Episode 62: THE APARTMENT Be a mensch and listen in to this week's podcast as we dissect Billy Wilder's 1960 classic, The Apartment. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star as a couple of New Yorkers navigating romantic and office politics. It ranks here as number 8 on our countdown.* Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not. That ball is in your court. Come back next week for the number seven contender, Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront from 1954. *What is this list? We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description ..read more

Episode 61: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST For this week's podcast we watched the 1975 classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Directed by Milos Foreman, this adaptation of Ken Kesey's highly regarded novel stars Jack Nicholson as Randle (yes, that's how it's spelled) McMurphy. In one of his most iconic roles, Nicholson's antiestablishment beatnik is sent to a mental health facility to assess his competency to serve his prison sentence. He clashes with the facility's rigid warden, Nurse Ratched, played here by Louise Rainer. Brad Douriff, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Lloyd pla ..read more

Episode 60: PARASITE Listen in this week as break into the top ten with the 2019 South Korean film Parasite. It's our second straight movie about the conflict between rich and poor, but that's probably the extent of its similarities to It Happened One Night. Well, that and the fact that they're both great. Song Kang Ho plays the head of a very poor family in Seoul. Their prospects begin to turn around as they infiltrate a very wealthy household one-by-one. And then things take a turn. Parasite was the first and so far only non-English language film to win Best Picture. It ranks #10 on our coun ..read more

Episode 59: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Come hitch a ride with us as we revisit Frank Capra's classic screwball comedy, It Happened One Night. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert star in this rich mouse/poor mouse comic road movie from the early sound era. It beat out eleven other nominees to win the Best Picture prize for 1934 and ranks #11 on our countdown.* Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not. That ball is in your court. Come back next week as we jump ahead more than eighty years for Bong Joon Ho's 2019 dark comedy Parasite. *W ..read more

Episode 58: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES We journey back to the end of the Second World War for this week's podcast. Frederic March, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell star as three service men returning home from war in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. The men confront their own wounds as well as the changes in a society that had moved along without them. The classic drama also features Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy, Cathy O'Donnell and Hoagie Carmichael. Break out your hankies and join us (but see the movie first!). The Best Years of Our Lives won the Best Picture prize for 1946 and rank ..read more

Episode 57: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS This week we delve into Jonathan Demme's 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs. Jodie Foster plays an FBI student tasks with interviewing the infamous serial killer Hannibal the Cannibal Lector, in the hopes of gathering clues to help find an at-large killer. Lector is, of course, played by Anthony Hopkins in perhaps his most iconic role. Not for the faint of heart, The Silence of the Lambs won the Best Picture prize and ranks #13 on our countdown.* Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not ..read more

Episode 55: ANNIE HALL This week's episode takes us to New York City in the mid-Seventies. Woody Allen wrote, directed and starred in this semiautobiographical comedy about a comedian reflecting on his recently defunct romance with a quirky aspiring singer. Allen plays the lead, Alvy Singer, and Diane Keaton gives a career-defining performance in the title role. This is the movie that beat Star Wars for the 1977 Best Picture prize, and it ranks #15 on our countdown.* Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not. That ball is in yo ..read more

Episode 54: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI Take a trip with us to Southeast Asia in the midst of World War II, as a British Colonel faces off against his Japanese captor in DAvid Lean's adventure epic The Bridge on the River Kwai. Realesed in 1957, the film tells the story of Col. Nicholson and Col. Saito, two head strong men who butt heads as the British Prisoners of War are forced to build a rail bridge over the Kwai River. There's also an American, Shears, who reluctantly joins a commando squad to hike through the jungle to blow up the bridge. Starring Alec Guiness, William Holden, and Sessue ..read more

Episode 53: MOONLIGHT I'm going to refrain from making "La La Land-no oops-Moonlight" jokes in the episode description. There's plenty of that silliness in the episode. If you don't know what that means, just listen in and we'll tell you all about it. Aside from all the talk of Oscarcast goofs, we do actually get into a pretty in depth discussion on this very serious, very personal drama, following a young boy becoming a man in an impoverished section of Miami. Moonlight shocked the industry by winning the Best Picture Academy Award (TM) for 2016. It ranks #17 on our countdown.* Come back ag ..read more

Episode 52: UNFORGIVEN We're delving into Unforgiven this week. Clint Eastwood's 1992 revisionist Western is about an aging, supposedly reformed gunslinger who mounts his saddle for one last hit job. The film explores vengeance and the consequences of violence. Eastwood is joined by a stellar cast that includes Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Saul Rubinek and Richard Harris. It won four Oscars including Best Picture. Unforgiven ranks #18 on our countdown.* Come back again next week for a discussion on Barry Jenkins' 2016 drama Moonlight. Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety ..read more