00:01 Welcome to Media Mayhem.

00:10 Introducing Peter Rainer.

01:00 Movies in Oscar contention, and potential favorites for best actor and actress.

02:50 Meryl Streep in August: Osage County, and adapting a play for the screen.

05:30 Tom Hanks diverts from his normal everyman routine in Captain Phillips.

08:30 Zero Dark Thirty, and taking into account the politics within a film.

12:30 Rainer’s criticism of Mandela and 12 Years a Slave.

19:00 Rainer’s recommendations for the holiday season, including Her.

22:40 Rainer explains why Gravity must be seen in theatres.

25:30 American Hustle and up and coming movie stars like Jennifer Lawrence.

29:20 The Wolf of Wall Street, and how the length of a film can ruin it.

33:30 The potential that directors have to overdo a creative collaboration with an actor.

35:30 Rainer on In the Bedroom’s accurate portrayal of a killer.

38:20 Rainer praises Alfred Hitchcock.

41:50 Saving Mr. Banks, and should Emma Thompson be nominated for her performance?

44:20 Thanks and goodbye.