And the Oscar goes to...

This episode is late for the completely unavoidable reason that I didn't know what the date was. This is no-one's fault, except probably Joel's. Please listen to this episode about the movie Lion, in which we do our best to make up for the travesty that was our last episode. This one isn't (as) boring.

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This episode is supposed to be about the film Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams but mostly we talk about which characters from The Simpsons Joel resembles.

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This week we're talking Fences, Denzel Washington's directorial debut, adapted from August Wilson's play of the same name.

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And we're back

After absolutely no break in scheduling whatsoever, we're starting a new series. This second miniseries is looking at the nominees from 2017 (so films released in 2016 - why don't they just do the Oscars in December to stop this confusing mess?) and first on the docket is Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson's return to direction after a 10-year hiatus. Join us as we chat about whether the film is any good (it's not), whether Mel Gibson is the worst (he is) and whether it's cause for celebration that he's back in our homes (it's not).

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We've talked about all the films from the 1995 best picture category and yet we're still doing another episode this season and it absolutely was not a self-indulgent mistake, thank you very much.

If you don't want to listen to this (good instincts) the next season we'll be focusing on the 2017 Oscars slate, celebrating films released in 2016. The first film we'll be looking at is Mel Gibson's Desmond Doss biopic, Hacksaw Ridge.

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And the Oscar goes to... Forrest Gump!

In 1995 the Academy Award for Best Picture was awarded to Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump for some reason. Let's talk about the film and all the ways it's not good. Oh, and Joel says some stuff about how maybe it's not actually terrible but I think he was probably joking.

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Closing out the non winning nominees from 1995, we look at the film that defined the 90s: Pulp Fiction.

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino; it is based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of criminal Los Angeles.

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Today we're looking at Quiz Show, the least well-remembered film from an Oscars slate with some 90s heavy hitters. Does it deserve to be forgotten though? Just how handsome is Ralph Fiennes? And is this the worst Boston accent ever depicted on screen?

Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical film produced and directed by Robert Redford, and written by Paul Attanasio, based on Richard N. Goodwin's memoir Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties. The film chronicles the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the rise and fall of popular contestant Charles Van Doren after the fixed loss of Herb Stempel and Congressional investigator Richard Goodwin's subsequent probe

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S1 E2 Four Weddings and a Funeral

Continuing our look at the best picture nominees from 1995, we turn now to the film that made Hugh Grant a star: Four Weddings and a Funeral. Rain talk is had.

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as they each encounter romance.

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