The Next Best Picture Podcast

"Decision To Leave" is one of the year's most buzzed-about films ever since its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. In the much-anticipated follow-up film to "The Handmaiden," writer/director Park Chan-wook has crafted a femme fatale romance with his usual quirky humor, twists, and precise filmmaking. He won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film has now been sel...

For Episode 314, I am joined by Amy Smith, Josh Parham & Will Mavity. For this week's show, we are taking a full audience Q&A with questions submitted from the NBP Community throughout the episode. Topics include the continuation of the 2022 New York Film Festival (NYFF), the Oscar races for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Documentary Feature, Best Original Score, Song, and more! We also go over...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Zoe Rose Bryant, Dan Bayer, Tom O'Brien, and guest Murtada Elfadl. Together we're reviewing the newest film from director Todd Field after a sixteen-year absence, "TÁR," starring Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner & Mark Strong. The film has spurred many conversations around its themes about can...

"Triangle Of Sadness" is one of the year's most entertaining films. After winning the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, audiences are finally getting the chance to experience Ruben Östlund's scathingly vicious takedown of the rich and powerful in his first English-language film. One of the many reasons why the film works as well as it does is because of the character Abigail, played by...

For Episode 313, I am joined by Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Will Mavity. For this week's show, we are talking about the beginning of the 2022 New York Film Festival (NYFF), where "White Noise" fits into the Oscar race, and Danielle Deadwyler's chances to crack the Best Actress lineup for her performance in "Till." We also give our reactions to the trailers for "Bones And All," "Aftersun," and "Raymon...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham & Dan Bayer. Together we're reviewing the newest film from Nicholas Stoller, "Bros," starring Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Harvey Fierstein, Ts Madison, Monica Raymund, Guillermo Díaz, Guy Branum, Amanda Bearse, Jim Rash & Bowen Yang. The first major studio film with an all-gay cast, the romantic comedy, written by Stoller and Eich...

"God's Creatures" is the first time filmmakers and frequent collaborators Sales Davis and Anna Rose Holmer share directorial credit on a film. Following their previous film, "The Fits," the duo are one of the most exciting pairs working in the field today, and that continues with this psychological drama that premiered earlier this year at Cannes. Davis and Rose Holmer were kind enough to talk wit...

For this week's second podcast review, I am joined by Sara Clements, Josh Parham, Eve O'Dea & Dan Bayer. Together we're reviewing the latest film from director Andrew Dominik Wilde, "Blonde," starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel & Julianne Nicholson. The much-anticipated (or, in some cases, dreaded) fictional biopic film on Marilyn Monroe is finally streaming on Netf...

For Episode 312, I am joined by Lauren LaMagna, Josh Parham, Nadia Dalimonte & Will Mavity. For this week's show, we are previewing the beginning of the 2022 New York Film Festival (NYFF), discussing Michelle Williams' switch from Best Supporting Actress to Best Actress for "The Fabelmans," talking about the Best International Feature Film Oscar race, and giving our reactions to the trailers for "...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Ema Sasic, Josh Parham, Eve O'Dea & Danilo Castro. Together we're reviewing the latest film from Olivia Wilde, "Don't Worry Darling," starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, Chris Pine & Olivia Wilde herself. Steeped in behind-the-scenes controversy where many don't know what's real or not (much like the lead cha...

The 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held last week at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, on September 12th. Unfortunately, I missed watching the show live because I was at the Toronto International Film Festival, but I wouldn't miss the chance to podcast about the show and its winners for the world. Here to join me to talk about everything that happened, including so...

"Goodnight Mommy" is a remake of the 2014 Austrian horror film of the same name and stars Naomi Watts in the lead role. The film is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Director Matt Sobel was kind enough to spend a few moments talking with us about his work on the film, including how he came on board the project, working with Naomi Watts, and what it was like having to live up to the origin...

For Episode 311, it's a big one as I am joined by Nicole Ackman, Dan Bayer, Amy Smith, Josh Parham & Tom O'Brien. After taking a week off due to the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) we're back to give you all a massive update on the Oscar race with a rundown of all of the films we saw at TIFF. We also discuss the recent Academy news regarding the 95th ceremony, the trailers for "The...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Lauren LaMagna, Josh Parham & Cody Dericks. Together we're reviewing the latest film from Gina Prince-Bythewood, "The Woman King," starring Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim & John Boyega. A historical action epic set in Africa featuring strong, powerful, Black women in the lead roles is something you do not see coming out of t...

"See How They Run" is one of the more impressive directorial debuts from 2022. Director Tom George and screenwriter Mark Chappell are a match made in heaven as they take the "Whodunnit" genre and flip it on its head with a tribute to the work of Agatha Christie that is a deceptively modern, meta, and vastly entertaining murder mystery in its own right. Tom was kind enough to spend some time talkin...

"God's Country" had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive notices for its direction, writing, and lead performance from Emmy Award-winning actress Thandiwe Newton ("Westworld"). Director and co-writer Jullian Higgins was kind enough to spend some time talking with me about the film's themes, working with Thandiwe, and more. We hope you will check out the...

"Speak No Evil" had its world premiere, digitally, at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it shocked and terrified audiences with its dark humor, which grows more sinister and more threatening until the cringe comedy is completely erased, and all that is left is stomach-churning horror. One of the stand-out films from the festival, it's been playing in limited release in New York and Los Angele...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Dan Bayer, and together we do our best to avoid spoilers and talk about one of the best horror films of the year, Zach Cregger's "Barbarian" starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård & Justin Long. Go into this one as blind as humanly possible, then come back and listen to our review, which we recorded minutes after watching it in the theater. W...

For Episode 310, I am joined by Tom O'Brien, Dan Bayer, and guest Jorge Don Birnham. This is an interesting podcast because this is a series of conversations conducted over the Labor Day weekend while I was at the Telluride Film Festival with Jorge. He and I bookend the podcast with our drives to and coming from Telluride. In between, I talk with Tom on two separate occasions about his experience...

"Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul" premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received good notices for Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown's satirical performances as a husband and wife team running a modern-day evangelical church. The two of them were kind enough to spend a few minutes chatting with us, followed by another brief conversation with the film's director, writer,...

For Episode 309, I am joined by Josh Parham, Cody Dericks & Will Mavity. Today, we're giving our final preview for the 2022 Venice International Film Festival, revealing some of our first early Oscar Predictions, and giving our reactions to the trailers for "White Noise," "Empire Of Light," "The Inspection," and "TÁR." We also go over the polls, answer your fan-submitted questions, and more. It's...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Amy Smith, Josh Parham & Daniel Howat. Together, we're reviewing the latest film from director George Miller, "Three Thousand Years Of Longing," starring Tilda Swinton & Idris Elba. The film premiered out of competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival and is following up the biggest success of his career with the critically acclaimed and Osca...

"Breaking" premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received strong notices for the performances by the cast, John Bodega, Nicole Beharie, and the late Michael K. Williams. Director Abi Damaris Corbin and her co-writer, Kwame Kwei-Armah, sought to tell the tragic true story of former veteran Brian Brown-Easley and looked at many other tension-filled, single-location thri...

The ballots for the 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been handed in. With the Creative Arts Emmy Awards taking place during the Telluride Film Festival and then the Primetime Emmy Awards occurring during the Toronto International Film Festival (on September 12th, 2022), we decided to record our winner predictions early. Joining me for this free full-length podcast episode I have Nadia Dalimo...

"The Dropout" was one of the most talked-about shows of the year with its mesmerizing, transformative performance from Amanda Seyfried in the lead role of Elizabeth Holmes. One of the standout episodes from the show was episode 6, "Iron Sisters." The director of that episode, Francesca Gregorini, is nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie at the year's Primet...