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Once again, your friends at SportsAlcohol.com have gotten together to predict and dissect the upcoming Academy Awards. Join Sara, Marisa, Jeremy, Ben, Becca, and Jesse as they discuss who WILL win, who SHOULD win, and who was SNUBBED among the nominees for the 98th Oscars, going over a dozen categories including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, and MORE...

Join the SportsAlcohol.com crew of Sara, Ben, Becca, Jeremy, Marisa, Jesse, and Nathaniel as they count down their collective 15 favorite movies of 2025, as well as some outliers that no one else in the group chose for their lists. Revolutionaries, twins, whodunits, heists, business, spies, religious fanatics... they're all here in an expansive but fast-moving conversation about the year in film!

Seasonal switch! After over a decade of looking back at various high-grossing summer movies, we've done something different for 1995. Though we had our usual 20-years-ago and 40-years-ago flashback episodes about the summers past, we also ventured into the HOLIDAY CORRIDOR of 30 years ago to look at the biggest movies first released in November and December 1995, an eclectic bunch that includes th...

After a ridiculously long hiatus, the SportsAlcohol.com crew is back to talk about the biggest summer blockbusters... of 40 years ago. Time travel, space travel, relitigating Vietnam, a bunch of mouthy kids, James Bond, and an overserving of Chevy Chase; truly, this summer had it all, by which we mean a couple of good movies tops! But Ben, Jeremy, Marisa, Sara, and Jesse find some bright spots and...

The SportsAlcohol.com crew makes their long-awaited return with a new installment in their summer flashback series, discussing the ten biggest movies of 20 years ago: the summer of 2005. Aliens! Batman! Other superheroes! Possibly lethal candy! Angelina Jolie! Adam Sandler! Vince Vaughn! Owen Wilson! Steve Carell! Spielberg, Burton, Lucas, Nolan, and more! This installment has it all, with an unus...

The SportsAlcohol dot com conclave assembled to discuss the Oscars for the movie year of 2024: What we'd vote for, what we predict will win, and who we considered SNUBBED, in the big eight categories and beyond. Hear Sara, Marisa, Jeremy, and Jesse talk about Conclave , Emilia Perez , A Complete Unknown , Anora , The Brutalist , and more!

In our annual virtual get-together, the heaviest moviegoers of SportsAlcohol.com's roster discussed the movies on our collective Top 15 list for 2024, including but not limited to: Filming about architecture! Horrible bodies! Frawd marriages! Expressions of horniness! And many more. It's a long one but a good one; the episode also includes our outlier picks that only one person apiece voted for!

Belatedly venturing into a new decade for our summer flashback series, the SportsAlcohol.com crew looks back at the top 10 highest-grossing movies released in the summer of 1984! Recorded way back in the vintage summer of 2024, lost to time, and then recovered just in time for the tail-end of the year, this episode goes deep on mid-80s blockbusters featuring gremlins, ghosts, sports, spaceships, c...

Ten years ago, we did our first 20-years-ago flashback podcast about summer movies. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of these 20th anniversaries, we decided to circle back to 1994 and talk about ten movies that were very much not the ten highest grossers of that summer, including nascent superheroes, mad bombers, beloved and obscure indies, and a couple of natural born killers. Join us for anothe...

It's that time of year again: Time for the good people of SportsAlcohol.com to jump in their exclusively movie-related time machines and travel back 20 years for a look at the summer movies that were on top of the box office in 2004. Tom Cruise breaks bad! Hugh Jackman breaks worse! Michael Moore breaks records! Fox Searchlight puts out not one but two generational indie movies with their own indi...

Some months ago, Nathaniel, Jesse, and Marisa got together to talk about the then-new movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Since then, everyone's lives got real busy and Jesse didn't carve out any time to edit it. But now that Godzilla and Kong have made their way to HBO Max and will presumably remain there in heavy rotation for months, we've decided to belatedly unleash our episode on what stil...

In a follow-up to our recent Oscar special, the SportsAlcohol.com continues their discussion of the 96th Academy Award nominations, covering categories outside the big eight, which means nerdy discussion of music, animation, international features, cinematography, editing, and more!

The 2023-24 Oscar season has finally heading for the end, and the SportsAlcohol.com team has assembled to talk about our PREFERENCES, our PREDICTIONS, and our most treasured SNUBS in the top eight major categories! Place your bets, protect your faves, and listen up as we get our last build-ups and teardowns in on the films of 2023!

We may be arriving a little late with our discussion of the 15 best movies of 2023, but we still beat the Oscars to air! In a long and enthusiastic discussion of our collective favorites, your pals at SportsAlcohol.com take turns waxing rhapsodic over an eclectic group of 2023 movies that we loved, including major auteurs, exciting debuts, special-effects blockbusters, and small-scale indies. It's...

After a three-year hiatus to get our heads right, the SportsAlcohol.com pop-music contingent is back to talk about new discoveries, legacy acts, favorite albums, and more as we go through 2023 in music, featuring Boygenius, Olivia Rodrigo, Caroline Polachek, The National, Belle & Sebastian, and... Joe Jackson?! Join Rob, Sara, Marisa, Jesse, and Jeremy as we try to make sense of our fractured and...

Leapin' lizards! Everyone knows Godzilla is the King of All Monsters, but what this episode pre-supposes is... maybe he's also the King of All Media? With a new Toho Godzilla film in theaters, an American Godzilla movie coming in a few months, a Godzilla-related TV series streaming on Apple, and the big guy fighting the Justice League in the pages of DC Comics, Godzilla fans are, as they say, eati...

Happy Labor day from your pals at SportsAlcohol.com! We got you a podcast episode! Earlier this summer, Ben convened a small panel of labor experts (by which we mean Marisa, Jeremy, and Jesse) to talk about the bumper crop of movies about companies making products. Air , Blackberry , Flamin' Hot , and Tetris all came out within months of each other -- what gives? In this episode, led by a bona fid...

Our annual summer nostalgiafest and re-evaluation continues further into the 2000s, as Marisa, Jesse, Becca, Jeremy, and Ben go through the eye-popping 17-title list of movies that made over $100 million domestic back in the summer of 2003. Superheroes! Pirates! Car chases! Multiple cops on the edge! And... fish?! Take a stroll through the early-to-mid '00s with us and revisit the best and the dre...

It's that time of year again, where the SportsAlcohol.com crew gets together and has a wide-ranging, semi-nostalgic, semi-modern discussion of the biggest summer movies of decades ago. This year, we're kicking off our pair of anniversary episodes with the 30-years-ago version, throwing it all the way back to the summer of 1993, where dinosaurs (of the special-effects variety) and dinosaurs (of the...

With Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny now in theaters and wrapping up Indy's story for good, Marisa, Jesse, and Nathaniel decided to take a look at the whole Indiana Jones saga, starting with the new movie and working our way back through the other entries -- and some ancillary materials courtesy of Indy expert Nathaniel! Last Crusade is impugned and defended! Crystal Skull isn't hated! Templ...

It's Oscar season! Well, for another few days, anyway! In the run-up to the 95th annual Academy Awards, honoring achievements in cinema for the film year 2022, our OSCAR EXPERTS (hint: actually just Sara, Marisa, Jeremy, and Jesse) gathered to talk about who WILL win, who SHOULD win, and, of course, the SNUBS! We're really just talking about our general thoughts on the silliness of the awards comp...

2022 is over, but have you caught up on all of the great movies it had to offer? Maybe not! Five SportsAlcohol.com regulars voted on their 20 collective favorites from 2022, and in this podcast we run through the upper reaches of the list to discuss what movies got to us last year, and why -- including both consensus favorites and outliers that only made one contributor's list! From Irish infighti...

Taking a break from endless movie-watching, the good people at SportsAlcohol.com celebrate another overwhelming year of Peak TV with a Ben-led discussion of their favorite shows in various categories, including workplace, romance, sci-fi, animation, and more! If you're looking for an absolute slew of TV recommendations, and a handful of vicious takedowns, look no further!

Watch out for the cultural impact! Avatar: The Way of Water is finally in theaters -- in fact, it's topped the box office for seven weekends in a row, garnered a Best Picture nomination, and has made over $2 billion worldwide. In light of this stunning failure to attract any audiences or acclaim, your SportsAlcohol.com crew hopped in their submersible and did a deep dive on the films of James Came...

We got a little bit behind editing this one, we admit: Our annual round-up of a dozen-plus indie movies from the summer blockbuster season is dropping closer to the end of the year. But you know what? That works, because this marathon episode includes tons of recommendations that might get lost in the end-of-year awards-movie shuffle. Enjoy our enthusiasm over indie horror, indie whimsy, indie you...