Movie of the Year

Movie of the Year: Best of 2022 2022 Horror Movie of the Year It's time for the 8-movie bracket to determine what is the single greatest horror movie of 2022! The podcast hosts start by discussing the overall quality of horror movies that were released in 2022. They highlight which films stood out as being particularly innovative or effective at creating scares, and which ones fell flat. They also...

Movie of the Year: Best of 2022 2022 Album of the Year It's time to pick the 2022 Album of the Year, and you know we couldn't do it without our friends, The Unnatural 20's! It's the biggest night in music podcasting! The Best of 2022 season is well underway, and now it is time to pick which album will represent the year. What's the best way to do that? Tell some of the greatest albums of the year...

Movie of the Year: Best of 2022 The Best of 2022 Preview Show, Pt. 2 It's time to complete the 2022 brackets with previews of the Album of the Year, Horror Film of the Year, Comedy TV Show of the Year, Drama TV Show of the Year, and Film of the Year. It's the beginning of the end for 2022! It's the biggest night in podcasting! The Best of 2022 season is well underway, and now it is time to preview...

Movie of the Year: Best of 2022 The Best of 2022 Preview Show It's time to begin the 2022 brackets with previews of the Album of the Year, Horror Film of the Year, Comedy TV Show of the Year, Drama TV Show of the Year, and Film of the Year. It's the beginning of the end for 2022! It's the biggest night in podcasting! The Best of 2022 season is well underway, and now it is time to preview the rest...

Movie of the Year: Best of 2022 2022 Mixtape The Tastebudz have assembled to form the 2022 mixtape! 2022 was a wonderful time in music, there is no disputing this. Artists like The Weeknd and Bad Bunny released album after amazing album to a tune-hungry populous. But as much as we need that non-stop firehose of music blasting into our earballs, we're not always sure we have time to listen to an en...

Movie of the Year: Best of 2022 Century of the Year 2022 The top 100 pop culture moments of 2022 discussed by the world's closest friends: it's Century of the Year 2022! So much happened in the world of pop culture in 2022. To fully digest and understand everything that went down would require several seasons of several different podcasts, working singly, but for the common goal. And certainly 202...

Movie of the Year: Best of 2022 Oscar Draft Which films will get the most 2022 Oscar nominations? The Oscars. When it comes to little statues handed to movie stars, the absolute top of the table. 2022 had movies galore, and many of them were terrific. But will the academy know which movies to award? Their record on this is spotty at best and disastrous at worst, leading to a feeling that ultimatel...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Gangs of New York (BONUS) The Taste Buds meet at the Five Points to discuss 2002's Gangs of New York and decide whether or not it should have been in contention for Movie of the Year! Gangs of New York is one of those movies that we all think must be good because we feel like we saw it twenty years ago and maybe liked it. But is it good? It has a very weird tone, a pocket-s...

Movie of the Year: 2002 GenreBlast The Taste Buds meet to discuss 2002 GenreBlast and argue about which genres were best represented in 2002! Genres, they make up the bulk at the movies lefty Hollywood pumps out to us year after year, but we here at Pop Filter have no time for anything that is not a serious, pinky-in-the-air drama. However, we know how upsetting it is to simply dispense with actio...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Lilo & Stitch (Bonus Episode) The Taste Buds learn the meaning of family by watching Lilo & Stitch! Lilo & Stitch is a beautiful, loving, caring look at what it means to be a family. Not the blood coursing through our veins, but the love that beats within our breast. Plus, it's got one of the all time goofy little guys in the stitular Titch. Excuse me, the titul...

Movie of the Year The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time The Taste Buds compare their Movie of the Year to the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time The Sight & Sound greatest films of all time list is essentially the canon for movies. Many critics and many directors are tasked with once every five years deciding on the 100 best films. Well, they have submitted their lists, and fo...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Battle Royale The Taste Buds goes to a remote island to kill each other discussing Battle Royale! Before Squid Game , before Ready or Not,  before Avengers Arena , before the Purge series, before the Hunger Games, there was Battle Royale . The final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku , with a screenplay written by his son, Kenta Fukasaku , Battle Royale follows...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Insomnia The Taste Buds stay awake for 7 days straight to bring you the authentic Insomnia experience ! You know how you get a little slow, a little rough around the edges, a little cranky when you're sleepy? Imagine you're working a murder case in Alaska where the sun only shines, IA is breathing down your neck, and you can't get no shut-eye! That's Al Pacino in Insomnia,...

Movie of the Year: 2002 State of the Franchise The Taste Buds drill into the biggest movie franchises of 2002! In 2022, everything is a franchise. It's basically mandated, that unless Jordan Peele is directing it, these movies better be part of a longer string of movies--how else will people know they should see it?! Things were a little different in 2002. Movies were either about to kick off thei...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Bonus Show Comic Books     The Taste Buds take on one of the most important years in comics: 2002! 1939- the world met Superman and Batman. 1941 - Captain America punched Hitler in the face. 1961 - The First Family of Marvel Comics changed the game. 1986- The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen brought gritty darkness to the comics world. 2002 - Does it belong on thi...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Mix Tape The Taste Buds create the greatest 2002 mix tape the world has ever known! Mix tapes give a unique picture of the year, but making them can take a lot of thought and care. We did it despite this fact because we are very brave. But how exactly do you go about it? Some would argue that you simply decide which are the best songs of 2002 and just go with those. But whi...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Spider-Man The Taste Buds dip into some deep comic lore to talk about little-known 2002 property, Spider-Man! Put this one in the category of what was 2002 smoking? Some kid gets bitten by a radioactive spider, and we all know what happens next, right? He gets cancer and dies screaming, I can almost hear you shouting at your computer. (I'm in here, but I can't hear over the...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Bonus Show Halloween: Resurrection The Taste Buds throw us a Halloween Bonus Bone with a show all about 2002's  Halloween: Resurrection! The Taste Buds are interrupting their incredibly long 2002 season with a 17th 2002 movie: Halloween: Resurrection.  Katelynn from  The Superhero Show Show  takes over and makes Ryan and Mike sit their asses down and LIS...

Movie of the Year: 2002 - Talk to Her Does Talk to Her say enough to be 2002's Movie of the Year? 2002 is here, and we are off to the races with Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her . This is a movie the defies simple encapsulation, so it will have to suffice for me to say, this thing is kinda messed up. No, that's not good enough. Kinda really messed up, even. Nah, still not there. It is European. OK, t...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Introduction, Part 2 The 2002 Movie of the Year Introduction Part 2 is here; what eight movies will make up this season? 2002! Oh, how I wish that were the number of movies we got to watch and not just year that will make up this season. But that wouldn't be fair. Not to us. Not to you. And not to the most important part of the entire podcast: the movies. We swore a sacred...

Movie of the Year: 2002 Introduction The 2002 Movie of the Year Introduction is here; which of these amazing films will take home the most coveted prize in Hollywood? The 2002 season is here, and though we are sad to see the 1982 season end, we have never been more "jazzed" to tackle a year. We got a Spider-Man in this year, a Blade sequel, and a Steven Spielberg adaptation of a Philip K. Dick sho...

Movie of the Year: 1982 Finale Part Two 1982's Movie of the Year Finale Part Two is here; which of these amazing films will take home the most coveted prize in Hollywood? Well, here we are at the end of another amazing season. And not just of our show--these movies were pretty good too. Dang, how can we chose just one of these to be 1982's Movie of the Year? Can't we just say they all win and then...

Movie of the Year: 1982 Finale Part One 1982's Movie of the Year Finale is here; which of these amazing films will take home the most coveted prize in Hollywood? The good news is that we are drawing to the exciting conclusion of another fantastic season of movie watching. The bad news is the 1982 season is almost over and we will probably never talk about it or think about it again. The blockbuste...

Movie of the Year: 1982 Gandhi Was Gandhi somehow too successful to make it into the bracket for 1982's Movie of the Year? Gandhi was a great man, but we weren't really interested in this movie because it won so many Oscars. That makes sense, I promise. We almost got to the end of the year before we even considered the movie because we feared it would fall into the category of Green Books and Cras...

Movie of the Year: 1982 Victor/Victoria Is Victor/Victoria dragging us for it leaving off of the bracket for 1982's Movie of the Year? Starring Julie Andrews playing a woman pretending to be a man who is performing as a woman, and made in the early 1980's, you might think Victor/Victoria  runs the risk of being a little old-fashioned. And you'd be right! But in all the best ways. It is non-st...