A podcast about movies the awards forgot
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410 – Midsommar
Happy Halloween! Quickly following up his paradigm-shifting Hereditary, Ari Aster took to Sweden for Midsommar. The film stars Florence Pugh as a young woman who follows her boyfri…
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409 – Romance and Cigarettes
Post-Chicago, just about any movie musical was fodder for awards buzz, especially if they boasted a cast as stacked as Romance and Cigarettes. A jukebox musical from the mind of Jo…
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408 – The Russia House
In the years after his Oscar win for The Untouchables, Sean Connery remained a major movie star and box office draw. The latter proved untrue in 1990 when The Russia House fizzled…
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407 – Destroyer
In 2018, we were rooting for the comeback of director Karyn Kusama, emerging with the promising crime thriller Destroyer. Centering on Nicole Kidman playing against type as a grizz…
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406 – Arsenic and Old Lace (with Emily St. James!)
We have writer Emily St. James back with us this week, so naturally we’re breaking our own record for oldest film discussed on the show (after her episode on Moby Dick)! Based on t…
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2026 TIFF Recap!!
We’re back home from our latest trip to the Toronto International Film Festival! And as always, we’re offering you a buffet of our reactions from a week’s worth of movies that will…
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405 – She Said
After their 2017 exposé of the horrors Harvey Weinstein inflicted upon women for decades, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey detailed their process in their 2019 book She Said. Post-pand…
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404 – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a musical like no other. A Off-Broadway smash in 1998 from creators John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask…
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403 – The Homesman (with Richard Lawson!)
We welcome back Richard Lawson this week to discuss Tommy Lee Jones’s final (to date!) directorial effort, 2014’s The Homesman. Led by Hilary Swank, the film follows a 19th century…
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402 – The Return
As The Odyssey continues to prove to be a career peak for Christopher Nolan and possible return to the Oscar stage, we’re looking back at a very different take on Homer’s epic poem…
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401 – Playing By Heart
Playing by Heart (1998) Directed by Willard Carroll Shown: Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillippe In the bygone moviegoing trend of “interconnected stories of Angelenos,” this week’s episo…
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400 – Town and Country
It’s our 400th episode this week, so we had to go big. What could be more fitting than a notorious bomb with major star pedigree?! No stranger to misfires, Warren Beatty neverthele…
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399 – Lovely And Amazing (with Jeff Hiller!)
Emmy winner Jeff Hiller joins us this week to talk about one of our beloved Nicole Holofcener’s earliest films. Lovely and Amazing follows a Los Angeles family of women burdened by…
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398 – Short Term 12
With Spider-Man: Brand New Day arriving in theatres this week, we’re looking back at director Destin Daniel Cretton’s 2013 debut, Short Term 12. Launched at SXSW and distributed in…
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397 – The Thin Blue Line (w/ Pamela Ribon!)
We welcome back Oscar-nominated My Year of Dicks filmmaker Pamela Ribon this week for [gasp] our very first documentary episode! In 1988, Errol Morris made a documentary hit out of…
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396 – The Stepford Wives (with Nicholas Colia!)
We’re back talking about Nicole Kidman’s post-Oscar years this week and Griffin in Summer filmmaker Nicholas Colia is here to join us! After winning her Oscar for The Hours, each o…
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395 – Insomnia
After becoming a critical and arthouse sensation with Memento, Christopher Nolan leaped to studio filmmaking with American remake Insomnia. The film (based on the 1997 Norwegian fi…
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394 – Queer (with Mitchell Beaupre!)
Letterboxd head of editorial Mitchell Beaupre returns to us this week to close out Pride month with one of Luca Guadagnino’s most divisive films. In 2024, with audiences still unde…
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393 – C’Mon C’Mon
On deck this week is a sentimental recent fav, Mike Mills’ beautiful black-and-white tribute to modern day youngsters and the state of mind that is “uncle.” C’Mon C’Mon casts Joaqu…
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392 – Robin Hood (2010)
We’re back to discussing the filmography of director Ridley Scott this week, though this episode was recorded… before the news of his Honorary Oscar. Nope, there is also a new riff…