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We’re just a few days away from the Oscars! Lets talk movies: Companion (2025), Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and Oscar Nominated Shorts

Plus, I reveal my oscar picks: what I want to win vs. what I think will win (??)

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Seven films as we trudge through this chilly February - It’s My Turn, Devil in the Flesh, Trick (1999), Paddington In Peru, Singles (1992), Choose Me, and Wicked (2024).

Seven films as we wheel through this chilly February: A Fish In the Bathtub, Green Card (1990), Black Box Diaries, Nickel Boys, I’m Still Here (2024), French Kiss (1995), and On The Road (2012).

Thirteen films! The Last Showgirl, Oh, Canada, Hard Truths, The Wild Robot, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Mothers’ Instinct, Sugarcane (2024), Certain Fury, Your Monster, Sundance Film Festival 2025 Online films: Sorry, Baby - Predators (2025) - The Perfect Neighbor - and Presence (2025).

Let’s discuss who’s in the running for the little gold men for 2024 films! To see the full list of nominees, visit oscars.com. The Academy Awards air live on Sunday March 2nd at 7pm EST/4pm PST on ABC.

Seven films as we roll through January - Take Out, Sasquatch Sunset, Monsieur Hire, A Different Man, Starting Over, Intersection, and The Room Next Door.

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The Best Films I Saw in 2024. New. Old. Strange. Challenging. But all great films I’d highly recommend.

12 films including: A Complete Unknown, Babygirl, Nightbitch, Chinese Roulette, Exhibiting Forgiveness, Nosferatu (1922), The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Female Perversions, Nosferatu (2024), A Real Young Girl, Another Country (1984), and Better Man.

The good, the bad… anything I saw, again! October through December 2024, 22 films discussed including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Polyester, Problemista, Vox Lux, After Hours, A Clockwork Orange, While You Were Sleeping, Gattaca, and many more!

Happy Holidays! The Childhood of a Leader, The Spell (1977), Flow (2024), and Juror #2

Let’s do this! Seven films including: Maria (2024), Queer (2024), Joker: Folie à Deux, Speak No Evil (2024), Amos & Andrew, Kraven the Hunter, and The Fire Inside.

Five films! The Bone Collector, Local Hero, The Piano Lesson, Moana 2, and September 5

Eight films! Blitz, The Canyons, Goodbye Lover, Wild Oats, Nutcrackers, Fracture, A Real Pain, and The Order (2024)

New episode! The Antichrist (1974), Conclave, Emilia Perez, Death Wish (1974), A Drama of Jealousy (and Other Things), and Trap (2024)

We’re workin’ through November- seven movies on this episode. The Linguini Incident, Anora, Cashback, I Like It Like That, Losin’ It, Longlegs, and Here (2024).

Hello! I hope you’re doing ok. What the fuck.Lets discuss: The Initiation, Woman of the Hour, Maxxxine, The Visitor, Rest in Pieces, and The Brutalist.

Happy Halloween! Lets discuss all the horror films I watched at the 2024 Coolidge Corner Horror Marathon (Brookline, MA)! Plus, Winona Ryder must stop the devil in Lost Souls (2000)!

All Horror Episode!! Private Parts (1972), The Phantom of the Opera (1998), Strange Darling, The Church (1989), Exorcist: The Beginning, and Smile 2.

Happy Halloween or Spooky Season, whatever you choose to call October - regardless, its a good time to get cozy and watch some horror films! The episode starts with 2024 releases Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, My Old Ass, and It’s What’s Inside. Followed by Demons (1985), The Apprentice (2024), The Changeling (1980), and Witchboard. Boo to you!

Another quarter down, so more movies to talk about that I’ve seen again. Featuring Basic Instinct 2, The Neverending Story, Challengers, Go, Tron: Legacy, Twisters (in 4DX), Pecker, and The Rules of Attraction.

Six films this episode. Get ready for spooky season with some horror films, plus some films by Francis Ford Coppola.

The Substance, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Outsiders, Megalopolis, Apartment 7A, and Oddity.

Spoiler discussion on The Substance at 26:00.

New episode! Let’s start with my time at Twisters: 4DX as an experience in a theater, then talk new-to-me movies: Robot Dreams, Civil War (2024), Speak No Evil (2022), Mute Witness, Rabid Grannies, and Janet Planet. I apologize for all the misspoken words, I was short of breath a few times!

A quick one before go on vacation. I’ll be back in a few weeks! but for now, have a listen! Coraline, Gates of Heaven, The Vourdalak, and The Silent Partner.

Hi there! Six films on this episode: Following (1998), A Tale of Autumn, Lilo & Stitch, Wildcat (2003), The Black Cauldron, and The Man from Elysian Fields

After two and a half years, hundreds of movies… the 100th episode is here! Featuring The Heroic Trio, Kim’s Video, The Cat in the Hat, Borderlands, Blade (1998), and Cuckoo!

Four films on this episode : Gangster Squad, Twisters, The Feeling That The Time for Doing Something Has Passed, and Faye (2024)

A quickie episode, featuring A Quiet Place: Day One, VHS sequel Candyman: Day of the Dead, TV show remake The Mod Squad, and the latest Regal Mystery Movie Sing Sing

New movies, plus old Max! Despicable Me 4, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Kinds of Kindness, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and Fancy Dance

Halfway through the year - what movies got another look in April, May, and June? SLC Punk, Challengers, The Daytrippers, Apollo 13, Star Wars - Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, The Swimmer, Bernie, and more!

Happy July! Four movies this episode: Fast & Furious 6, The Bikeriders, Jack (1996), and Fly Me to the Moon (2024)

The summer movie season is still hot, featuring Hit Man, Inside Out 2, Wish (2023), Touch (1997), Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Remembering Gene Wilder, Thelma (2024), and Monkey Man

June is rollin’ along … we start with Joyce Chopra’s Blonde (2001), then Practical Magic, Young Woman and the Sea, Falling In Love, and In a Violent Nature

Seven films discussed! Chariots of Fire, Bed of Roses, Unhook the Stars, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Moviepass, MovieCrash, Hotel Room, and Poolman!

Warning: There’s a bunch of rambling in this episode to avoid spoiling everything, ha. Evil Does Not Exist, Massacre at Central High, Running on Empty, and I Saw the TV Glow

Three movies about three men who are lovers and fighters (in their own ways). Oscars Best Picture 1996 winner Braveheart, Oscars Best Picture 1996 Nominee The Postman (Il Postino), and the new action/comedy/romance feature The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling. The count: 5,507

Some real variety in this episode… The Dark Backward, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace, Green Border and a visit to the Independent Film Festival of Boston, Who’s Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway?, Cutting Class, and A Beautiful Mind.

Let’s close out April with some fun films: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Challengers, The Bodyguard (1992), Ms .45, and Late Night with the Devil.

We’re back … some new movies, some old: The First Omen, Immaculate, The Italian Job (1969), Valhalla Rising, Night Swim, Men At Work, Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troigros, and The Beast.

Hey! New year, new rewatches! Featuring appearances from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, a couple Oscar nominated/winning films from 2023, Little Women, Cecil B. Demented, Bill & Ted, and More! Don’t forget to visit Cinema5000.com!

Spring has sprung! Backdraft, Lady in the Water, What Planet Are You From?, Memory (2023), Problemista, Stopmotion, and The Boy Friend (1971).

Post-Oscars, we go back to the movies- The Burning (1981), American Symphony, Nimona (2023), Society of the Snow, Perfect Days, Four Daughters, Love Lies Bleeding, Irish Jam, The Crow (1994), Sometimes I Think About Dying, and Imaginary (2024). *Correction* yes, I accidentally introduced American Symphony as American Fiction. Film Watching Note: I mentioned a CONTENT WARNING for Sometimes I Think About Dying - If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org

The 96th annual Academy Awards are done! Lets talk about the ceremony. Winners, losers, and Ken.

Docs and Dune! Featuring: Another Body, 20 Days in Mariupol, Bottoms (2023), and Dune: Part Two. PLUS a pre-Oscars Best Picture special (fizzy!) - error: the central “subject” of Another Body has the name Taylor, not Hannah.

As we close out February, I gave some horror, some action, some comedy, and some Oscar Nominated shorts a look. The Films: Enys Men, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Piranha, Cherry 2000, Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Subject films, Madame Web, Thank God It’s Friday, and Drive-Away Dolls.

Oh boy, a huge catchup for films seen in late January and February. Only 18 films! Sorry, I said 19 on the podcast in error. What movies are they? Miller’s Girl, The Portrait of a Lady, Meet Me in the Bathroom, The Zone of Interest, The Ward, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Morvern Callar, Surviving Desire, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Love Jones, Freejack, Lisa Frankenstein, The Rainbow, The Eternal Memory, Nyad, Maestro (2003), and The Taste of Things

Hello! A number of films, new and old- The Bye Bye Man, Truly Madly Deeply, Drowning by Numbers, Movie 43, All Of Us Strangers. Plus from the Sundance Film Festival, reviews of films from their online screenings: Handling the Undead, Between the Temples, Dig! XX, In the Summers, and Ibelin.

A somewhat long, delirious look at all the nominees and films from 2023 that are now going for Oscar gold. To see the full list, visit oscar.com. The Oscars 2024 will air LIVE SUNDAY MARCH 10 7e/4p on ABC. I apologize for any misspoken titles.

Eight films! Rotting in the Sun, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Poor Things, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Everybody Loves Jeanne, Fallen Leaves, Savage Streets, and American Fiction

Its 2024… so lets get caught up with everything left from 2023 that I saw for the first time, plus what I started watching to be begin the year! (I apologize, I recorded this very late at night so my faculties weren’t so sharp) The movies: Johnny Dangerously, The Color Purple (2023), Body Parts, Afire, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (sorry but the Nightmare band was not good!!), Moonage Daydream, Addicted to Love, Set It Off, Ferrari, Etoile, Dead-End Drive In, Kubrick on Kubrick, Ghosts of Mars, The Iron Claw, Solaris (2002), Kokomo City, Search and Destroy (1995), and Origin (2023)!

Howdy, Happy New Year! Lets talk about how I saw Barbie FIVE TIMES. And some other films. Plus the Coolidge Corner Horror Marathon was attended back in October, so I talk about all the witchery that was had!