Summer movie preview

By Scott Pukos, Megan Mack, Veronica Volk, Julie Williams

Published June 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM EDT

Four people wearing headphones sit at a table in a radio talk studio: a man front left has short brown hair and is wearing a blue t-shirt, grey shorts and black shoes; a man front right has short brown hair, a brown beard and is wearing glasses, a grey button-down shirt, bright pink t-shirt, black pants and white sneakers; a woman back left has short dark hair and is wearing glasses and a black t-shirt; a man back right has short grey hair, a grey beard and is wearing glasses and a white button-down shirt.

1 of 2 — (foreground) Matt Passantino, (background) Jackie McGriff and Jared Case with guest host Scott Pukos on "Connections"

(foreground) Matt Passantino, (background) Jackie McGriff and Jared Case with guest host Scott Pukos on "Connections" on Monday, June 23, 2025

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A smiling woman with pink hair is wearing pink glasses, a hat with rainbow flowers, denim overalls and a black shirt with rainbow sleeves.

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Meghan Murphy

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A smiling man with glasses,short brown hair and a beard and wearing a light grey open button down shirt and dark grey t-shirt sits in front of a microphone at a table in a radio talk studio. — Scott Pukos guest hosting "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Friday, August 2, 2024

Hollywood loves sequels and remakes. And here they come: "Jurassic World Rebirth;" "M3GAN 2.0;" "28 Years Later;" "Superman;" "Happy Gilmore;" "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

Will our panel of cinephiles go for nostalgia, or do they want something new? What’s The Little bringing to screens?

Guest host Scott Pukos and fellow film fanatics tell us what's hot and what's not this summer.

Our guests:

Jared Case, curator of film exhibitions for the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum
Jackie McGriff, photographer, founder, director, and co-producer for the Our Voices project
Meghan Murphy, social media manager and storyteller for the Anomaly Film Festival
Matt Passantino, film critic and writer for CITY Magazine and member of the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA)

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