The Next Best Picture Podcast

Eliza Hittman has been making a name for herself in the independent film worldstarting with her 2013 debut "It Felt Like Love," followed by her 2017 film "Beach Rats" and now she is back with her third film, the much acclaimed "Never Rarely Sometimes Always." The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize and then it screened a few days l...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For this month's Patreon throwback podcast review we are looking back at the 2003 post-apocalyptic horror film "28 Days Later" written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle. With the coronavirus all over the news and the upcomin...

For this week's second podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham, Amanda Spears & Dan Bayer to discuss and review the latest film from Gavin O'Connor starring Ben Affleck as you've never seen him before. "The Way Back" is a sports drama and meta personal story for the film's star dealing with alcoholism. What did we think of the story? How is Ben Affleck? Find out our thoughts and more in our rev...

For Episode 184, I am joined by Michael Schwartz, Lauren LaMagna, Josh Parham & Tom O'Brien. This week we discuss the effects that the Coronavirus is having on the film industry and our favorite "controversial" movies. We also go over the polls, give our reactions to the trailer for "Greyhound" starring Tom Hanks, answer your fan submitted questions and more! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham to discuss and review the latest Pixar movie "Onward" starring Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Octavia Spencer. How does it compare to Pixar's other films? What were our expectations heading in and were they met? Find out all of this and more in our review. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... S...

Benh Zeitlin made his feature filmmaking debut 8 years ago with the indie sensation "Beasts Of The Southern Wild," which earned four Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Since then, he's been hard at work on his follow up film "Wendy," which is a modern and grounded re-telling of the legend of Peter Pan from the perspective of the character W...

For Episode 183, I am joined by Michael Schwartz, Bianca Garner, Josh Parham, Casey Lee Clark & Dan Bayer. Bianca walks us through her first experience at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival plus we discuss what went down at the Cesar awards this week. We also go over the polls, the trailers for "Candyman" and "The High Note," answer your fan submitted questions and more! Check out more on...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Cody Dericks, Danilo Castro, Josh Williams and for the first time ever as a guest here on the show we have Emily Kubincanek from Film School Rejects to discuss Leigh Whannell's 2020 version of "The Invisible Man" starring Elisabeth Moss. It's a horror film that hits so hard, you won't know what hit you! We discuss the film's themes, its filmmakin...

For Episode 182, Josh Parham, Lauren LaMagna, Rebecca Daniel and I go over the poll winners for the Best Oscar winners of the decade in all categories. It was our most voted on poll ever and we really appreciate the participation from all of you. Continuing with that trend, we also announce the long awaited NBP Film Community Nominations for the Best of the 2010s. It's an entire decade's worth of...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by guest Rosa Parra from In Their Own League to discuss the latest Jane Austen adaptation of "Emma" titled "Emma." starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Callum Turner and more. We talk about our experience with the other adaptations, the film's ensemble, it's technicals and more. Please take a listen down below. Check out mor...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL AUDIO COMMENTARY. Please check out the full audio commentary on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture You read that right. Josh Parham, Dan Bayer and I sat down one evening and watched Steven Knight's colossal 2019 misfire titled "Serenity" starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jason Clarke, Diane Lane, Djim...

For Episode 181, we are answering all of your questions on the 92nd Academy Awards and thus saying goodbye to the 2019 Awards Season. Here to join me is Nicole Ackman, Dan Bayer, Casey Lee Clark, Josh Parham & Lauren LaMagna. We give our final thoughts on the evening where we saw "Parasite" make history, what the win means for the future and much more! We also discuss the polls which recap the bes...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Tom O'Brien to discuss the American remake of the 2014 Swedish film "Force Majeure" titled "Downhill" starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Will Ferrell. What do we think of this remake? How does it hold up to the original? What's similar and what's different? We talk about all of this and more in this week's review. Check out m...

Nat Faxon & Jim Rash are Academy Award winning screenwriters for the 2011 film "The Descendants." They made their co-directing debut together with the hit indie film "The Way Way Back." And now, they are back again writing and directing the American remake of the 2014 Swedish film "Force Majeure," now titled "Downhill" starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Will Ferrell. Nat and Jim were kind enough to ta...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Patreon Throwback Reviews on the podcast are back! For this month we are looking back at the 2014 Swedish film "Froce Majeure" to help us get ready for the release of the American remake "Downhill." We discuss the film's themes, its t...

For this month, the Next Best Theatre team has a special Valentine’s Day themed episode for our listeners. Michael Schwartz, Casey Lee Clark, Dan Bayer, Cody Dericks, and myself share our favorite musical theatre love songs. We discuss songs from shows from “Carousel” to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” We finish by talking a bit about our favorite Broadway couples. Happy Valentine’s Day from all of u...

History has been made. It took 92 years but a foreign language film has finally won Best Picture. "Parasite" was the big winner on Oscar night leading the way with 4 wins including Best Picture(!!), Best Director, Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. There's so much more to talk about other than Bong Joon-ho's historic win as Cody Dericks, Dan Bayer, Josh Parham, Lauren La...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Nicole Ackman and Dan Bayer to discuss the latest entry in the DCEU, "Birds Of Prey" starring Margot Robbie, Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and more! How does this film compare to "Suicide Squad" and other films in the DCEU? How is the tone? The performances? We answer all of this and more on this week's podcast review. Check out more on...

Episode 179...The big one. This is our final Oscar predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards episode. We have assembled a large gathering of NBP members to lend their various perspectives and opinions on each category to try and figure out what is going to happen this Sunday. I am joined by Amanda Spears, Casey Lee Clark, Cody Dericks, Dan Bayer, Josh Parham, Nicole Ackman & Tom O'Brien. Together, w...

"Joker" leads this year's Academy Awards with 11 nominations. Two of those nominations are for its Costume Design by Mark Bridges ("The Artist" & "Phantom Thread") and its Makeup & Hairstyling by Nicki Ledermann & Kay Georgiou ("The Irishman" & "Lincoln" respectively). All three of them were kind enough to talk about their work on the film, being nominated for an Oscar, working with an actor like...

After working with shorts for a few years, director Jérémy Clapin made his feature filmmaking debut this year with the Netflix animated film "I Lost My Body." The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier let year where it became the first animated film to win the Nespresso Grand Prize. It has since gone on to win various critics awards and receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature a...

The Next Best Picture Team is back from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and we're here to give you our recap of our experiences and our Top 10 favorite films from the festival. Here to join me in discussing this are Casey Lee Clark (who attended this year for the first time ever) and guest Valerie Complex. The film year for 2020 is looking bright. Here's what you have to look forward to. Check out...

For Episode 178, I know it's a few days late. I know I'm the only one speaking (only the second time this has happened in over three years). And yes, I know it's barely over 30 minutes long. But dammit, I'm still here! Coming to you live from mountains of Sundance, I found a quiet room and some time to record my thoughts on the DGA and where the Best Picture race currently stands with "Parasite" a...

For this week's main podcast review, I travel across the seas to England with my friend Bianca Garner to review the latest film from filmmaker Guy Ritchie. After dipping his toes in bigger blockbuster films, he's back with "The Gentlemen" starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant, Michelle Dockery and more. What did we think? Is this return to the gangster genre for Ritchie just wha...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Last month gave us the gift that is Tom Hooper's film adaptation of "Cats." Naturally....there were a lot of things wrong with it. But where did most of those problems stem from? Well, for this month's Next Best Theatre Podcast, mysel...