The Top Five Podcast

All right, don't sit there and act like it never happened to you!!!  You know that there has been something so incredibly funny that you laughed and laughed as you've never laughed before....yes, your stomach hurts, and yes, you might have had to cough and hack all night long...but you seriously did think you might pee in your pants, now, didn't you??? My sisters and I sure do love to laugh - Anni...

Sorry for the two-week delay, Top Five Fans!  I have been crazy busy with work and Co-Host Pruitt has been working on her doctorate.  I am pretty sure we're out of the major busy woods now, so there will be more brand-new Top Five themes coming your way! Meanwhile - if you had forgotten, we ARE getting closer and closer to Episode #50 - a landmark I've only reached one other time, but it's no less...

If our favorite Last Lines of movies didn't get you all excited, then maybe First Lines will.  I loved discussing this with Annie - she was a creative writing major in college and told me that the first line of any creative thing was always the most difficult for her.   But think about it - if that first line is silly, doesn't connect to what you think might be going on, or just leaves you with a...

This week we're returning to a Top Five List from the very beginning of this journey - and it kept getting pushed aside in the importance list, so it was great to get back to this early list and talk about our favorite Alien Horror Films! This show is a total anomaly in The Top Five Podcast - Kris and Annie and NO overlap!  Annie had movies on her list that I didn't have on mine AND that neither o...

OH GOOD LORD!!!  What a week it has been!  My sweet dog passed away on Tuesday and then I got sicker than I don't know what.  So y'all are getting this final Bonus Oscar Episode a tad bit late and definitely after you already know who won what this year. The ceremony itself?  Jimmy Kimmel was, okay, I guess...and maybe the jokes were naughty enough, but I felt like he held his own.  The grouping o...

What, may you ask, is an "Oscar Moment?" Well, it's that performance that you want to watch over and over and over again on YouTube because it just blows your mind. OR - it's the acceptance speech that you watch over and over and over again on YouTube because it makes you laugh every time. OR - it's your very favorite Oscar Host and that one time when she picked on...? OR - it's that funny bit tha...

Hey - it's Oscar Week!!!  (Yeah, we love the Oscars!!!) And Annie and I got together to record three special episodes this week!!  Although frankly, the Oscars are not what they used to be...but I think we always hold out for "this year's show will be better than last year's."  Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't.   We take on three lists this week for three super fun bonus episodes: Surprises...

OH YEAH!!!!!  College Years!!!!  Whether you loved it or hated it yourself, there are certainly some dramatic and hilarious representations of college life in the cinema. Since 1925, college life has been a popular theme in cinema.  It's hard to believe that Harold Lloyd from "The Freshman" had some of the same experiences as some of the characters we are discussing in today's show, but you never...

The idea behind this show was somewhat inspired by that scene in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY when Harry calls Sally to tell her that CASABLANCA is on TV and they watch the last few minutes "together" while on the phone.  Harry's comment about the "best last line of a movie ever," inspired Annie and me to rally around our own favorite last lines of movies. And - as usual - they are not what you think they...

Lucky Lucky Me!  I got to spend some of Super Bowl Sunday with my sister, Annie (who was cheering for Kansas City), and my East Coast Buddy Doug (who was cheering for Philly).  And while KC came out on top of the actual football game, I definitely think I was the big winner on Sunday as the three of us hung out to talk about our favorite Football Films and TV Shows.   This episode might surprise a...

OMG - if you thought the WORST movie sequel episode was a toughie, wait until this one!!! You probably will not be surprised at any of our selections, but Annie and I had a really fun time discussing our favorites.  And, yes, there's a tiny bit of overlap...but we're sisters, what do you want us to do? Annie even remembered seeing some of these movies with me back in the day...which is another rea...

TOYS!!!  Who doesn't love TOYS!!!  Especially Gen-Xers like me and my buddy Heather Zeitzwolfe, who is my co-host today as we talk about our Top Five Favorite Toys from the 1970s. Were you into Barbies?  What about Hot Wheels?  Or you might have enjoyed Lite Brite.  Regardless, we hope you enjoy our reminiscing about our own favorites back when most toys weren't necessarily plugged in and/or requi...

We've been teasing this for weeks/months now, and are so excited that we are FINALLY chatting about our Top Five Favorite VAMPIRE MOVIES!!!! What exactly is the attraction to vampires, anyway?  Is it a sexual thing?  The premise of living forever?  The gore?  The answer to that is yes - it's all of it.  And there's so much urban legend and myth and made-up culture and rules about the whole vampire...

Hopefully, y'all are not getting sick of this Best and Worst series we've got going on...I guess we just wound up down a rabbit hole of sorts, and it's taken off!  But we're having fun with it, so if you don't like it you can send us an email to complain.  We Live for That Shit!!!! Today's episode takes on Movie Sequels - not to be confused with Movie Remakes or Reboots.  The sequel considers the...

Happy New Year - again!  My mastermind/podcasting/vegan accountant/fellow pop-culture/Gen X buddy is back - and that's my gal-pal Heather Zeitzwolfe.  This means - Heartthrobs and Tiger Beat Magazine is back! This week, Heather and I are talking 80's Heartthrobs you might have seen on the cover of Tiger Beat during the 1980s.  Sure, a couple of them possibly carried over from the 70's just a tad,...

There are movies that bring tears to your eyes in a pleasant way - see episode 32 - but then there are tearjerkers that you know if you EVER watch again it will completely and totally suck out the guts of your soul. This is not to say that these are BAD movies - in many, many cases, they are exceptional movies.  But WE, the viewer, have personally had such a strong reaction to the experience of vi...

Yes, we're a little late in posting this but it's mostly because there's been a lot going on in my day job since Veteran's Day happened - but hopefully you were able to catch us LIVE on Instagram that day - Annie, Doug, and Heather helped me out by sharing their Top Five Favorite Movies about Military Veterans - AND we celebrated Annie, who is a US Army Veteran and retired Lt. Colonel.   Now that...

Happy Holidays everyone!!!!  Been trying to get this episode up here for days now but you know how it is - last-minute stuff to do for the holidays, etc. It was way too much fun recording this episode with my sister and I'm just gonna leave it at that!  Happy Holidays everyone - and just know that there's more to come both before and after the New Year!!!!

You know EXACTLY the kind of movie we're talking about today - you know exactly when you're going to cry and what kind of cry it's going to be...and that winds up being totally okay with you.  It's the kind of cry that, once it's over, actually makes you feel kind of good because the emotions are heartwarming tales of true love, personal triumph, or a wealth of other things.   Like...the music swe...

Annie and I grew up with a father who had lived through World War II - and while he was still pretty young in those days, the years after the war were part of my father's formative movie-going years - and my siblings and I hear more than one or two stories about double features, newsreels, and all the things. But remember that we were also one of the first families in the neighborhood to have a VC...

What in the sam hell did we ever do before Netflix?  Well...we watched HBO, we rented a shit-ton of DVD's, and we watched network television (cable?).  Nothing wrong with any of this stuff, but for those of us who got a little bit bored with "Must See TV" and never really got into Friends or Seinfeld, Netflix brought some of the most original and groundbreaking stories ever put into a narrative se...

I've gone LIVE on Instagram before, but mostly with other people and never with THREE guests.  But on Election Day 2022 I got to hang out with Doug, Annie, and Heather and discuss our Top Five Favorite Political and Election Films!!! You're going to see some old favorites that we've discussed before plus some newer films that some of my colleagues had not heard of.  We each shared two films from o...

Did I mention that I LOVE doing this show with my sister?  And if you'll allow me, I also REALLY love when I can do this episode with my sister AND one or more of her kids.  So this week's convo features me, Annie, and Emily and we are breaking down our Top Five FAVORITE Indie Horror Films. If you think about it, most of the scariest and most disturbing horror films are those that come from indepe...

This was a slightly nerve-racking episode - I mean, I'm no sports widow but going toe-to-toe with my swim-coach hubby in sharing our top five favorite sporting comeback moments was quite something!  And actually, it was tons of fun and I do believe hubby will be back for more episodes. You cannot deny the impact of a rock-star-sports-comeback story.  Whether it's baseball, football, swimming, golf...

Ah...the Movie Remake. Or do you prefer the term "Reboot?" Or maybe you're partial to "Re-Imagining?" Regardless of what descriptor you prefer, you know what we're talking about:  take a movie that's already been done and make a new version.  It can be with a more contemporary plot, a reverse in the characters, or...what do they call it..."modern-day retelling..."  Annie and I can both get really...