Best Supporting Podcast

Things are getting spooky on the Upper East Side this week as we revisit our favorite Best Supporting Housewives of New York for a disastrous Season 12 Halloween party. Helping us tackle this seafood tower of terror is The Shore Store’s Justine Elizabeth! Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow and early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: thebsapod@gmail.com Instag...

It’s the date movie of 2004, “Closer”! Not a couples counselor in sight as four broken people bump traumas and look for love in all the wrong strip clubs. Clive Owen and Natalie Portman both got best supporting Oscar nominations, but we’re equally intrigued with Julia Roberts in one of her less-discussed roles, while Jude Law is a shadow of the hunk he played in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Join us fo...

The rise and fall of the one-hit Wonders is packed with chart-topping performances and is a platinum record in our books! This week we’re fangirling over 1996’s “That Thing You Do”, with Tom Hanks doing triple duty as director, writer and co-star, Steve Zahn running away with the movie, Tom Everett Scott appreciating jazz, Charlize Theron, Obba Babatunde, Rita Wilson, Alex Rocco, Chris Isaak, Kevi...

Honestly, we just felt like talking about “Unfaithful” this week! It’s got strong fall vibes, an Oscar nominated Diane Lane, Kate Burton in the Friend role, a face journey on the Metro North, wind machines at a 27, that song in the trailer and two beloved BSAs in practically nonexistent cameos. Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow and early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/...

Well leggo my eggo, Juno is preggo! While this 2007 Oscar winner was a career making moment for writer Diablo Cody and Elliott Page, it’s Jennifer Garner who runs away with this movie for us, with Allison Janney’s Bren close behind in a Previa. Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow and early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: thebsapod@gmail.com Instagram: @bsapo...

“Silver Linings Playbook” brought home Oscar gold for Jennifer Lawrence and nominations all around for 2012’s Dirty Dancing for Manic Depressives in Philly. (Or is this some strange version of Garden State?) Jacki Weaver makes crabby snacks and drives a Cadillac, John Ortiz and Chris Tucker are some best supporting friends, Bradley Cooper is a babe and we can fix him, and it turns out that Robert...

We’re welcoming in the unofficial start of fall the best way we know how—talking about grief! 2010’s “Rabbit Hole” is easily one of Nicole Kidman’s best performances, and The Wiest as her mother with her own brick in her pocket almost makes us forget that Tyne Daly played that role on Broadway. Tammy Blanchard channels one of the greatest moments in this podcast’s history, Sandra Oh is a best supp...

We wrap up Family Movie Month with what can best be described as “Carrie” for kids. (With a surprising scoop of “Texas Chainsaw  Massacre” and an important connection to “Scream 2”!) Despite its spooky undertones (and Roald Dahl roots), “Matilda” is also an enthralling coming of age story featuring small legend Mara Wilson,  Embeth Davidtz’s Icon to the Introverted, Miss Honey, TV royalty Danny De...

We’re seeing double this week as we cover “It Takes Two”‘s refined identical twin, “The Parent Trap”! Lindsay Lohan gets the Nancy Meyers treatment twice over in her film debut, and Lisa Ann Walter makes denim shirts and Dockers iconic as Best Supporting Chessy. Plus Elaine Hendrix feasting on the evil future stepmother role, an unflinchingly cool Natasha Richardson, a number of clearly gay men, o...

Family Movie Month is returning to the heyday of the oddball 90s kid this week with “Harriet the Spy”! We first run through the roster of our own childhood favorites as former Nickelodeon kids, and spend some time talking about how great A Little Princess and A League of their Own are. Speaking of which, Rosie O’Donnell as Old Golly completely makes up for that time she rode the bus with her siste...

We’re kicking off what has turned into an annual tradition because we’ve now done it twice, Family Movie Month! This week we’re buying an old mansion with Bebe Neuwirth, rolling the dice with Kirsten Dunst and remembering a time when Bonnie Hunt was seemingly always on our televisions with 1995’s “Jumanji”! We also get a pitch perfect Patricia Clarkson making a meal out of the mom role, a pre-law...

A month of international interpersonal dramas between the Real Housewives of New York ends with the Season 4 melodrama that is Morocco. We’ve got all the original wives, including Alex fighting with the strength of ten out of control camels. (Or perhaps a herd of buffalo.) Kelly is here to make it weird, Jill Zarin digs up two seasons of resentment and has a lot of architecture related questions,...

We’re headed up to the Berkshires this week for another girls trip gone awry at Dorinda’s infamous and possibly sentient Blue Stone Manor. Ramona spends the afternoon dodging Elyse as an opening act before Luann takes center stage in, once again, a cabaret related drama, this time with an underpaid and overserved Sonja. Luckily the lady of the house is also a warrior. Is the house driving them mad...

Things go south in South Beach this week as we take another trip with the Real Housewives of New York, specifically Season 11’s “Life is Not a Cabaret.” Highlights include coercing Sonja to go to an AA meeting with recently sober Luann, which sends her spiraling out over a sandy cabana an hour later, poor little Barbara K trying to get in the game, a relatively docile Dorinda and Ramona in support...

The only thing we love as much as Best Supporting Actresses is The Real Housewives of New York, so we will combine the two whenever possible. And there’s no better example of that than the Season 7 episode “London Calling” when cool Carole and a debut season Dorinda go to London to retrieve the ashes of Carole’s late husband. It’s an A24 movie begging to be made starring Vera Farmiga and Edie Falc...

We’re just over the moon that Kathleen Quinlan got an Oscar nomination for playing Marilyn Lovell, the heart of 1995’s “Apollo 13”. But it’s also babe city with Ed Harris in that vest, Gary Sinise leaning against that car, Kevin Bacon’s elusive butt, a southern fried Bill Paxton and a baby faced Tom Hanks post-Gump and that line of hair. We also give some love to Ron Howard’s mom, learn a little a...

Not only do we queen out on “The Birdcage” this week, we also discuss some of our favorite Diane’s, a couple of Ron’s, at least two Mames, one singular Bonnie, a piece of Jason Alexander and just buckets of veteran actresses in lightweight ensemble comedies. Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow and early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: thebsapod@gmail.com Ins...

We’re ordering two businesswomen’s lunch specials this week and discussing the 1997 cult classic “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion”! Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are iconically indelible (especially the Romy voice), but we also get cigarette acting from Jeneane Garafalo, Elaine Hendrix as a power lesbian Sue Snell, Julia Campbell’s cruel Christie (the way she eats that burger though!), and...

This is a bestseller in our hearts! 2023’s “American Fiction” earned writer/director Cord Jefferson’s screenplay a much deserved Oscar, Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K Brown underdog nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, and introduced us to Queen Coraline, Ten Perfect Minutes of screen time from Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae in that conference room scene, THE Leslie Uggams, and of cou...

Our sampler of the 60s ends this month with “The Graduate”! We get to see Annie Sullivan in a whole new light as the OG cougar Mrs. Robinson, one of our favorite Stepford Wives as her unwitting daughter Elaine, the mayor from Jaws in a surprisingly fascinating role as the spurned husband, Roz from 9 to 5 and Mr Feeney putzing around in the pool, a no nonsense Norman Fell, Dick Lemon working the fr...

We’re staying in the 60s this week and with Patty Duke, but instead of sparkling as Neely O’Hara she’s learning to fold her napkin and beating the crap out of Annie Sullivan in “The Miracle Worker”! Duke and Anne Bancroft deservedly both won Oscars in this portrayal of Helen Keller’s arduous journey to learn not only how to read and speak but the concept of words and letters. And also discipline a...

We are ascending the Mr Everest of camp this week to plunge into 1967’s “Valley of the Dolls”! While not necessarily a good movie, it is still a GREAT movie, with Patty Duke absolutely sparkling as Neely (especially when it comes to conquering Cystic Fibrosis!), Barbara Parkins laying on the beach briefly, everything Susan Hayward does in that bathroom but especially the iconic wig reveal, Lee Gra...

We’re wrapping up a month of early 2000s prestige pictures that Nick potentially owned on DVD with the quintessential modern classic, 2006’s “Babel”! Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi joined a competitive race for Best Supporting Actress against Abigail Breslin’s Rick James inspired dance moves, a scandalous Blanchett shoving Judi Dench into a credenza and a Dreamgirl, and I am telling you I might...

We were so full of Marcia Gay Pride from last week’s episode that it was time to break a decades long blacklisting of “Pollock” to discuss her dark horse Oscar win as Lee Krasner in Ed Harris’s punch drunk biopic of Jackson Pollock. We also get Amy Madigan going full Ullman, Jennifer Connelly as Worst Supporting Ruth, John Heard from "The Sopranos", a wacky cameo from Val Kilmer that takes us down...

We’re shipping up to Boston this week for 2003’s modern day Greek tragedy, “Mystic River”! Sean Penn and Tim Robbins both took home Oscars for their rag-wrung performances, and Marcia Gay Harden was well and truly robbed of her second Oscar as the tortured Celeste. We’re of differing opinions on Laura Linney’s low-key Lady Macbeth, but eye to eye on the welcomed presence of Kevin Bacon and Laurenc...