The Best Pick movie podcast

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky and special guest Abigoliah Schamaun Episode 328: Carry On Cleo Released 24 June 2026 For this episode, we teamed up with Tom's other podcast All British Comedy Explained and welcomed his co-host Abigoliah Schamaun to watch what some consider to be the pinnacle of achievement by the Carry On Team of producer Peter Rogers, director Gerald Thom...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 327: Oscars 2026 Released 16 March 2026 For this episode we blearily assessed the 98th Academy Awards which wrapped up in the wee small hours in the UK. A more considered reaction will follow towards the end of the year when we do our full episode on One Battle After Another. Tom's new podcast: https://podfollow.com/all-british-com...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 326: Oscar Nominations 2026 Released 22 January 2026 For this episode, Tom and John briefly reviewed the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, mere moments after the live-stream ended. Tom's new podcast: https://podfollow.com/all-british-comedy-explained Jess's storytelling theatre show: https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/16-...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 97: Anora Released 21 January 2026 For this episode, we watched the 2024 Best Picture winner Anora , for which Sean Baker picked up a record-setting four Oscars, its fifth going to star Mikey Madison, who triumphed over hot favourite Demi Moore. Along the way we also take in some other films featuring erotic dancers. Tom's new podc...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 325: Christmas Films Released 17 November 2025 For this episode we nominated some favourite (and not-so-favourite) Christmas films, in the categories of Best Classic, Best Modern, Best Oddball and Least Anything. But first – have Tom and John seen Home Alone yet? Tom's new podcast: https://podfollow.com/all-british-comedy-explained...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 324: Singin' in the Rain Released 26 November 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1952 MGM musical Singin' in the Rain , directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly who also starred alongside Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen. Arthur Freed produced and wrote most of the songs alongside composer Nacio Herb Brown. Slight...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 323: 2001 A Space Odyssey Released 29 October 2025 For this episode, we watched Stanley Kubrick's iconic science fiction masterpiece 2001 A Space Odyssey , written by Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke and starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester and the voice of Douglas Rain. It was nominated for four Oscars and won one for...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 18: Annie Hall (1977) recorded live at the London Podcast Festival. Released 26 September 2018. Rereleased 12 October 2025. For this episode – which we are re-running in honour of Diane Keaton – we watched Annie Hall, written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman and directed by Allen, who also starred alongside Diane Keaton, Tony R...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 322: Beau Travail Released 24 September 2025 For this episode, we watched Claire Denis's 1999 story of three men in the French Foreign Legion, drawn in part from Herman Melville's unfinished novella Billy Budd . The film stars Denis Lavant, Michel Subor and Grégoire Colin and Denis also wrote the script along with Jean-Pol Fargeau....

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 321: In the Mood for Love Released 27 August 2025 For this episode, we watched the Wong Kar-wai's modern classic In the Mood for Love , starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It sits at a hugely impressive fifth place on the 2022 Sight and Sound list and has a 92% rating on Rotten T...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 320: Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek's kinoapparatom) Released 30 July 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1929 experimental Soviet documentary Man with a Movie Camera , written and directed by Dziga Vertov. Our version had a soundtrack composed by Michael Nyman. For its age, it's a relatively recent entry to the Sight and Soun...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 319: Vertigo Released 25 June 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, based on the French novel The Living and the Dead by Boileau and Narcejac and with a screenplay credited to Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor. It's a favourite of countless subsequent movie makers...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 318: Tokyo Story Released 28 May 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1953 Japanese classic Tokyo Story, directed by Yasujirō Ozu from a screenplay by Ozu and his frequent collaborator Kogo Noda. This film came in at number 4 on the most recent Sight & Sound critics poll and has often featured in the poll's upper reaches as well a...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 317. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Released 30 April 2025 Today we watched two contrasting episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . We kicked off with an episode from the fifth season, the celebratory romp Trials and Tribble-ations in which the 24th century crew revisits the action of the classic original series episode The Trouble wi...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 316: Oscars 2025 Released 3 March 2025 For this episode, we quickly recapped the 97th Academy Awards which were broadcast in the UK in the early hours of Monday 3 March 2025. BEST PICK – the book is available now from all the usual places, and the paperback is out now. From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman UK...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 315: Jeanne Dielman Released 12 February 2025 For this episode, we watched the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, written and directed by Chantal Akerman and starring Delphine Seyrig. As well as holding a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film unexpectedly topped the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the grea...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 314: Oscar nominations 2025 Released 23 January 2025. For this episode, we quickly reviewed the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards which were announced by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott. Donate today to help victims of the LA fires.  https://mutualaidla.org The Substance Behind the Scenes  https://youtu.be/8H64HNvXrqU Guilty Fe...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 231: Mulholland Drive (REDUX) First released 19 October 2022. Rereleased 17 January 2025 in tribute to David Lynch. We lost David Lynch this week at the age of 78. In tribute to this giant of American cinema, we are rerunning this episode in which we looked at his 2001 slice of LA Gothic Mulholland Drive . Donate today to help vict...

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 96: Oppenheimer Released 18 December 2024 For this episode, we watched the 2023 Best Picture winner Oppenheimer written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. The cast includes Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh and Josh Hartnett, with...

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Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Dwarf-Discovering-TV-1988-1993/dp/1399034944 https://www.waterstones.com/book/red-dwarf-discovering-the-tv-series/tom-salinsky/9781399034944 Get your tickets to the launch event on 3 October here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/952245641347

Twenty years, 16 postcodes, one city. In her debut storytelling show, Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life in no particular order. Each show is drawn from true tales of love and landlords, of mice and men and more, told with help from the audience who will play their part in her odyssey as she moves North, South, East and West, finding out wh...

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Jessica Regan Episode 312. Star Trek The Next Generation: Chain of Command Released 1 May 2024 Today we watched the two-part story "Chain of Command", the tenth and eleventh episodes of The Next Generation 's sixth season, and the last two episodes transmitted before the start of the spin-off show Deep Space Nine . It was written by Frank Abatemarco an...

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Garrett Millerick Episode 311. Star Trek (TOS): This Side of Paradise Released 24 April 2024 "This Side of Paradise" is the 24th episode of the first season of Star Trek , first shown on 2 March 1967. It was written by Jerry Sohl and DC Fontana and directed by Ralph Senensky. Star Trek theme with lyrics https://youtu.be/x8UlFN0kNq4 Variety list of best...

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Joy Wilkinson Episode 310. Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever Released 17 April 2024 Today we watched "The City on the Edge of Forever", the 28th episode of the original Star Trek 's first season. The script is credited to science fiction author Harlan Ellison, and the director was Joseph Pevney. It was first broadcast on 6 April 1967, and – ye...