Movie of the Year

Movie of the Year 2023 Mixtape Our 2023 mixtape contains all the bangers and bops of 2023! Click here to listen to the playlist! A mixtape is a sacred, holy thing. Young guns will call them playlists, but young guns aren't even old enough, or wise enough, to know about the hit film Young Guns. You couldn't make Young Guns today, because of woke, but you could probably reboot it, because no more id...

Movie of the Year 2023 Century of the Year The 2023 Century of the Year show covers the 100 biggest pop culture moments of 2023! Century of the Year is the only time when we can come together and discuss the year in pop culture. What were the 100 biggest pop culture moments of 2023, and how did they change the world? Pop culture is the most important part of life, and yet we so rarely hear anyone...

Movie of the Year 2023 BOTY Movie Preview  Show The 2023 BOTY Movie Preview Show covers all the great movies of 2023! We have talked about the rest, now let's talk about the best: films. It is movietime, folks, and that means we have to call in the big guns—friends of the pod Kate and Nate (no relation)—and start voting movies off the island. No human being can watch sixteen movies, and so we...

The 2023 BOTY Preview Show covers all of our upcoming Best of the Year episodes! The year 2023 has drawn to a close. But before we can say goodbye to it forever, we need to decide what were the best media of the this remarkable year. However, 16 movies, 16 TV dramas, 16 TV comedies, 16 albums, 55 burgers, and 55 fries is way too much for us to comment on meaningfully with our trademark penerative...

In the 2024 Oscar Draft, we draft the movies of 2023 to see who can get the most Oscar nominations! We have seen the movies of 2023. Now, it is time to make our picks for which we think will get the most Oscar nominations. Not wins here, people: nominations. A blockbuster movie like Barbie or Oppenheimer is liable to get upwards of ten noms. That's the kind of movie you want to pick in a draft lik...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Finale Part Three On the 1973 Finale Part Three we we are down to four movies, one of which is our 1973 Movie of the Year! By the time you have finished listening to 1973 Finale Part Three, you will know 1973's Movie of the Year. 1973 was a fine year at the movies. Maybe it's not the powerhouse we anticipated. But looking at the remaining movies— Coffy , Don't Look Now , Me...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Finale Part Two On the 1973 Finale Part Two we continue to whittle down our sixteen-movie bracket, closing in on our 1973 Movie of the Year! It all comes down to almost this, but then just a little bit more after this. A lot of times the second part of a trilogy is the best part. Think about it: Empire Strikes Back , The Last Jedi , Attack of the —uh, Godfather II . Last we...

On the 1973 Finale Part One we start to whittle down our sixteen-movie bracket, closing in on our 1973 Movie of the Year! It is the beginning of the end of our 1973 season of Movie of the Year. We have watched the movies. We have participated in the science. Ryan and Mike did a lot of screaming. All that is left to us to do is begin to make these pieces of art square off against each other, Gladia...

This week we discuss American Graffiti ! Can this movie drive its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Cars, they mean so much to us here in America. Americans love car so much that some have even taken to living in them. There are many images that scream America: Frat Boys drunk chanting USA; a gun being fired into the air after a sporting event win or loss; or simply a small child without healthca...

This week we discuss Coffy ! Can this movie blast its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Coffy is 91 minutes long…so there you go folks, our 1973 Movie of the Year, for being nearly the conically perfect runtime. We can just run the award over to Ms. Grier’s house any time. Literally anytime. Coffy is a simple nurse until her little sister is preyed upon by local drug-selling enthusiasts. Seeking...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Don't Look Now This week we discuss Don't Look Now ! Can this movie chase its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? After losing their daughter Christine to an accidental drowning, Laura and John Baxter relocate to Venice, Italy so he can restore an old, and somehow fake(??), church. But while there, they encounter a couple of odd sisters, one of who seems to have the gift of...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Enter the Dragon This week we discuss Enter the Dragon ! Can this movie fight its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Enter the Dragon follows Lee, played by Bruce Lee, a shaolin monk who must leave the monastery and make his way to an island with no pistols and no guns. He must enter a fighting tournament to reclaim the honor of his family and his temple, and he has to do a...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Action Figure Draft, Pt 2 The Taste Buds finish up their draft of the action figures of 1973! And then it's time to fight! It's that time again. That time of the year where we forget all of the depth and subtlety that is used to tell the stories of our favorite 1973 characters, and instead focus on one thing: how they're going to kick your ass. Join your host Greg, along wi...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Action Figure Draft, Pt 1 Get the toy boxes out, because we're having an all-out action figure war on Movie of the Year! It's that time again. That time of the year where we forget all of the depth and subtlety that is used to tell the stories of our favorite 1973 characters, and instead focus on one thing: how they're going to kick your ass. Join your host Greg, along with...

Movie of the Year: 1973 The Harder They Come This week we discuss The Harder They Come ! Can this movie play its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Set in Jamaica, The Harder They Come is a drama about an aspiring singer, Ivan, desperate for fame who, disillusioned by corruption in every part of daily life, becomes involved in some reefer madness.  Unfortunately, that trade is controlled by t...

Movie of the Year: 1973 The Exorcist This week we discuss The Exorcist ! Is this movie diabolical enough to be our 1973 Movie of the Year? The Exorcist is our biggest 1973 movie. It was the most popular then; it’s the most popular now; it made the most money; it got hella noms; and it has a lasting cultural impact that is as big if not bigger than any other movie we have covered on this show , let...

Movie of the Year: 1973 The Last Detail This week we discuss The Last Detail ! Can we swear this is our 1973 Movie of the Year? The Last Detail is a movie about three sailors, who are on their way to deliver one of the trio to jail. But thanks to some clever thinking ahead, they are able to secure a little time for a boys trip! Now we know here at Pop Filter that nothing is more sacred than a boys...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Last Tango in Paris This week we discuss The Last Tango in Paris ! Can a movie this uncomfortable to talk about be our Movie of the Year? Last Tango in Paris is the story of Paul, an extremely recently widowed man whose relationship with his wife was complicated, and Jeanne, a 19 year old who comes to find herself completely dominated and enthralled by him. Meeting by chanc...

Movie of the Year: 1973 The Long Goodbye This week we discuss The Long Goodbye ! Can this film solve the case of what should be  our Movie of the Year? Director Robert Altman said he wanted Phillip Marlowe to wake up in the 1970’s, a man out of time, and just wander through the twists and turns of The Long Goodbye . Eliot Gould seems to have taken this to heart because he crafted the wanderen...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Mean Streets This week we discuss Mean Streets ! Are these mean streets tough enough to become our Movie of the Year? Mean Streets is principally about three characters. We have Michael—the wanna-be gangster who is trying to will himself to fit into a world of crime that he doesn’t seem ready for yet, what with getting himself easily scammed and perpetually disrespected. Th...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Paper Moon This week we discuss Paper Moon ! Can it rise high enough to become our Movie of the Year? Paper Moon is a fun little romp about a shady guy and his daughter, seamlessly played by a shady guy and enemy of the show, Ryan O’Neal, and his real-life 10-year-old daughter, Tatum O’Neal, with whom he has always had a strained relationship. We spend most of the show gett...

This week we discuss Robin Hood ! Can it steal the gold and become our Movie of the Year? Robin Hood is about a fox everyone wants to get with even though he hasn’t even kissed his own girlfriend. But here’s something cool about him: he shoots arrows real good and takes money from the rich to give to the poor by reusing old footage and fleshing out the runtime with a series of looping chase scenes...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Serpico This week we discuss Serpico ! Can it take the cash and become our Movie of the Year? Serpico asks the question, what if it turned out that cops weren't always the good guys? Now, try to stay with me because this is probably going to blow your mind a little bit, but the cops in Serpico aren’t concerned with making the world a better place or with protecting the litt...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Sisters This week we discuss Sisters ! Is this movie bonkers enough to become our Movie of the Year? Sisters is many things: creepy, funny, campy, doing it for themselves. It follows the struggle of two women to make it in this wacky world. One, Grace Collier, is an intrepid reporter for the Staten Island Panorama, trying to get a scoop, the other is model and aspiring actr...

Movie of the Year: 1973 Mixtape, Pt. 2 The Taste Buds finish up their epic 1973 playlist! When we last left our Taste Bud Triumvirate, they were butt-deep in the music of 1973. Now it's time to get all of the way deep. Join Greg, Ryan, and Taylor as they continue to create their mixtape live on the air. Ryan has the closing song, and is waiting for his chance to end the whole thing. Will his song...