Movie of the Year
332 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings["Movie of the Year is on the hunt to find the best film of each and every year, in the only way that matters: brackets. Join Greg, Mike, and Ryan, as they discuss what makes a film matter now vs when it came out. There will be games. There will be drinks. There will be points. There will only be one Movie of the Year. ", "Movie of the Year is on the hunt to find the best film of each and every year, in the only way that matters: brackets. Join Greg, Mike, and Ryan, as they discuss what makes a film matter now vs when it came out. There will be games. There will be drinks. There will be points. There will only be one Movie of the Year."]
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1984 - Once Upon a Time in America (with Keith Phipps!)
April 25, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBMovie of the Year: 1984 Once Upon a Time in America (with Keith Phipps) Can Once Upon in America take the title of our 1984 Movie of the Year? Once Upon a Time in America is a movie of epic scope even though it is the tale of small-time crooks trying to screw each other over to make it out of the gutter. (And one guy lives in Buffalo for like decades.) This contrast is just one of many artfully nestled into one of the harder watching experiences we've had on this show. And we've seen Amer...
1984 - This is Spinal Tap
April 18, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBMovie of the Year: 1984 This Is Spinal Tap Can This Is Spinal Tap rock its way to the title of our 1984 Movie of the Year? This Is Spinal Tap put rock music on the map. Before this movie came out, no one was really sure what to make of this new music genre. Enter Spinal Tap. With hubris, unparalleled talent, and a penchant for dramatically losing drummers, Spinal Tap changed music, and the movie about them, This Is Spinal Tap, put the new band and their wholly original sound into the nati...
1984 - Repo Man
April 11, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBMovie of the Year: 1984 Repo Man Can Repo Man take the title of our 1984 Movie of the Year? In the early 80’s, UCLA film student Alex Cox wanted to move from student films to features. Remaking his student film by the same name, Repo Man would have a budget of 500 grand and be filled with punk rockers. Enter Michael Nesmith, everyone's least favorite Monkee. At the time, Nesmith’s pockets were flush with that sweet liquid paper money, so he, along with universal, decided to turn Repo Man ...
1984 - The Sweet 16
April 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBWe choose our sweet 16; which 16 movies will make our 1984 season? It is time to pick the movies we will be covering in our 1984 season! Yes, it's our sweet 16. Which movies will make up this year? A weary world demands to know. Well, fear not because we are here to deliver to you the movies that will make up the season that will consume the next three months of our lives (and we assume yours; the podcast has been getting some impassioned emails lately). We love movies and we love years, s...
1984 - The Season Begins
March 28, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBMovie of the Year: 1984 A New Season Begins A new season begins, which movie of 1984 will be our Movie of the Year? 1984 is here, and folks, this might be the biggest year of blockbusters we've ever covered. None of us were really very aware in the actual year 1984—we are young, and fit—but the movies of this year would pepper our childhoods like salt, adding flavor and enjoyment to everything we consumed. But were these movies just fast food for the mind? No, along with the blockbusters...
2023 - Best of the Year: Movies
March 21, 2024 12:00 - 2 hours - 129 MBMovie of the Year 2023 Movie of the Year Our 2023 Movie of the Year bracket is here to pick the most filmic moments of 2023! Movies are the books of watching things. A lot of people don't want to watch a movie because, on some level, all movies are about the how we will never escape death and loss. Does that apply to this slate of films? Please allow me to laugh for one hundred years at that question. But there is no time to laugh for 100 years—I would die before I ever finished. And it...
2023 - Best of the Year: TV Dramas
March 14, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBOur 2023 Best TV Drama bracket is here to pick the best dramatic moments of 2023! Drama, aren't we meant to save it for our mamas? But this bracket of brave shows asks the question, "Is that a real question?" No, no it isn't. TV drama is for when you want to put on something that isn't comedy, but you are afraid of movies because they are too much like books. These TV dramas are here to let us know that not all drama has to be smart, well-written, original, entertaining, bracket-worthy, or ...
2023 - Best of the Year: Albums
March 07, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBMovie of the Year 2023 Best Album Our 2023 Best Album bracket is here to pick the best musical moments of 2023! John Album, inventor of the album, was heard to remark one day, "There should be a playlist where all the songs are by one artist, and all songs on this playlist-ish thing should be released at the same time, in a track order of the artists' choosing!" We know, of course, that John Album was driven into the wilds of the Texas panhandle for his beliefs, but no one can doubt he...
2023 - Best of the Year: Horror Films
February 29, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 95.2 MBMovie of the Year 2023 Best Horror Our 2023 Best Horror bracket is here to pick the best scary movie of 2023! Horror movies, are they too scary? Yes, they are too scary and also too awful; however, some people seem to like them. But can watching them ever be enough? No, it is important that we do more than watch them—we must judge them, and having judged them, we must set them to fight against one another. If you had all the baddies in this fighting it out, you would probably have to go...
2023 - Best of the Year: TV Comedy
February 22, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBMovie of the Year 2023 TV Comedy of the Year Our 2023 TV Comedy of the Year show will pick the best TV comedy of the year 2023! Comedy has always been so important to us here at Pop Filter. But we always felt a little sheepish about that because comedy has often been thought of as a garbage genre for trash people. This might be finally turning around though with what a great year for TV comedy 2023 has been. But only one can be our TV comedy of the year, and this show is where we make th...
2023 - Best of the Year: Mixtape
February 15, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBMovie of the Year 2023 Mixtape Our 2023 mixtape contains all the bangers and bops of 2023! Click here to listen to the playlist! A mixtape is a sacred, holy thing. Young guns will call them playlists, but young guns aren't even old enough, or wise enough, to know about the hit film Young Guns. You couldn't make Young Guns today, because of woke, but you could probably reboot it, because no more ideas. But enough about mixtapes; let's get to why we are really here: the tale of adventure...
2023 - Best of the Year: Century of the Year
February 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBMovie of the Year 2023 Century of the Year The 2023 Century of the Year show covers the 100 biggest pop culture moments of 2023! Century of the Year is the only time when we can come together and discuss the year in pop culture. What were the 100 biggest pop culture moments of 2023, and how did they change the world? Pop culture is the most important part of life, and yet we so rarely hear anyone talking about it. It's all war or the latest fascist turn the country is taking. That's Obam...
2023 - Best of the Year: The Preview Show, Part II
February 01, 2024 12:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBMovie of the Year 2023 BOTY Movie Preview Show The 2023 BOTY Movie Preview Show covers all the great movies of 2023! We have talked about the rest, now let's talk about the best: films. It is movietime, folks, and that means we have to call in the big guns—friends of the pod Kate and Nate (no relation)—and start voting movies off the island. No human being can watch sixteen movies, and so we have to do the painful act of cutting eight loose right away. Luckily, we are good friends, so t...
2023 - Best of the Year: The Preview Show
January 25, 2024 12:00 - 2 hours - 161 MBThe 2023 BOTY Preview Show covers all of our upcoming Best of the Year episodes! The year 2023 has drawn to a close. But before we can say goodbye to it forever, we need to decide what were the best media of the this remarkable year. However, 16 movies, 16 TV dramas, 16 TV comedies, 16 albums, 55 burgers, and 55 fries is way too much for us to comment on meaningfully with our trademark penerative wits. So we are giving ourselves an opportunity to cut those 16 down to a more manageable 8 ea...
2023 - Oscar Draft
January 18, 2024 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBIn the 2024 Oscar Draft, we draft the movies of 2023 to see who can get the most Oscar nominations! We have seen the movies of 2023. Now, it is time to make our picks for which we think will get the most Oscar nominations. Not wins here, people: nominations. A blockbuster movie like Barbie or Oppenheimer is liable to get upwards of ten noms. That's the kind of movie you want to pick in a draft like this. Each panelist will have four rounds to pick their Oscar nomination squad, but here's th...
1973 - The Finale, Part III
January 11, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Finale Part Three On the 1973 Finale Part Three we we are down to four movies, one of which is our 1973 Movie of the Year! By the time you have finished listening to 1973 Finale Part Three, you will know 1973's Movie of the Year. 1973 was a fine year at the movies. Maybe it's not the powerhouse we anticipated. But looking at the remaining movies—Coffy, Don't Look Now, Mean Streets, and The Exorcist—it's clear that, no matter which wins, a titan of film is surely be...
1973 - The Finale, Part II
January 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Finale Part Two On the 1973 Finale Part Two we continue to whittle down our sixteen-movie bracket, closing in on our 1973 Movie of the Year! It all comes down to almost this, but then just a little bit more after this. A lot of times the second part of a trilogy is the best part. Think about it: Empire Strikes Back, The Last Jedi, Attack of the—uh, Godfather II. Last week saw eight movies become four, and this week we see that happen once again. And, of course, ou...
1973 - The Finale, Part I
December 28, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBOn the 1973 Finale Part One we start to whittle down our sixteen-movie bracket, closing in on our 1973 Movie of the Year! It is the beginning of the end of our 1973 season of Movie of the Year. We have watched the movies. We have participated in the science. Ryan and Mike did a lot of screaming. All that is left to us to do is begin to make these pieces of art square off against each other, Gladiator (2000). But it's not all just carnage on this one: we are also giving out our coveted Moot...
1973 - American Graffiti
December 21, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBThis week we discuss American Graffiti! Can this movie drive its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Cars, they mean so much to us here in America. Americans love car so much that some have even taken to living in them. There are many images that scream America: Frat Boys drunk chanting USA; a gun being fired into the air after a sporting event win or loss; or simply a small child without healthcare coverage. but perhaps nothing Bellows America quite like the automobile. in a way it's a sha...
1973 - Coffy
December 14, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 87 MBThis week we discuss Coffy! Can this movie blast its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Coffy is 91 minutes long…so there you go folks, our 1973 Movie of the Year, for being nearly the conically perfect runtime. We can just run the award over to Ms. Grier’s house any time. Literally anytime. Coffy is a simple nurse until her little sister is preyed upon by local drug-selling enthusiasts. Seeking revenge, she finds she has a knack for sort of disassociating and entering a dreamlike state wh...
1973 - Don't Look Now
December 07, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Don't Look Now This week we discuss Don't Look Now! Can this movie chase its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? After losing their daughter Christine to an accidental drowning, Laura and John Baxter relocate to Venice, Italy so he can restore an old, and somehow fake(??), church. But while there, they encounter a couple of odd sisters, one of who seems to have the gift of second sight. They tell Laura that the late Christine is still with them and this news hits th...
1973 - Enter the Dragon
November 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Enter the Dragon This week we discuss Enter the Dragon! Can this movie fight its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Enter the Dragon follows Lee, played by Bruce Lee, a shaolin monk who must leave the monastery and make his way to an island with no pistols and no guns. He must enter a fighting tournament to reclaim the honor of his family and his temple, and he has to do all this for under a million bucks. He manages to win the tournament and defeat all opponents,...
1973 - Action Figure Draft, Pt. 2
November 23, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Action Figure Draft, Pt 2 The Taste Buds finish up their draft of the action figures of 1973! And then it's time to fight! It's that time again. That time of the year where we forget all of the depth and subtlety that is used to tell the stories of our favorite 1973 characters, and instead focus on one thing: how they're going to kick your ass. Join your host Greg, along with his little buddy panelists Ryan and Taylor, as they take turns drafting what they think wo...
1973 - Action Figure Draft, Pt. 1
November 16, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Action Figure Draft, Pt 1 Get the toy boxes out, because we're having an all-out action figure war on Movie of the Year! It's that time again. That time of the year where we forget all of the depth and subtlety that is used to tell the stories of our favorite 1973 characters, and instead focus on one thing: how they're going to kick your ass. Join your host Greg, along with his little buddy panelists Ryan and Taylor, as they take turns drafting what they think woul...
1973 - The Harder They Come
November 09, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 The Harder They Come This week we discuss The Harder They Come! Can this movie play its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Set in Jamaica, The Harder They Come is a drama about an aspiring singer, Ivan, desperate for fame who, disillusioned by corruption in every part of daily life, becomes involved in some reefer madness. Unfortunately, that trade is controlled by the same group of jerks that run everything else in this movie and really the world. It’s just alwa...
1973 - The Exorcist
October 31, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 The Exorcist This week we discuss The Exorcist! Is this movie diabolical enough to be our 1973 Movie of the Year? The Exorcist is our biggest 1973 movie. It was the most popular then; it’s the most popular now; it made the most money; it got hella noms; and it has a lasting cultural impact that is as big if not bigger than any other movie we have covered on this show, let alone in the sleepy little year 1973 turned out to be. It’s a fun little romp about growing u...
1973 - The Last Detail
October 26, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 The Last Detail This week we discuss The Last Detail! Can we swear this is our 1973 Movie of the Year? The Last Detail is a movie about three sailors, who are on their way to deliver one of the trio to jail. But thanks to some clever thinking ahead, they are able to secure a little time for a boys trip! Now we know here at Pop Filter that nothing is more sacred than a boys trip. Thankfully, The Last Detail is a movie that understands the sanctity of dudes being du...
1973 - Last Tango in Paris
October 19, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Last Tango in Paris This week we discuss The Last Tango in Paris! Can a movie this uncomfortable to talk about be our Movie of the Year? Last Tango in Paris is the story of Paul, an extremely recently widowed man whose relationship with his wife was complicated, and Jeanne, a 19 year old who comes to find herself completely dominated and enthralled by him. Meeting by chance one day, they enter into a sexual relationship in which their first encounters are totally a...
1973 - The Long Goodbye
October 12, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 90 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 The Long Goodbye This week we discuss The Long Goodbye! Can this film solve the case of what should be our Movie of the Year? Director Robert Altman said he wanted Phillip Marlowe to wake up in the 1970’s, a man out of time, and just wander through the twists and turns of The Long Goodbye. Eliot Gould seems to have taken this to heart because he crafted the wanderen-est performance in the history of Hollywood. We start with him waking up at 3AM and heading to his...
1973 - Mean Streets
October 05, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Mean Streets This week we discuss Mean Streets! Are these mean streets tough enough to become our Movie of the Year? Mean Streets is principally about three characters. We have Michael—the wanna-be gangster who is trying to will himself to fit into a world of crime that he doesn’t seem ready for yet, what with getting himself easily scammed and perpetually disrespected. Then there is Johnny Boy who we first see blowing up a mailbox for absolutely no reason. We quic...
1973 - Paper Moon
September 28, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Paper Moon This week we discuss Paper Moon! Can it rise high enough to become our Movie of the Year? Paper Moon is a fun little romp about a shady guy and his daughter, seamlessly played by a shady guy and enemy of the show, Ryan O’Neal, and his real-life 10-year-old daughter, Tatum O’Neal, with whom he has always had a strained relationship. We spend most of the show getting into the why’s, the no, really why’s, and the man, but really, like why’s of this decision...
1973 - Robin Hood
September 21, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 76 MBThis week we discuss Robin Hood! Can it steal the gold and become our Movie of the Year? Robin Hood is about a fox everyone wants to get with even though he hasn’t even kissed his own girlfriend. But here’s something cool about him: he shoots arrows real good and takes money from the rich to give to the poor by reusing old footage and fleshing out the runtime with a series of looping chase scenes. With half the characters being from England and half being from the American south, Robin hoo...
1973 - Serpico
September 14, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Serpico This week we discuss Serpico! Can it take the cash and become our Movie of the Year? Serpico asks the question, what if it turned out that cops weren't always the good guys? Now, try to stay with me because this is probably going to blow your mind a little bit, but the cops in Serpico aren’t concerned with making the world a better place or with protecting the little guy (pause here to allow the reader to go, "Say what?" and scratch their noggin). Instead, ...
1973 - Sisters
September 07, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 98.3 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Sisters This week we discuss Sisters! Is this movie bonkers enough to become our Movie of the Year? Sisters is many things: creepy, funny, campy, doing it for themselves. It follows the struggle of two women to make it in this wacky world. One, Grace Collier, is an intrepid reporter for the Staten Island Panorama, trying to get a scoop, the other is model and aspiring actress Danielle Brenton, who is trying to have it all while not having all her marbles. After a ...
1973 - Mixtape, Pt. 2
August 31, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Mixtape, Pt. 2 The Taste Buds finish up their epic 1973 playlist! When we last left our Taste Bud Triumvirate, they were butt-deep in the music of 1973. Now it's time to get all of the way deep. Join Greg, Ryan, and Taylor as they continue to create their mixtape live on the air. Ryan has the closing song, and is waiting for his chance to end the whole thing. Will his song be stolen and used earlier in the mixtape? Will Taylor attempt to get another Steely Dan son...
1973 - Mixtape, Pt. I
August 24, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Mixtape, Pt. 1 The Taste Buds begin their journey to put together the greatest playlist in the history of 1973! It's time to take a break from all of these MOVIES and start talking about some music! Join Greg, Ryan, and Taylor as they try to put together the perfect playlist, live on air. Be there as they take turns picking songs, and arranging the order. Will this be a rockin and rollin good time, or will the threesome make it a total bummer and terrible to listen...
1973 - The Sting
August 17, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBThis week we discuss The Sting! Does this con-man mix-em-up have enough beneath the surface to become our Movie of the Year?
1973 - Westworld
August 10, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Westworld This week we discuss Westworld! Does this sci-fi/western have enough firepower to become our Movie of the Year? Westworld is a lot of things: cool, well-known, probably about 45 minutes too long. It tells the story of the eponymous Westworld (go to heck Romanworld and Medievalworld) a place for adults to put on costumes and play cowboy with their friends. Maybe intercourse a few robo-ladies together like pals. As the Go-Go’s tell us: Vacation, all I ever...
1973 - The Beginning, Part II
August 03, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Introduction Part 2 In our 1973 Introduction Part 2 we pick the 16 movies that will make up our season bracket! By the time you are done listening to this episode, you will know the sixteen movies that will make up our 1973 season. Hidden among those movies, still unknown to all of humanity, is the actual 1973 Movie of the Year itself! It's hard to believe that one day we will feel exhausted with the effort of completing this season, because right now it is full of...
1973 - The Beginning
July 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBMovie of the Year: 1973 Introduction Part 1 What wonders and horrors will the 1973 Introduction Part 1 unleash on our delicate brains? Wow, 1973. Let me start by saying, congratulations. And, you're welcome. And, we are so sorry. 1973 was 50 years ago y'all, and it's the ancientiest season we've ever done. Much has changed since these dimly remembered times. Unfortunately, when you look back 50 years, half the stuff has changed, but it's actually changed for the better and then back for t...
2002 - Catch Me If You Can
July 20, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 Catch Me If You Can Can Catch Me If You Can con its way to our 2002 Movie of the Year? Catch Me If You Can is a Steven Spielberg joint, so you know we are going to get rowdy on this one. Steve Spiels has meant so much to the show. An early Hall of Fame inductee, one of the most important voices from our childhood, and a talented filmmaker to boot, this guy has got it all goin on as far as we are concerned. But does that mean this particular movie, Catch Me If You C...
2002 - The Finale, Pt. 3
July 13, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part Three It is time to finish picking 2002's Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part Three! We work really hard on each of the seasons of this show. We do it because it means a lot to us and because that is what the movies deserve. The 2002 season was even more work than we usually do—it was intense. Yet, here we are, at the end of it, and it's hard not to be just a little sad. 2002 was a bonkers year and the movies are full of a sense of overwrought pri...
2002 - The Finale, Pt. 2
July 06, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part Two It is time to continue picking 2002's Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part Two! As we discussed last time, fifteen great movies (and, yes, one stinkeroo) made their way into the sweet sixteen. And now it is time to take that number DOWN. To an even LOWER NUMBER. There are a lot to pick from, so you figure it out. Lookin' at you, eight; feels like you're on deck. Maybe Bourne Identity will do some of his cool spy stuff and make his way to the ...
2002 - The Finale, Pt. 1
June 29, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 The Finale, Pt. 1 It is time to start picking 2002's Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part One! It seems like just yesterday we started the 2002 season, but as they say: time flies when your castin' pods. This year we embraced just how many movies there are in any given year. Because there are so many, we opened up our brackets (and our hearts) to 16 movies. I know what you are thinking, you must have just opened up the floodgates and invited all the stinkeroo...
2002 - Morvern Callar
June 22, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 Morvern Callar Is Morvern Callar too obvious a choice to become 2002 Movie of the Year? Stop any yahoo on the street and ask them to bleat out a movie from 2002 and the first one that is going to spring into 90% of their brains is Morvern Callar. MorvernMania was everywhere is 2002, and if you don't remember that, don't let on because it's deeply strange and it might indicate that you are secretly a weirdo. In this episode we really get into what makes the titular...
2002 - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
June 15, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Can The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers unite all our panelists and become 2002 Movie of the Year? The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a movie that asks, "What if our enemies are actually so bad that we can do whatever we want to them and even treat it like a little game?" We probe what director Peter Jackson brought to this project that only he could before we delve into the difficulties of telling the second part of a thre...
2002 - 25th Hour
June 08, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 25th Hour Can 25th Hour capture the title of our 2002 Movie of the Year? 25th Hour may be a bit of a forgotten gem of 2002, but it is a gem nonetheless. With Rosario Dawson, Edward Norton, Philip Seymore Hoffman, and Barry "That's-Right-It's-Me" Pepper, the movie has star power to burn. And when your motion picture is directed by one Mr. Spike Lee, you are going to get the Taste Buds' attention. We focus on both Lee and Norton in this episode, giving each a segmen...
2002 - Chicago
June 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 Chicago Can Chicago sing, dance, shoot, and prance its way to our 2002 Movie of the Year? This week our movie is 2002's musical sensation, Chicago, a movie that has a little something for everyone. Whether your thing is sexy ladies, violent outbursts, or Richard Gere, Chicago has got you covered. But does it have enough about it that is 2002 enough to take down film's greatest achievement? Oh brother do we get into it, as well as discussing if casting stars was a b...
1991 - Action Figure Draft (Lost Episode)
May 25, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBMovie of the Year: 1991 1991 Action Figure Draft What can the action figures of 1991 teach us about the Avengers of 1991? Our 1991 Action Figure/Avengers Draft decides! We were recently cleaning out the PopFilter Vault, and look what we found! An unaired episode from our 1991 season--enjoy! Drafting—it's what separates us from the animals. Well, except for the West African Drafting Camel. It's OK, go look it up: they're really quite cute. Back? OK! When we're compulsively drafting thing...
2002 - Adaptation.
May 18, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBMovie of the Year: 2002 Adaptation. Does Adaptation. have the flexibility to be our 2002 Movie of the Year? After years of struggling to adapt Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief into a movie, Charlie Kaufmann wrote himself and his fictional twin Donald into the movie and made it about his struggles with adapting the book. He only told his friend Spike Jonez his new direction, and was sure he would be done with the industry but didn’t see another way out. The result is Adaptation, a meditatio...