Shea Cinema: The Best Picture Project

In our fifth review this season, Sara and Dad watch and analyze the last of the three nominees for the Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Picture, The Crowd. Released on February 28, 1928, The Crowd blends the emotional ups and downs of married life with interesting and artistic camera work that pulls even further at the heartstrings. For the first time ever, this episode features a VERY S...

In our fourth review this season, Sara and Dad watch and analyze the winner of the first (and only) Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Picture,  Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Released on September 23, 1927, Sunrise divided critics and wooed audiences with its inventive camerawork and allegorical love story. What seems to be a standard "murder your wife in order to run away with your...

This is our first official movie review episode! Sara and Dad conquer their chang-st and chang-xiety and get down to discussing the oldest of the movies on the list this season, Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness. Chang  was released on April 29, 1927, and rather defies definition. To be sure, a movie like this will never show up again on this podcast, no matter how many films we cover. Additional i...

This is our second official movie review episode! Sara and Dad watch and discuss the classic silent film, 7th Heaven. 7th Heaven was released on May 6, 1927, and was nominated (and won) for the most awards at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. Additional insights include a brief look at the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope Road Pictures, Sara getting emotional over the language "heard" in si...

In our third official movie review episode Sara and Dad watch and analyze the winner of the first Academy Award for Outstanding Production, Wings. Released on August 12, 1927 (just a few months after 7th Heaven) , Wings astounded audiences with its stunning engineering effects and matter-of-fact look at the tragedies of war. All of the flying in the film is REAL (the actors are flying the planes--...

In our first official episode, Sara and Dad go over the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, details of the first awards ceremony in 1929 (honoring the best in films from 1927 and 1928), and give an overview of the six films nominated for the top honor.  Subsequent episodes of Season One will cover each of these films in detail. The Movies: Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness,...

Pre-Game Mini-Episode Four Sara and Dad go over Best Picture stats and trivia, and reveal the scariest movie Sara has ever seen. Please leave us a review wherever you are listening! Email us rants as well as raves: sheacinema@gmail.com You can also find us on Instagram (and now Twitter/X): @sheacinema

Pre-Game Mini-Episode One Sara welcomes you to Shea Cinema: The Best Picture Project, and explains the genesis of the podcast and why this is more than your run-of-the-mill movie review show. Please leave us a review wherever you are listening! Email us rants as well as raves: sheacinema@gmail.com You can also find us on Instagram (and now Twitter/X): @sheacinema

Pre-Game Mini-Episode Two Dad (William) talks about doing the podcast, and the impact movies have had on his life. Please leave us a review wherever you are listening! Email us rants as well as raves: sheacinema@gmail.com You can also find us on Instagram (and now Twitter/X): @sheacinema

Pre-Game Mini-Episode Three Sara and Dad chat about the creation of the Academy Awards and revel in some movie trivia. Please leave us a review wherever you are listening! Email us rants as well as raves: sheacinema@gmail.com You can also find us on Instagram (and now Twitter/X): @sheacinema

Please leave us a review wherever you are listening! Email us rants as well as raves: sheacinema@gmail.com You can also find us on Instagram (and now Twitter/X): @sheacinema