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It took us two whole weeks to process the enormity of this year's Academy Awards. But, we're here now—with answers to critical questions like: Will Conan's hosting job finally help him make it big in Hollywood? Should the Best Song nominee performances be terminated permanently? Is Adrian Brody a himbo? Why do male celebs have such boring red carpet looks? All this and more as we come...

We deliver our predictions for the major categories at the 2025 Academy Awards. If you're thinking of betting on this year's results, copy our picks—we guarantee you'll make a ton of cash.

On this episode we tally the results of our Oscar Contenders Draft and finally reveal our favorite movies of 2024. We needed the extra two months to unravel the quantum mechanics that Letterboxd uses to determine what year a movie released in.

We draft our teams of top 2025 Oscar contenders ahead of the nominations announcement on Thursday, January 23. Then we dive into a rapid-fire round of predictions, cranking through the dark-horse films that might sneak into the race with a surprise nomination or two. 0:41 Episode Begins 13:19 Rapid-fire predictions

In this much delayed episode recorded at the end of October, we discuss all the spooky movies we watched in anticipation of Halloween. We also talk about the movies that we remember terrifying us as children and whether their scares still hold up.

We wrap up TIFF 2024 with a deep discussion on the festival's corporate activations, the sponsorship and ad dynamics, Roz & Mocha's struggle and of course, the movies we saw at the festival. If the films are what you care most about, we discuss: Bonjour Tristesse 40 Acres By The Stream The Shrouds The Substance Flow The Wild Robot

We return to the hallowed ground of TIFF's festival street for another live on-location report. Join us for a discussion on the latest corporate activations while someone vacuums the red carpet behind our recording site. Look forward to our full TIFF wrap-up episode, as well as our in-depth Planet of the Apes franchise discussion in the near future. Please be excited.

Hollywood's yearly celebration of their golden god has finished and we deliver our verdict on the big night. We cover the third TIFF Oscars Watch Party, the best Red Carpet fashion, our favourite speeches and the winners/losers that surprised us.

We deliver our final 2024 Academy Award predictions, as well as some prognostications on the Fab Five and who red carpet fashion.

In our penultimate episode before this Sunday's Academy Awards, we recap the winners and red carpet fashion of the 2024 SAG Awards, discuss Bradley Cooper's post-Maestro parenting revelations and break down why Best Live-Action Short Film is the most-watch category this awards season.

We break down the nomination slate for the 2024 Academy Awards and answer all your burning questions: Was Barbie snubbed? Does France regret its lack of faith in Anatomy of a Fall? Are the Academy voters basic? Can The Creator take down Oppenheimer? Listen for all this and more...

On this episode, we pick teams of movies we think will garner the most Oscar nominations when the Academy announces this year's slate on Tuesday morning. We are also joined by a special guest at one point. Please enjoy.

We set out on the golden road to Oscar Night 2024 by marking out true contenders and pretenders based on the recent SAG, DGA and PGA Award nominations. Plus we discuss our early 2024 watches and if any would have cracked our 2023 top ten.

We continue the annual tradition of revealing our top 10 films of the year to each other on New Year's Eve. Despite the many horrible things happening throughout the world and the dredges other art forms have found themselves in, there were a lot of great movies that came out this year. Thanks to any and all who listened to our episodes this year.

We crashed the allegedly public Varda Lounge Launch Party and lived to bring you this uncensored report. We also review TIFF's first Member Appreciation Weekend and then get into some belated Spooktober Watchlist discussion.

We discuss all the films we saw at TIFF 2023, including Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron. We also bring you a live, on-the-ground report from TIFF's Festival Street. Are the corporate activations finally back and better than ever? Only one way to find out...

We spill tea on TIFF's obtuse ticketing system and its successful assault on our chances of getting The Boy and The Heron tickets. Then we reveal our initial selections for the festival before ending with a discussion around the potential drama behind the TIFF-Bell sponsorship divorce.

Our yearly allotted vacation saw us journey to the plastic-surgery-soaked shores of South Korea via a 13-hour flight. We discuss the movies that helped us endure the long-haul and where they rank among the various films we've watched on other flights in the past. Shout out to The Leche Whisperer AKA El Macho Gato AKA Puss-in-Boots for keeping our sanity intact while soaring amongst the clouds.

Death-defying divers, ankle-breaking athletes, game-changing farmers and a selfless carpenter. What do all these things have in common? They are the subjects of the documentaries we saw at Hot Docs 2023. And what do all Hot Docs 2023 films have in common? They are all preceded by what may go down as the greatest advertisement of the year. We discuss all this and more on another incredible episode...

Another year, another tribute to the golden god slumbering beneath Los Angeles. We give our thoughts on the Oscars viewing party we attended, the show itself, the winners, the controversies and most important of all: the red carpet fashion.

With the big night less than a week away we assess the biggest predictors of Oscar results: the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAGs) & the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). Don't go into your bracket blind, use the knowledge we provide in this episode to impress everyone at your office job. Yes, it may diminish your soul and joie de vivre, but if all your coworkers and your boss see you come...

The world's foremost expert on Wario and the Mario Kart franchise is joined by a gamer and Last of Us veteran to analyze the early episodes of human history's first good video game adaptation. We get into the non-gamer's perspective on the game and show, the initial expectations of the story, the pilot episode's shocking first half and the strikingly romantic third episode. 

On our most heated episode to date, we go over the recently announced 2023 Oscar Nominations while debating Everything Everywhere All At Once's frontrunner status and the merits of Andrea Riseborough's Twitter-Bot-fueled campaign for Best Lead Actress. We also lament the snubbing of some personal favourite films and filmmakers. 

Before we truly set foot into the Year of the Rabbit, we reveal to each other our ranked lists of the 10 best films we saw in 2022. One of us articulates clearly why these movies left such an impression, while the other attempts to explain why he almost cried in a theatre multiple times and how deeply Kristen Stewart's whispers impacted him. Either way, hopefully you can share in our passion or fi...

Following our screening of Avatar: The Way of Water we have finally begun to understand the Post-Avatar depression phenomenon of 2009. We vent about our intense desire to swim with a magic fantasy whale and escape to a beautiful waterfront property on the oceans of Pandora, while also skimming across topics like Neytiri's strangely marginal role in the film, the invaluable resource of Pandorapedia...