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Melania (2026) — "Here we go again."

Sometimes even we don't know why we do the things we do, but this time around it's because we have to do our due diligence as film critics and take a bullet for you, the listener. Instead of rewatching Vice or W., we subjected ourselves to Melania, Brett Ratner's film following Melania Trump through the 20 days before Donald Trump's second inauguration, which Amazon MGM Studios licensed for a reported $40 million. That totally wasn't a bribe to the Trump family, because if it were, it would essentially be light propaganda, right? Right.

Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, digs into…

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