Film critic Richard Crouse joins for two conversations covering the week’s biggest entertainment stories and a pair of cocktails built for a superhero movie night.

A Single Line of Code Nearly Killed Pixar
Toy Story 5 just posted the second biggest animation opening of all time, but Richard Crouse traces the franchise back to a near-catastrophe: in 1998, one misfired Unix command deleted 90% of Toy Story 2 in seconds. The only surviving copy lived on a home workstation belonging to a supervising technical director who had just had a newborn. Crouse also gets into why the fifth film actually works when it shouldn’t, the 30-year nostalgia cycle that keeps bringing audiences back, and what the AI voice licensing debate means for actors like Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine.

Supergirl Starts Strong and Plays It Safe
Crouse reviews Supergirl, now in theaters. The film opens with a genuinely unpredictable, messy character that he finds refreshing. By the midpoint, it has become exactly what every other superhero movie is. He also bartends two drinks built for the occasion: a Supergirl cocktail with blue curaçao, white rum, and maraschino cherries, and a Classic Kryptonite featuring Midori floated over coconut rum and pineapple juice.

Topics: Richard Crouse, Toy Story 5, Supergirl movie review, AI voice licensing, Booze and Reviews

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Originally aired on2026-06-25