A Take on the Academy

We warned you we'd be back.  Season 2: The Second Wave begins Monday, September 6.   

Interested in the Oscars this year!?!?  Yeah...nobody really was....but Spro and Lee came together anyway, just to spite you!!  The boys share their hopes and predictions, opinions and secret desires as they discuss the underwhelming filmic year that was 2020.   

Originally, Spro and Lee planned this to be a nice quiet reunion to record a "Year-in-Review" episode. Instead, these turkeys turned out a two-part episode that totaled over four hours of recordings (don't worry...Spro edited).  The boys talk about COVID's impact on the industry, analyze the Academy's woke new rules, try to answer some tough viewer questions, and humbly admit to all their season one screw-ups. Enjoy!     

Spro and Lee cordially invite you to the Season One Finale - Best Picture of 1979. Their friend, Laurence, stops in to help the right the wrong that was "Kramer vs. Kramer".

Emily (the new mommy!!) returns to round out "The Quickie Trilogy". This time, the old friends discuss the Best Director Oscar of 2002, an award shamelessly given to a man who couldn't attend the ceremony to accept as he is wanted for rape in the United States. That man's name is Roman Polanski.  

Spro is finally granted a platform upon which to spout his anti-Stone rhetoric. This week, Emma and La La Land take some beatings and the Best Actress Oscar of 2017 gets passed on to a more deserving artist. 

The boys welcome back their old friend, Emily, for the second of three Quickies. In this episode, the three will strip disgraced Hollywood darling, Kevin Spacey, of his 1999 Best Actor win for American Beauty, and give the award to someone who isn't persona non grata.  

Spro and Lee go back forty years to look at the Best Picture race of 1980 when Ordinary People won over Lynch's The Elephant Man and Scorsese's Raging Bull, among others.   

Spro, Lee and special guest Emily look at the Best Picture of 1999 ("Shakespeare in Love") and because it is Harvey Weinstein's baby, they rewrite history to reward the award to a film without a monster behind the scenes...that they know of... 

Spro and Lee look at the Animated Films of 2009, and find one better suited to be labeled "The Best" rather than Pixar's UP which is quite, under intense scrutiny, a scotch-taped mess. Could the first black princess take the throne with PRINCESS AND THE FROG? Or is it a more hands-on film like THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX or CORALINE?