Thanks, Academy!
55 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsCarina Magyar grabs a friend and makes them watch a random Best Picture winner until she's finally seen all 90 (and counting). The podcast began when Carina realized she had only seen 12 Best Picture winners ever, and most of those were the obvious blockbuster recent ones, despite being a lifelong cinephile. Each episode has a different guest trying to guess what the movie will be like ahead of time, watching the flick with Carina, then breaking down what they just saw from a first-timers' perspective. We're all comedians, so expect irreverent takes on film history's most "important" pictures. And thanks a lot, Academy.
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Episodes
West Side Story with Chris Cubas
June 19, 2018 11:31 - 34 minutes - 36.7 MBThis is easily the most famous and beloved movie we've tackled so far, and it's great! The songs are amazing, the costumes are beautiful, the dancing is quirky and fun, and the plot is ... well. Half of it is great, and surprisingly timely. Chris Cubas (Canceled) and I really enjoyed the Sharks vs Jets plotline and characters. The other half is a limp and hasty romance that's modeled on the dumber aspects of Romeo & Juliet with none of the redeeming qualities of Shakespeare's irony-laden Twil...
Around the World in 80 Days with Melody Shifflet
June 12, 2018 11:32 - 39 minutes - 41.7 MBThe only reason this movie is remembered at all is the Disney remake from 2004 starring Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan -- and that movie was a huge flop. Based on a Jules Verne story, this film is adapted to be 1,000% more British, with a wealthy eccentric and miniature sidekick "racing" around the world at a snail's pace to settle a pointless bet with a drawing room full of loathsome bankers. David Niven and some circus performer named Cantinflas (an enormously popular Mexican film star and ma...
You Can't Take It With You with Ralph Hardesty
June 05, 2018 11:30 - 37 minutes - 41.5 MBEvery once in a while, the Academy really gets it right. This Frank Capra movie is waaaay less famous than some of his other, schmaltzier efforts like It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Arsenic and Old Lace, but in my opinion it tops them all with a madcap style that will be recognizable to fans of Frasier as "screwball play gets adapted as blunt social commentary plus a little sex." What elevates this above the rest is the performance of -- not Jimmy Stewart or Lionel B...
Out of Africa with Ky Krebs
May 29, 2018 13:30 - 42 minutes - 46.4 MBKy Krebs and I were all ready to bless the rains down in Africa until this movie bored us nearly to death with its endless picnic sequences and abominably tone-deaf Colonizers. There's simply no way to watch this earnestly in a post-Black Panther world, so we chose to moan and groan and yell at the screen for ... 2 hours and 40 minutes? It was too much. Enjoy the increasingly nasty take-down after the movie and please check out Ky's new album on iTunes (it's self-titled) or his podcast Extra ...
Midnight Cowboy with Katie Pengra
May 22, 2018 13:31 - 33 minutes - 35 MBI couldn't have asked for a better / worse choice to start the show with. The illustrious Katie Pengra -- who co-hosts a killer Oscar party every year in Austin at Haymaker with her husband -- graciously agrees to sit her pregnant butt down for this trippy and grim journey through a whole lotta nothing. The movie is famous for 1) a Dustin Hoffman line, 2) being an X-rated Best Picture winner ... for a while (it's now officially R), and 3) supposedly lots of sex. There's isn't that much sex. T...
Rebecca, with ... nobody!
May 08, 2018 04:57 - 26 minutes - 44.2 MBA pilot episode in which I ramble a bit about what the podcast will be about, watch one of my favorite old movies while drinking beer and eating potato chips, then try to explain why I always root for the "bad" guys in this one. A great undiscovered treasure of queer cinema (I think), and full of some truly wicked women (in a good way). This is a half-sized episode and my allergies made me talk weird so ... maybe don't listen? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.