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S03E10 - In The Bedroom (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - October 17, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 10, we are talking about the second Best Picture Nominee this season, Todd Field's In The Bedroom. Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the...
S03E09 - The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - October 10, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 9, we are talking about Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) had three children and then they...
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 73 and 74- Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Cinema Cemetery - October 09, 2022 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt's been a long break but Cinema Cemetery is back! Join us this time for a Russell Crowe double-feature as we start the 2000s with a look at Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. Two films of completely different styles and diverse legacies, we finally begin the 21st century. Joined this week by sp...
S03E08 - Donnie Darko (2001) w. Tim Plamondon
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - October 03, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 8, we are joined by friend of the show Tim Plamondon to talk about Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. In a funny, moving and distinctly mind-bending journey through sub...
Chapter 8 - Crossing the Pond
According to Oscar - September 30, 2022 10:30 - 25 minutesThis episode was written using the following references: Frank Nugent, “War’s Double-Entry”, New York Times, 17th September 1939, section A, p. 137 Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies [New York: Random House, 1975], p. 253 University of California Televisio...
S03E07 - Shrek (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - September 26, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 7, we are talking about Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson's Shrek. Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers) whose precious s...
S02E06 - Ghost World (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - September 19, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 6, we are talking about Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World. The story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high...
S03E06 - Ghost World (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - September 19, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 6, we are talking about Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World. The story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high...
S03E05 - Gosford Park (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - September 12, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 5, we are talking about the first Best Picture Nominee this season, Robert Altman's Gosford Park. Robert Altman, one of America's most distinctive filmmakers, jour...
S03E04 - Spy Kids (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - September 05, 2022 06:00 - 36 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 4, we are talking about Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids. Two young kids become spies in attempt to save their parents, who are ex-spies, from an evil mastermind. Armed...
S03E03 - Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - August 29, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 3, we are talking about Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven. Dapper Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is a man of action. Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New J...
S03E02 - Memento (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - August 22, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 2, we are talking about Christopher Nolan's Memento. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of loc...
S03E01 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - August 15, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For the first episode of Season 3, we are talking about Chris Columbus's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or Sorcerer's Stone). Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling...
Platoon (1986)
Rewatching Oscar - August 13, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHere is a movie that is so powerful and so devastating to watch that it haunts for days after you see it. Jack has seen this film several times and had to endure another screening so he could share his thoughts with all the cinefiles out there. Platoon is one of the great war films ever made. ...
S02E26 - Finale: 87th Academy Awards (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - August 08, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutesWelcome to the Season 2 Finale of Snubs & Dubs! This episode wraps up the 87th Academy Awards and the films of 2014, and finally answers the question: Did Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) deserve to win Best Picture? TIMECODES: 00:25 - Intro 01:13 - ...
S02 Bonus Episode 3 - Left Behind (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - August 05, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For the second bonus episode of Season 2, we are talking about Vic Armstrong's adaptation of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins' book, Left Behind. The entire planet is thrown int...
S02E25 - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - August 01, 2022 06:00 - 36 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 25, we are finally talking about the winner of Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance...
Chapter 7 - Propaganda Worth a Hundred Battleships
According to Oscar - July 31, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutesThis episode was written using the following references: Leaving Rosebud, Leaving the Valley: Vestiges of Childhood in Two Classic Films from 1941. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Ray Merlock. The Journal of American Culture, Volume 29 Number 3, September 2006 Harris, M. (2014). Five Came Back: A St...
S02E24 - Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - July 25, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 24, we are talking about Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow (Live. Die. Repeat.). When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is ...
S02E23 - How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - July 18, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 23, we are talking about Dean DeBlois and Tom Owen's How To Train Your Dragon 2. Five years have passed since Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and Toothless united the dragons...
S02E22 - Whiplash (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - July 11, 2022 06:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 22, we are talking about the last Best Picture nominee of the season, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash. Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, i...
S02E21 - Chef (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - July 04, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 21, we are talking about Jon Favreau's Chef. After a controlling owner (Dustin Hoffman) pushes him too far, chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) quits his position at a p...
S02E20 - Under The Skin (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - June 27, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 20, we are talking about Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin. Disguising herself as a human female, an extraterrestrial (Scarlett Johansson) drives around Scotland and...
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Rewatching Oscar - June 24, 2022 20:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis film may be 75 years old, but the topic of antisemitism still resonates today. Daryl F. Zanuck brought to the screen a story about a writer who goes undercover as a Jew to find out what it's like to live a life where you are hated for the reason of your religion. Listen to Jack's take on ...
S02E19 - The Theory of Everything (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - June 20, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 19, we are talking about the next Best Picture nominee of the season, James Marsh's The Theory of Everything. In the 1960s, Cambridge University student and future ...
S02 Bonus Episode 2 - Frank (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - June 17, 2022 06:00 - 29 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For the second bonus episode of Season 2, we are talking about Lenny Abrahamson's Frank. An aspiring musician (Domhnall Gleeson) finds himself way out of his element after he j...
S02E18 - What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - June 13, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 18, we are talking about Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi's What We Do In The Shadows. Vampire housemates (Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh) try to cop...
S02E17 - Snowpiercer (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - June 06, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 17, we are talking about Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer.A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity's last survivors aboard a globe-spanning supertrain. One man (Chris E...
Chapter 6 - A Burst of Colour
According to Oscar - May 31, 2022 10:30 - 16 minutesThis episode was written using the following references: Flamini, R. (1975). Scarlett, Rhett, and a cast of thousands : the filming of ‘Gone With the Wind’. New York: Macmillan. Higgins, S. (2007). Harnessing the Technicolor rainbow : color design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Pres...
S02E16 - Selma (2014)
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - May 30, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutesWelcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 16, we are talking about the next Best Picture nominee of the season, Ava DuVernay's Selma. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, di...
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