10 guests?! That’s so 2026! Now, 15 guests?! That’s… so, much later in 2026. Yes, that works.

Scene Before’s original web series, Movie Requests, has bumped its guest count from 10 to 15!

If you watched my most recent episode of Movie Requests, featuring “Clerks” star Brian O’Halloran, you may have noticed I put a new poster in at the end of the video, which features 5 unrevealed guests! For those who missed the episode, you are just tuning into the big news! Surprise!

It has been more than half a year ago since I first announced what was then titled Celebrity Movie Requests. To paraphrase “The Social Network,” I told myself to drop the “Celebrity,” it’s cleaner. So far, the series has introduced 10 guests who will be shown through individual episodes in the coming months. Five of those guests have been featured thus far, and I am having a blast sharing their film tastes with you, and seeing how much they line up with my own. The videos have been shared on this blog, as well as my personal YouTube channel, which you should most definitely subscribe to.

I made a commitment in 2025 that for Scene Before’s 10th Anniversary, I would ask 10 people what movies they would recommend, deliver those recommendations to you via short prerecorded clips, watch said recommendations, review them, and see if our tastes match. I am proud to say thus far, every movie that I watched for this series, I have enjoyed. With 5 guests down, that means I am halfway through the list and have 5 more guests to go. That would be true. Except I thought, why not add 5 more?…

10 guests for the 10th anniversary? That’s too predictable! Scene Before is not about doing what is expected of me. If that happened to be the case, I would have given “Bugonia” a positive review. I mean no offense to anyone who worked on the film. There is definitely effort put into it, but holy crap, I left the auditorium with a headache…

Back to business! I am adding 5 more guests who have agreed to be a part of this series. Much like the first 10 guests, I met all of these individuals in person, pitched the series to them, and each one agreed to be in a short video documenting their suggestion.

I am not going to share the names of the guests right now. If you look at the poster, you will notice that their identities are hidden, and I am referring to them by various titles… They include…

“An Asgardian…”

“A Ring-Bearer…”

“A Rose…”

“A Ruiner…”

And “A Tenderloin…”

Those are your hints! If you would like to make any guesses, please feel free to leave your comments below! More information on these guests will be revealed soon. For the record, “Movie Requests” is likely going to remain a limited series at this time. When I pitched this series to each person who agreed to join, I presented the list of movies that were already picked by previous guests. If I did a second season or kept this going to 20, 30, or even a hundred guests, it would be somewhat tough for those on the other end to come up with recommendations that do not match somebody else’s.

That is all for this announcement! I want to thank everyone who is continuing to view Scene Before 10 years later, and I hope you are all enjoying Movie Requests as much as I enjoy making it.

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