The Great Stare Podcast

The legend continues. Today, Anya, Marlon, Tyler, and first-time predictor Cam discuss and debate their predictions for the top 10 highest grossers at this year's summer box office, from the May 1st release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 to the end of August. We also recap the winners and losers from the Spring predictions episode. We'll be back for another installment at the start of the fall...

In today's episode, Cam and Tyler caught up with a longtime friend of the show, the legendary Alex Leyba, multi-hyphenate vlogger and director of The Alex Leyba Movie and its recent sequel, The Alex Leyba Movie II. We discussed one of our favorite films of the decade, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, explored Leyba's journey in directing his films, and stay tuned till the end for a te...

Today, Anya, Ben, Marlon, and Tyler bring back a favorite segment - predicting the top ten highest grossing films of the spring season! If you're playing along at home, we're counting the Spring Season as 1/23/26 (Mercy) to 4/24/26 (Michael) and basing it off worldwide grosses. We hope you enjoy the historic crashout between our beloved hosts over Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft: The...

Welcome Back to The Great Stare: The Return. It is indeed happening again. Cam and Tyler host you on a journey back in time to the great year of 2019, and give our awards for the biggest events in entertainment from the year. We hope you enjoy and hope you feel good as us that for once and for all - we're back.

Our seasonal box office predictions are back! Anya, Ben, Marlon, Tyler, and first time host Ryan discuss and debate the coming movie forecast. Blockbusters such as Deadpool and Wolverine and Inside Out 2 match off with the likes if IF, Twisters, and The Fall Guy. Will the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes promotion gimmicks pay off?

Anya, Ben, and Tyler discuss recent watches such as new releases The Zone of Interest and American Fiction, Sundance 2024 Titles, and older favorites including Haru, Sideways and Silence of the Lambs. Included is a round of Box Office Trivia for the highest grossing Best Picture nominees of each year.

We're back. And better than ever. Join Anya, Ben, Marlon, and Tyler for our favorite episodes, the seasonal box office predictions, and this might be our craziest one yet. Witness the most generational fumble of Tyler's life, see what treacherous movies can we pull out of this wasteland of a season, and finally discover if we want to get him back. This is the most fun we've had with the show in a...

Amidst SAG and WGA strikes, the upcoming theatrical release schedule remains elusive. Anya, Marlon, and Tyler attempt to pick out what movies will rank amongst the current release schedule (Aug. 31st). Hungers Marvel, DC, and Disney are back in the race with animation and horror plays. Who will win the season and who will win the predictions?

In this episode, Cam and Anya complete the tiebreaker round and crown one of them victorious. After, Ben taps in for Cam and goes head to head with Anya to name the highest grossing movie of every year from 1993-2023. Much more to come from this series, we're having a blast!

In this new series, Tyler hosts a game show where Cam and Anya must guess a movie based solely on its box office. It can be a statistical list, a list of grosses, but the rules are all here. We are trying out this new concept and are very excited to get more done! For those of you playing at home, here is the list Cam and Anya were reading off: 1. (2021, WBD, Scifi) 2. (2017, Entertainment Studios...

Anya and Tyler discuss the hugely successful double billing of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The conversation and review covers the highs and lows of the highly anticipated titles. This episode’s thumbnail includes the host’s outfits for the opening weekend of Barbenheimer!

Jonathan from The Film Drunk joins Anya, Ben, and Tyler to discuss current trends in movie news. Cannes 2023 has generated buzz for new movies, leaving speculation for emerging awards titles. The hosts talk upcoming summer releases and comment on the current state of superhero movies in hollywood. Jonathan can be found on Youtube, Twitter, and Letterboxd @thefilmdrunk

Anya, Ben, Marlon, and Tyler bet on the high volume of movies hitting theaters this summer. How will returning franchises fare with star-driven blockbusters, and will superhero movies fare well amongst fatigue? Or, will Grand Turismo take the crown?

After this past awards season closed out, Anya and Tyler immediately looked to the future with the first episode of Awards Corner, the one stop podcast shop for all things Award Season. In the next year, will Barbie clean house? Will A24 repeat their success with Past Lives? And why the hell is Tyler making an argument for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? You'll also get to hear their li...

In the season finale of the long-running Oscar prediction cycle, Tyler and Anya bring it to a close by presenting their final predictions for who will win big at the 2023 Academy Awards (and why it's basically guaranteed to be Everything Everywhere All At Once). We hope you enjoyed our predictions and we will see you very soon, when we start it up all over again.

Anya solo reviews 3 features and 1 short film playing in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, with films from Bi Gan, Celine Song, Mary Helena Clark, and more.

It's been a long time coming. Tyler and Anya break down their finalized picks and predictions for this week's Oscar nominations. Who will get the coveted tenth slot? Who can win, if not Everything Everywhere All At Once or The Banshees of Inisherin? And how many curveballs can we truly expect?

Anya, Ben, Marlon, and Tyler return to break down tonight's biggest loser for the Fall movie season (spoiler alert: it was bad.) and talk about their predictions for the top ten highest grossing movies of the Spring. All the while, Anya and Ben debate over the season's hottest film: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Disclaimer: This episode was recorded last week before the release of Avatar: The Way of Water which both of us have since seen. The Oscars shortlists have also been revealed since then, deeming Everything Everywhere ineligible for VFX, Nope ineligible for Sound, The Batman and RRR ineligible for Score, and X ineligible for Makeup. We didn't have the time to update accordingly and didn't want to s...

Last night the news was revealed Henry Cavill will no longer return as Superman. Tyler and Ben discuss the news and talk about the future of the franchise

Your favorite predictors are back this time with once of the worst line ups to date maybe even the worst. Who knows or even remembers, there was a lot of bad movies we mentioned the last few times we did this. Also some of the audio is a little wonky at the beginning but it improves. Enjoy and thank you!

Full disclosure: this was supposed to out last month. We’re sorry, we’re gonna do our best to get caught up on all the things we missed reviewing this summer. Hope you enjoy

In this episode, Anya and Tyler examine this year's Oscar season and share their predictions for this year's biggest winners and losers. It's going to be an absolute showdown, and we want to help you win your Oscar bets, especially the big kahuna, that just might be going to the hot dog hands movie. Plus, who will prevail in the battle between the naval aviators, the Wakandans, and the blue aliens...

Anya and Ben talk their favorite releases in movies and tv so far this year? Will we do one of these at the end of the year? Who knows! have fun!

In this episode, Cam talks to video content creator Alex Leyba on his feature length culmination to his YouTube channel. The Alex Leyba Movie is available on YouTube right now.