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Only a few months after his film “Poor Things” cleaned up at the Oscars, Yorgos Lanthimos is back with the bizarre, pitch black comedy “Kinds of Kindness.” Nathan Weinbender says it’s an acquired taste, even for fans of the Greek director’s strange work.

Derek Annis reads a poem by Corey Oglesby

Derek Annis reads an original poem

Derek Annis reads a poem by Laura Kasischke

“A Quiet Place: Day One” is a study of one woman’s attempts to decide her own fate in a dystopian setting, Dan Webster says in his review.

Linda Josephson reads a poem by Rose Shiffman

Linda Josephson reads a poem by Mark Scantlebury

Join our benighted contestant as he listens to three scenarios to determine whether their outcomes were caused by Coincidence, Correlation, or Climate Change!

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two movies that take their audiences on a virtual road trip through a maze of emotions—the latest from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, titled “Trap,” and the Oscar-nominated animated film from 2023, “Robot Dreams.”

You never know what you’re going to get with M. Night Shyamalan. The prolific writer-director is back with “Trap,” a goofy potboiler that Nathan Weinbender says starts out with a bang but peters out before it’s done.