Your Pick

This week, the hottest New Year’s Eve party has everything: fancy dresses, cocktails, romance, exquisite sound design, unsettling power dynamics, poisoned mushrooms, hallucinations, and of course, Welsh rarebit with a poached egg on top (not too runny). Geneva and Tatum salute the tremendous performances of Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps as two stubborn people trying to make their unconventiona...

This week, a husband and wife step into an unsettling world of forbidden knowledge and sexual fantasy. Will they be able to find their way back to each other? Why does Tom Cruise keep flashing his medical license like it’s a police badge? And why on earth does this movie take place at Christmas? Tatum and Geneva marvel at the magnetic performances, gorgeous cinematography, and dreamlike logic of S...

This week, we kick off our selection of unconventional holiday movies with a rom-com that features some of our favorite activities: Christmas tree decorating, exchanging presents, icy meet-cutes with a handsome stranger, and lying about being engaged to a coma patient so you can celebrate the holidays with his family. Hey, it sounds worse than it is! Sandra Bullock shines in one of Geneva’s favori...

This week, Macauley Connor wants a story. C.K. Dexter Haven wants a second chance. Tracy Lord wants everyone to stop calling her a goddess, but since she is played by Katherine Hepburn, this is basically impossible (or is it?). Pull on your riding boots and raise your champagne glass as Tatum and Geneva celebrate one of the wittiest comedies of Golden Age Hollywood, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)....

Pop quiz, hot shot: you're a first-time director handed a spec script with an incredible action premise. Your star is a young heartthrob looking to shed his comedy persona. His co-star is an unknown actress with megawatt charm. You have budgets to consider and rewrites to manage, and somehow in the midst of that, you have to figure out how to make a city bus fly. What do you do? Find out as Geneva...

This week we toss aside our heavy artillery and turn to science and the strength of the human spirit in an attempt to destroy one of the most formidable monsters of all time. Join us as we dive into the depths of one of cinema’s most long standing franchises with our discussion of Japan’s most recent entry, GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023). Is this the best Godzilla film in decades? We may not be informe...

This week, we journey to an isolated community where members live in constant fear of the creatures inhabiting the surrounding woods. Questions abound: why is this cast so stacked? Who thought Adrian Brody’s character was a good idea? How great are Joaquin Phoenix and Bryce Dallas Howard? And is this movie the beginning of M. Night Shyamalan’s downward spiral, or a misunderstood masterpiece? Grab...

Hello faithful Your Pick listeners! Geneva and I are ecstatic to be back! Before returning to our standard format, we thought it would be fun to catch you all up on what we've been watching the past few months. We hope you enjoy! Geneva: Ninotchka (1939) Femme (2023) Roxanne (1987) Civil War (2024) Spider-Man (2002) Spider-Man 2 (2004) The English Patient (1996) All the King's Men (1949) Challenge...

Hello loyal listeners! As life has become very busy lately, Geneva and I have decided to take a short break from recording podcast episodes. This is not an end to the podcast, it is just a temporary pause and we very much so look forward to communing with you all again soon! In the meantime, please feel free to go back and listen to some of our older episodes. Happy movie watching! Love Geneva and...

Today we discuss what happens when you send a bunch of queer teenagers to a conversion therapy camp. Spoiler alert: they don't become any less gay! Join us as we dive into the details of Jamie Babbit's cult classic, lesbian coming-of-age film "But I'm a Cheerleader" (1998). Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our Instagram page! (@yourpickpod)   Follow Ge...

This week, an idealistic journalist and a gangster’s moll fall in love via political philosophy. Geneva fangirls over the award-winning comedic talents of Judy Holliday in her pick, a vintage rom-com that’s part Pygmalion, Legally Blonde, and part Washington D.C. tourism ad: BORN YESTERDAY (1950). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our I...

This week, WITNESS US!!! Grab your chrome spray and strum your doof-guitar, because Tatum and Geneva are discussing the insane production process, iconic performances, and breathtaking action of George Miller’s dystopian masterpiece, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our Instagram page! (@yourpickpod)   F...

This week, we venture into the strangely well-lit Paris catacombs to encounter something truly horrifying: Gerard Butler’s singing voice. Is this movie a musical disaster? A campy delight? Somehow both at the same time? Geneva and Tatum go deep on their love/hate relationship with Joel Schumacher’s maximalist, inept, and yet extremely entertaining film THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004). Join us! Lin...

This week we discuss our thoughts on the 2024 Oscars Ceremony. Did Oppenheimer and Poor Things deserve all of their wins? How often did we cringe? How often did we smile? Will Ryan Gosling's "I'm Just Ken" performance go down in Oscars history? Join us! Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our Instagram page! (@yourpickpod)   Follow Geneva on Letterboxd (G...

This week, the sci-fi nerdiness levels are off the charts as Paul Atreides faces the Gom Jabbar , the Shai-Hulud , and the Tahaddi Challenge on his journey to become the Kwisatz Haderach . Charlotte Rampling gives a masterclass in eye acting; Rebecca Ferguson does The Voice; and Jason Momoa plays his most difficult role yet: a man without a beard. Tatum and Geneva celebrate the epic scale and intr...

This week, lock up your husbands and hide your whisky, because Mavis Gary is coming to town! Charlize Theron gives an all-time performance as a former high school queen bee trying to win back her happily married ex-boyfriend in Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody’s darkly comic film YOUNG ADULT (2011). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our In...

This week, we’re hitting the open road and celebrating female friendships through the story of an accidental crime spree that becomes a journey of empowerment. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis give powerhouse performances as best friends turned outlaws in Ridley Scott’s THELMA & LOUISE (1991). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our Ins...

This week, an anklet, an insurance policy, and the smell of honeysuckle can lead to only one thing: Murder! Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck sizzle, Edward G. Robinson shines, and Billy Wilder explores the dark underbelly of the American dream in his classic film noir, DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1941). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our In...

This week, it's not easy growing up in Oakland. Today's film covers police violence, racial tensions, toxic masculinity, and a broken legal system. But it also features friendship, humor, hope, and an unexpected musical number. Tatum and Geneva dive into a discussion of Carlos Lopez Estrada’s beautifully told, massively underrated film BLINDSPOTTING (2018). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email...

This week, the Oscar nominations are out and we have THOUGHTS! Tatum and Geneva dive deep on the unusually strong list of nominees, while also discussing some snubs, surprises, and honorable mentions from an incredible year of film. We get into our personal top 10’s for 2023, that egregious Greta Gerwig omission, our wildly different opinions on Oppenheimer, and much more. Join us! Link in bio. Fe...

This week, turns out that you can’t fight a tidal wave! Gather your golf clubs and secure your igneous rocks, because Tatum and Geneva are discussing the screwball insanity of Peter Bogdanovich’s comic masterpiece, WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our Instagram page! (@yourpickpod)   Follow Geneva on Letter...

This week, Tatum and Geneva mix things up with a discussion of a new release! A film adaptation of the Broadway hit based on Alice Walker’s novel, THE COLOR PURPLE (2023) explores suffering, resilience, strength, and love among black women in early 1900s Georgia. Come for the dazzling musical numbers, stay for the powerhouse performances by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and...

This week, the podcast celebrates its one-year anniversary! Tatum and Geneva have decided to commemorate the occasion the best way we know: by summoning a mysterious arboreous giant, who will challenge a young man to a chivalric journey of mental and spiritual awakening. That’s right, we’re talking about David Lowry’s brilliant and gorgeous adaptation of the classic Arthurian poem, THE GREEN KNIGH...

This week, the Christmas season continues with Geneva’s pick: Whit Stillman’s witty, Jane Austen-inspired satire about rich kids talking in rooms, METROPOLITAN (1990). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to follow our Instagram page! (@yourpickpod)   Follow Geneva on Letterboxd (GenevaW) Follow Tatum on Letterboxd (Tatum_Y)   Credits: Our...

This week, we keep the Christmas spirit going with a dreamy, romantic period drama featuring the four little words every woman wants to hear: “Flung out of space.” Geneva swoons over the vintage costuming and Tatum celebrates the brilliance of Cate Blanchett in our discussion of Tatum’s pick, CAROL (2015). Join us! Link in bio. Feel free to email us at yourpickpod@gmail.com and don't forget to fol...