Better Picture
Paige and Alexi break down the Best Picture nominees for every year's Academy Awards, and decide which one the Academy should have picked instead.
Kevin Costner Redeemed! (1991)
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Movies:
Bugsy - Barry Levinson
The Prince of Tides - Barbra Streisand
Beauty and the Beast - Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
JFK - Oliver Stone
The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme
Kevin Costner's Beautiful Romance (With Himself)
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Movies:
Awakenings - Penny Marshall
The Godfather Part III - Francis Ford Coppola
Ghost - Jerry Zucker
Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese
Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner
The End of an Era / More of the Same (1989)
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Movies:
My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan
Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson
Born on the Fourth of July - Oliver Stone
Dead Poets Society - Peter Weir
Driving Miss Daisy - Bruce Beresford
An Apology to Rain Man
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Movies:
The Accidental Tourist - Lawrence Kasdan
Mississippi Burning - Alan Parker
Dangerous Liaisons - Stephen Frears
Working Girl - Mike Nichols
Rain Man - Barry Levinson
Holly Hunter Appreciation Episode (1987)
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Movies:
Hope and Glory - John Boorman
Fatal Attraction - Adrian Lyne
Moonstruck - Norman Jewison
Broadcast News - James L. Brooks
The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci
The Mission, Which is Convincing You Not to Watch The Movie of the Same Name (1986)
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Movies:
The Mission - Roland Joffé
Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen
Children of a Lesser God - Randa Haines
A Room with a View - James Ivory
Platoon - Oliver Stone
Jack Nicholson's Worst Performance (1985)
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Movies:
Prizzi's Honor - John Huston
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Hector Babenco
The Color Purple - Steven Spielberg
Witness - Peter Weir
Out of Africa - Sydney Pollack
One Win After Another!!!! (2025)
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Movies:
F1 - Joseph Kosinski
Frankenstein - Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet - Chloe Zhao
Train Dreams - Clint Bentley
Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier
The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonça Filho
Marty Supreme - Josh Safdie
Sinners - Ryan Coogler
Bugonia - Yorgos Lanthimos
One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson
White Lotus Star Wins an Oscar
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Movies:
A Passage to India - David Lean
A Soldier's Story - Norman Jewison
Places in the Heart - Robert Benton
The Killing Fields - Roland Joffé
Amadeus - Miloš Foreman
The Right Stuff...Somewhat
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Movies:
The Dresser - Peter Yates
Tender Mercies - Bruce Beresford
The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan
The Right Stuff - Philip Kaufman
Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks
Childhood Classics and Political Controversies
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Movies:
Tootsie - Sydney Pollack
Missing - Costa-Gavras
The Verdict - Sidney Lumet
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg
Our Top 50 of 2025!
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This was recorded a while ago, we know the Oscar nominations have since been announced!
The WORST movies of 2025.
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Our least favorite movies of 2025, and what on earth was wrong with them.
Reagan's America Gets Awkward About Communism
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Movies:
Atlantic City - Louis Malle
On Golden Pond - Mark Rydell
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg
Reds - Warren Beatty
Chariots of Fire - Hugh Hudson
It's the 80s!
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Movies:
Tess - Roman Polanski
Coal Miner's Daughter - Michael Apted
Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
The Elephant Man - David Lynch
Ordinary People - Robert Redford
Breaking Away from the 70s
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Movies:
Breaking Away - Peter Yates
Norma Rae - Martin Ritt
Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
All That Jazz - Bob Fosse
Robert Benton - Kramer vs Kramer
A Reconvening of the DeNiro Fan Club
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Movies:
Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty
An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky
Coming Home - Hal Ashby
Midnight Express - Alan Parker
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Star Wars Changes The Movies
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Movies Discussed:
Julia - Fred Zinnemann
The Turning Point - Herbert Ross
The Goodbye Girl - Herbert Ross
Star Wars - George Lucas
Annie Hall - Woody Allen
Is Talia Shire the OG Nepo Baby?
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Movies:
Bound for Glory - Hal Ashby
All the President's Men. - Alan J. Pakula
Network - Sidney Lumet
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
Rocky - John G. Alvidsen
Cuckoo for Nicholson
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Movies:
Nashville - Robert Altman
Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet
Jaws - Stephen Spielberg
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Miloš Forman
DeNiro Debut
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Movies:
The Towering Inferno - John Guillermin
The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
Lenny - Bob Fosse
Chinatown - Roman Polanski
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
A Touch of Something Deeply Unclassy
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Movies:
A Touch of Class - Melvin Frank
American Graffiti - George Lucas
Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman
The Exorcist - William Friedkin
The Sting - George Roy Hill
Alexi Saw The Godfather!
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Movies:
The Emigrants - Jan Troell
Deliverance - John Boorman
Sounder - Martin Ritt
Cabaret - Bob Fosse
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
Return to Tradition
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Movies:
Nicholas and Alexandra - Franklin J Schaffner
The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanavitch
A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
Fiddler on the Roof - Norman Jewison
The French Connection - William Friedkin
That 70s Show!
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Movies:
M.A.S.H. - Robert Altman
Airport - George Seaton
Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson
Love Story - Arthur Hiller
Patton - Franklin J. Schaffner
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Movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill
Hello Dolly - Gene Kelly
Z - Costa-Gavras
Anne of the Thousand Days - Charles Jarrott
Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger
Oscar Party!
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Movies:
A Complete Unknown
Emilia Perez
I'm Still Here
Wicked
Dune Part II
Nickle Boys
Conclave
The Substance
The Brutalist
Anora
Barbra Streisand, Personal Hero
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WOW is this episode dated. Our bad...more coming soon, though.
Movies:
Romeo and Juliet
The Lion in Winter
Rachel Rachel
Funny Girl
Oliver (Winner)
Some Greats! And Doctor Dolittle
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Movies:
Doctor Dolittle
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night
Happy New Year
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Paige and Alexi break down their favorite movies of the year. There are a lot.
Who's Afraid of Giving This Movie A F***ing Oscar???
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Movies:
Alfie - Lewis Gilbert
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming! - Norman Jewison
The Sand Pebbles - Robert Wise
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe - Mike Nichols
A Man For All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann
Ancient Episode Unearthed (sorry)
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Movies:
Ship of Fools - Stanley Kramer
Doctor Zhivago - David Lean
A Thousand Clowns - Fred Coe
Darling - John Schlesinger
The Sound of Music - Robert Wise
Two Musicals at War
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Movies:
Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis
Becket - Peter Glenville
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins - Robert Stevenson
My Fair Lady - George Cukor
Big News: Paige Likes A Western
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Movies:
How The West Was Won - Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Lilies of the Field - Ralph Nelson
Cleopatra - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
America America - Elia Kazan
Tom Jones - Tony Richardson
Lawrence of Arabia Queerbaiting??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] [jk]
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Movies:
Mutiny on the Bounty - Lawrence Milestone
The Music Man - Morton DaCosta
The Longest Day - Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
To Kill A Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan
Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean
WE'RE BACK (sorry!)
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Movies:
Fanny
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
West Side Story
Happy Sixties, People!!
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Movies:
The Alamo - John Wayne
The Sundowners - Fred Zinnemann
Sons and Lovers - Jack Cardiff
Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks
The Apartment - Billy Wilder
Anatomy of a Movie
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After a long break (sorry, grad school) we are finally back!
Movies:
The Nun's Story - Fred Zinnemann
The Diary of Anne Frank - George Stevens
Room at the Top - Jack Clayton
Anatomy of a Murder - Otto Preminger
Ben Hur - William Wyler
Gigi: The Scariest Movie to Win
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Movies:
Separate Tables - Delbert Mann
The Defiant Ones - Stanley Kramer
Auntie Mame - Morton DaCosta
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks
Gigi - Vincente Minnelli
Year 30
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Movies:
Sayonara - dir. Joshua Logan
Peyton Place - dir. Mark Robson
Witness for the Prosecution - dir. Billy Wilder
12 Angry Men - dir. Sidney Lumet
The Bridge on the River Kwai - dir. David Lean
