Greatest Movie Of All-Time

Dana and Tom are back again to discuss what Dana has called the Best Movie of 2014, Whiplash (2014); the first feature film of Oscar-Winner Damien Chazelle starring Miles Teller and JK Simmons (in an Oscar-winning Performance). Plot Summary: Young musician (Miles Teller) in a conservatory meets with an overly aggressive teacher (JK Simmons) who tries to push him toward greatness until everything i...

Dana and Tom are back with their first movie of Season 2 with one of Tom's personal favorites, 12 Angry Men: directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Reginald Rose, starring Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb, and Martin Balsam. Plot Summary: Following the closing arguments in a murder trial, the 12 members of the jury must deliberate, with a guilty verdict meaning death for the accused, an inner-...

Dana and Tom give you their top 25 favorite character actor performances lists. You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Facebook page at Greatest Movie of All-Time Podcast . For more on the episode, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/tom-and-dana-s-favorite-25-character-actor-performances For the entire rankings list so far, go to: https://www...

Dana and Tom are back for Season 2. They start by revisiting the list so far through 50 films, and by giving you a few teases for things to come in Season 2. You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Facebook page at Greatest Movie of All-Time Podcast . For the entire rankings list so far, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all...

Dana and Tom wrap up a great season 1 with one of the movies that consistently ranks inside a lot of Top 10 lists of the Greatest Movies of All-Time, Casablanca (1942): directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Raines. Plot Summary: Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with...

Dana and Tom discuss one of the most popular and well-known Christmas classics, Home Alone (1990): directed by Chris Columbus, written by John Hughes, starring Catherine O'Hara, Macauley Caulkin, Daniel Stern, and Joe Pesci. Plot Summary: When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the...

Dana and Tom discuss the Marvel Studios movie that upended the movie industry and drove us to our current sequel-heavy industry-wide state, Iron Man (2008): directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Plot Summary: A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap...

Dana and Tom discuss a little known war comedy, Mister Roberts (1955): directed by John Ford, written by Frank S. Nugent and Joshua Logan, starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, and Jack Lemmon. Plot Summary: Mister Roberts is a bittersweet film about a supply officer aboard a decrepit cargo ship during World War II who yearns for a transfer into a combat zone but is thwarted by the s...

Dana and Tom discuss one of the biggest movies of the 1990s that is the definition of a cable rewatchable and one of Dana's favorites, Apollo 13 (1995): directed by Ron Howard, written by William Broyles Jr., starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Gary Senise, and Bill Paxton. Plot Summary: This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom...

In this special episode, the rest of the Duncans join Tom and Dana to celebrate Dana's birthday with a movie that has very sentimental value to Dana, My Fair Lady (1964): directed by George Cukor, written by Alan Jay Lerner, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. Plot Summary: In this beloved musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he t...

Dana was sick this week, and Tom had to call an audible to bring in Christine for her favorite movie, Pillow Talk. Yet, Dana quickly recovered right before the show, and we bring you a great episode that was not what we had originally planned for you. From 1959, we review Pillow Talk starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall. Plot Summary: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's (Rock Hudson) succ...

Dana and Tom discuss the classic romantic comedy, the Philadelphia Story (1940): directed by George Cukor, written by Donald Ogden Stewart and Waldo Salt, starring Cary Grant, James Stewart, and Katherine Hepburn. Plot Summary: This classic romantic comedy focuses on Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), a Philadelphia socialite who has split from her husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), due both to...

Dana and Tom tribute Sean Connery after his recent passing by reviewing his most iconic role and movie, Goldfinger (1964): directed by Guy Hamilton, written by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn, starring Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, and Honor Blackman. Plot Summary: The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated Operation Grand Slam, a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world eco...

Dana and Tom dissect their first Coen Brothers movie in one of the biggest Best Picture misses of all-time, Fargo (1996): written and directed by Joel and Etan Coen, starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, and Steve Buscemi. Plot Summary: A pregnant police chief is investigating a series of homicides across the frozen tundra. Against a sprawling Minnesota landscape, a car salesman hires two c...

Dana and Tom discuss one of their personal favorites to celebrate the election, All the President's Men (1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula, written by William Goldman, starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, and Martin Balsam. Plot Summary: Two green reporters and rivals working for the Washington Post, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman),...

Dana and Tom discuss one of the biggest and most well-known films of all-time, Jaws (1975) directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, and starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw. Plot Summary: When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants...

Dana and Tom welcome Robb Conlon (host of the Recruiting Hell podcast) to the show to discuss the original Sci-Fi Horror Film, Alien (1979): directed by Ridley Scott, written by Dan O'Bannon, starring Sigourney Weaver and Tom Skeritt. Plot Summary: In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigat...

Dana and Tom discuss David Lean's classic Best Picture winner from 1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): directed by David Lean, written by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, starring Alec Guiness and William Holden. Plot Summary: British POWs are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay the progress until their commandi...

Dana and Tom are joined by Aruna Krishnan, (host of the Lead that Thing podcast and bestselling author), to talk about every teenage girl's favorite movie from the aughts, the Notebook (2005): directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by Jeremy Leven, starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, and James Marsden. Plot Summary: In 1940s South Carolina, mill worker Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and rich girl Al...

Dana and Tom are joined by special guest, Roger Wolkoff, to discuss their first sports movie of the show, Bull Durham (1988): written and directed by Ron Shelton, starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins. Plot Summary: In Durham, N.C., the Bulls minor league baseball team has one asset no other can claim: a poetry-loving groupie named Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon). As the team's seas...

Dana and Tom are joined by Brenden Kumarasamy from MasterTalk (a YouTube channel helping people to be better public speakers) discuss The Social Network (2010): directed by David Fincher, written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake. Plot Summary: In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new conce...

Dana and Tom are back again to discuss a personal favorite of theirs; the comedy re-defining Airplane! (1980): written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Robert Hays. Plot Summary: This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet ar...

Tom and Guest Braden Ganter review the 1986 classic, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): written and directed by John Hughes, starring Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck. Plot Summary: Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-d...

Dana and Tom discuss the movie that Paul Newman might be most known for, Cool Hand Luke (1967): directed by Stuart Rosenberg, written by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson, starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin. Plot Summary: When petty criminal Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden (...

Dana, Tom, and special guest, Christine Duncan (aka mom), discuss the romantic classic, Sleepless in Seattle (1993): written and directed by Nora Ephron, co-written by David S. Ward and Jeff Arch, starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Rita Wilson, and Rosie O'Donnell. Plot Summary: After the death of his wife, Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) moves to Seattle with his son, Jonah (Ross Mallinger). When Jonah calls...