in order to help Ao Bing’s soul recover his tangible body, Ne Zha will have to hide his identity as a demon, overcome multiple obstacles to become an immortal, and obtain a miraculous elixir to aid his pal in 'Ne Zha 2' (哪吒2), the chinese animated children's epic that's just unseated Disney's 'Inside Out 2' as the highest grossing animated feature film in history with over $2 billion in box office returns (and hardly any attention in the United States).The 2025 Academy Awards went off without a hitch this year - unless you were watching on Hulu like the rest of us - but what of the ceremony? How'd Conan O'Brian perform as the host? Did Amazon pay for that big James Bond tribute in the middle of the broadcast? And with Sean Baker's 'Anora' taking home most of the awards, how did our favorite runner-ups like 'The Brutalist', 'Conclave', 'The Substance', and 'Dune 2' fare - and who built the better predictions ballot?On Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one in 'Black Christmas', the 2006 holiday horror from the heyday of 'Final Destination' producers starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, and the late Michelle Trachtenberg.Also, Jason Statham announces his return to David Ayer's 'The Beekeeper 2', 'Megalopolis' director Francis Ford Coppola gets tilted by the Razzies, and if the Oscars were on this weekend, then why the slow box office?Movie News, Movie Reviews, and more every Tuesday on Off Script Film Review!