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Mamo rings in the New Year with a potpourri discussion of the news of the last few weeks: Ant-Man, Sam Raimi, Steven Soderbergh, awards season, The Interview, The Hobbit, and more. Welcome to 2015!

Happy New Year! Mamo does away with the year-end top ten and in its place, repurposes the Premiere Power List format to count down the top movers, shakers, influencers, and creative superpeople of the film industry for 2014. Who made their mark in the year that was, and will shape the years to come? Join us!

We tie off the vast, troubling Hobbit trilogy with The Battle of the Five Armies, before doubling down on the Sony Hack, The Interview, and what Sony's moves mean for the death of movies.

Team Mamo assesses the damage wrought by the Sony Hack - personal, professional, and otherwise.

In which our discussion jumps from the James Bond announcement to the question of whether anticipating movies has replaced the movies themselves, with detours through Terminator Gineisysy and Suicide Squad.

Well, like Lando said to the guy with the vagina-face before they flew into the Death Star II, here goes nothin'.

In which our heroes tease an obligatory half-hour Mockingjay Part One episode out of perhaps 18 minutes of content, feeling not unlike the movie they are describing.

In which the sound effects of Interstellar are discussed; and the emotional effects of Big Hero 6.

Just one of those throw-it-at-the-wall episodes of Mamo that expands in concentric circles till we're talking about mental health, games, art forms, and narrative itself, along with the proper pronunciation of "Babadook." See if it sticks!

With the Ghostbusters III news and the release of Yo, Dracula!, Team Mamo has a look at the major studios' race to construct their own Marvel-style megafranchises - with widely varying odds of success.

It's finally time to close up the summer box office contest for 2014! Congratulations to our winner, Philip Poirot, for pantsing the rest of us on one of the hardest-to-call summers we've ever seen. We recap what happened from the back of a speeding car.

As moviegoing continues to die and digital content takes over, we look at how Fox's Gotham is getting it wrong, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (may be) getting it right, and Netflix is getting us all headed towards the future with its Crouching Tiger 2 deal. Plus, the velvet funnel.

The Horror! The Horror! Our intrepid horrornaut Matt Price returns from his year-long mission into scary movies with news to report about everything from Oculus to Martyrs.

Mamo closes up the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival with talk of our favourite films, the Audience Choice winners, and the noticeable movements of the year - plus, hairy boobs.

Does TIFF have a gala problem? We look at the festival's changing relationship with red carpet premieres and superstar filmmakers as Team Mamo charts a weirder course through international filmmaking waters...