Movie of the Year

Movie of the Year: 2006 The Puffy Chair The Puffy Chair Podcast Hits the Road The Puffy Chair podcast episode sends the Taste Buds on a road trip through the Duplass brothers' scrappy 2006 breakout. Ryan, Mike, and Greg buckle up to decide whether this mumblecore landmark deserves a deep run in the Movie of the Year 2006 bracket . Moreover, they bring serious backup this week. Critic and author Ke...

Movie of the Year: 2006 Mixtape, Part II The 2006 Mixtape Part 2 Podcast Finishes the Playlist The 2006 Mixtape Part 2 podcast picks up exactly where Part I left off. The full five person panel returns to finish what they started: a definitive, collectively built playlist of the best songs of 2006. Ryan, Mike, and Greg, the Taste Buds behind Movie of the Year, are once again joined by guests Nate...

Movie of the Year: 2006 Mixtape, Part I The 2006 Mixtape Podcast Kicks Off — One Song at a Time The 2006 Mixtape podcast episode is unlike anything else in the Movie of the Year catalog. Instead of debating a single film, Ryan, Mike, and Greg welcome two special guests — Nate Ragolia of Debut Buddies and longtime PopFilter friend Taylor Wilhite — for a round-robin music showcase that captures the...

Movie of the Year: 2006 Brick The Brick podcast episode of Movie of the Year arrives just in time to appreciate one of 2006's most audacious genre experiments. Ryan, Mike, and Greg are joined by Pete Wright of TruStory FM to dig into Rian Johnson's neo-noir debut, a film that transplants the hard-boiled world of Dashiell Hammett into the hallways and parking lots of a Southern California high scho...

Movie of the Year: 2006 Slither The Slither Podcast Brings Body Horror to the 2006 Bracket The Slither podcast episode unleashes the first true horror movie on our Movie of the Year 2006 bracket. After opening the season with Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story , the Taste Buds trade metafiction for meteorites. Consequently, things get slimy fast. Ryan, Mike, and Greg welcome producer and festi...

Movie of the Year: 2006 Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story The Tristram Shandy Podcast Opens the 2006 Bracket The Tristram Shandy podcast episode kicks off our brand new 2006 bracket on Movie of the Year. After crowning our way through 1971, the Taste Buds turn to a fresh film year. Moreover, we start with one of the strangest comedies of the decade. Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A C...

Movie of the Year: 2006 The Sweet 16 Revealed The Best Movies of 2006 Enter the Bracket This episode puts the movies of 2006 on the clock, as Ryan, Mike, and Greg reveal which 16 titles advance to the bracket season. The Taste Buds have spent weeks wrestling with a starting field of 64 films, and the cuts have been real. The debates ahead will be worth every minute. Getting from 64 films to 16 req...

Movie of the Year: 2006 A New Season Begins The Movies of 2006 Podcast Begins: 128 Films Enter the Bracket The movies of 2006 podcast is officially underway, and the Taste Buds are ready to take on one of the richest film years of the 21st century. Ryan, Mike, and Greg kick off the 2006 season on PopFilter by introducing the year, explaining the bracket structure, and beginning the first round of...

Movie of the Year: 1971 The Finale, Part II The 1971 Film Finale Podcast: One Champion Remains The 1971 film finale podcast brings the Taste Buds' most ambitious bracket season to its definitive conclusion. Ryan, Mike, and Greg have debated, dismissed, and championed their way through a remarkable field — and now eight films remain. In this episode, four Elite Eight matchups collapse into a single...

Movie of the Year: 1971 The Finale, Part II The 1971 Film Bracket Podcast Reaches the Elite Eight This 1971 film bracket podcast returns with its most dramatic episode yet. Ryan, Mike, and Greg — the Taste Buds — work through the bottom half of the Sweet 16, producing four matchups that nobody saw coming. Furthermore, the episode hands out two major awards: Comedic Performance and Biggest Shithead...

Movie of the Year: 1971 The Finale, Part I The Movie of the Year 1971 Podcast Reaches Its Reckoning The Movie of the Year 1971 podcast has arrived at its moment of reckoning. Ryan, Mike, and Greg — the Taste Buds — open the three-part finale with a full awards ceremony, a frank assessment of what 1971 means to cinema history, and the first wave of bracket eliminations. Sixteen films entered this s...

Movie of the Year: 1971 Straw Dogs (feat. Erik from the Cradle to the Grave pod!) The Straw Dogs Podcast: Peckinpah's Most Dangerous Film The Straw Dogs podcast episode of Movie of the Year confronts one of 1971's most debated, disturbing, and relentlessly provocative films — Sam Peckinpah's psychological siege thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. Ryan, Mike, and Greg are joined by E...

Movie of the Year: 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song The Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Podcast The Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song podcast brings Ryan, Mike, and Greg to one of 1971's most radical and uncompromising films. Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, scored, edited, and starred in this landmark independent work — entirely outside the Hollywood system. The result is a f...

Movie of the Year: 1971 Harold and Maude (feat. Van from the Gaymer Girls pod!) The Harold and Maude podcast episode is here — and the Taste Buds are diving deep into one of 1971's most subversive and life-affirming films. Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971) has been a cult touchstone for over fifty years. This episode gives it the full PopFilter treatment. Ryan, Mike, and Greg welcome guest panel...

Movie of the Year: 1971 Dirty Harry (feat. Conor Kilpatrick from iFanboy!) The Dirty Harry podcast arrives this week on Movie of the Year: 1971, as the Taste Buds take on one of the most influential and contested crime films ever made. Don Siegel's thriller introduced the world to Inspector Harry Callahan — a San Francisco cop who operates on instinct, fury, and a very large handgun. Moreover, the...

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Movie of the Year: 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory podcast fans, this one is for you. Ryan, Mike, and Greg are joined by special guest Matt Singer of ScreenCrush to revisit one of 1971's most beloved and most debated films on Movie of the Year . In addition, Mel Stuart's musical fantasy has frightened and delighted children and adults in equal measu...

This week's French Connection podcast episode covers one of the most thrilling and morally complicated films of 1971. Ryan, Mike, and Greg revisit The French Connection on Movie of the Year . William Friedkin's Best Picture winner changed what American cinema thought a hero could look like. In addition, this episode features a special Gene Hackman career retrospective . Released in 1971, the film...

Few films in the history of cinema have provoked as much discomfort — and as much genuine philosophical debate — as A Clockwork Orange . Stanley Kubrick's 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel arrives like a punch to the temple: stylized, brazen, and engineered to make you complicit in its protagonist's point of view before you've had a chance to object. Alex DeLarge, played by Malc...

Movie of the Year: 1971 The Last Picture Show Revisiting The Last Picture Show In this episode of Movie of the Year: 1971 , Ryan, Mike, and Greg revisit The Last Picture Show , Peter Bogdanovich’s landmark film about youth, loneliness, and a fading Texas town. Released in 1971, the film helped define the early New Hollywood era, blending classical Hollywood craftsmanship with a more modern emotion...

Movie of the Year: Best of the Year 2025 Best Movie of the Year The Best Movies of 2025 Face Off What are the Best Movies of 2025 ? That question drives the biggest episode of the Movie of the Year season. Hosted by Ryan and joined by Mike, Cassie, and Greg , this flagship episode brings together 25 of the most talked-about films of the year in a massive competitive bracket designed to determine o...

Movie of the Year: Best of the Year 2025 Best TV Show of the Year The Best Television Shows of 2025 Enter the Arena The Best Television Shows of 2025 didn’t rise to the top by accident. They survived hype cycles, second-season expectations, streaming saturation, and cultural overload. In this episode of Movie of the Year , Greg hosts a 16-seed competitive bracket—with play-ins—to determine the Bes...

Movie of the Year: Best of the Year 2025 Best Unscripted TV Show of the Year The Best Unscripted Shows of 2025 The Best Unscripted Shows of 2025 reflect a television landscape that is bigger, stranger, and more carefully constructed than ever. In this episode of Movie of the Year , Mike hosts a high-stakes bracket to determine which unscripted series truly stood above the rest, joined by panelists...

Movie of the Year: Best of the Year 2025 Century of the Year A 2025 Year in Review in Real Time Every year tells a story — but rarely this fast. In this special episode of Movie of the Year , the panel presents 2025 – Century of the Year , a bold and chaotic 2025 year in review that attempts something simple, ambitious, and wildly entertaining: 100 of the biggest moments of the year, discussed in...

Movie of the Year: Best of the Year 2025 The Mixtape The 2025 Mixtape as a Time Capsule Every year leaves behind more than movies — it leaves a sound. In this episode of Movie of the Year , the Taste Buds come together to create the 2025 Mixtape , a curated playlist designed to capture what the year felt like through music. Rather than ranking songs or chasing chart placement, the panel builds a l...