Made for just $1.9M, director Todd Field's "In the Bedroom" is by far the smallest-budget film in the Academy Award's 2001 slate for Best Picture. But, led by powerhouse performances from Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek, its dramatic punch just might be most powerful.

In this episode, Mike and Brian dive into the movie's best directing and writing moments, talk trivia and wax philosophical about grief, murder and cinematic revearsals.

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Great Scott! A special Facebook Live bonus episode! This is heavy!

This week, Mike and Brian skateboard into the studio to talk about director Robert Zemeckis' 1985 time travel classic, "Back to the Future," starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. They get into trivia, debate the place of "popcorn" movies in cinema and smile wide for the camera (underneath their masks).

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If you like "Downtown Abbey," you'll love "Gosford Park" -- at least, you should, seeing as how the TV drama was originally conceived as a spinoff of Robert Altman's Academy Award-nominated film. 

In this episode, Mike and Brian dig into the 2001 Best Picture nominee, debate its thematic intentions and consider its place among the top films of 2001 -- plus, trivia, Best Directing and Writing Moments, and Keep It or Kick It.

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In David Lynch's 2001 surrealist masterpiece, "Mulholland Drive," dream and reality collide. But is the result transcendent ... or just weird for weird's sake?

In this special bonus episode, Mike and Brian explore the movie's many mysteries through their Questions Three, dive into trivia and critics' reviews, then gush over Naomi Watts. 

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The first musical nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture in 10 years, "Moulin Rouge" is not your grandfather's song-and-dance film. Instead, director Baz Luhrmann's approach is hyper-sensory, supercharging raw enthusiasm with modern visual effects.

Recording from the center of the bohemian world (in Florida's WNZF Studios, of course), Mike and Brian discuss whether that vision works well enough to keep the film as one of the top 5 of 2001.

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Mike and Brian are joined by filmmaker Aleem Hossain, director of "After We Leave," which won Best Sci Fi Feature Film at Sci Fi London 2019, to revisit Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."

- How does the movie hold up?
- How have kids' movies changed in the past 40 years?
- And what are Aleem's top 5 Best Picture contenders of all time? 

All that and more in this Best Picture Throwback bonus episode!

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What was the best film of 2000?

In this miniseries finale, Mike and Brian recap the year that was, rank the Academy's picks for Best Picture, kick the titles that don't belong and offer their own top fives. 

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Digital worlds, real lions and bloody decapitations -- are you not entertained!?

Director Ridley Scott's $106 million swords and sandals epic, "Gladiator," won Best Picture of 2000 and earned Russell Crowe a Best Actor award, but does it hold up? Mike and Brian decide whether to keep it or kick it as one of the the year's five best films, go deep into trivia and discuss why it's fun (and unnecessary?) to watch violence and bloodshed onscreen. 

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Tom Hanks is directed once again by Robert Zemeckis, this time on a desert island. Hanks was nominated for best actor, and Mike and Brian agree it's one of his best performances. Some critics said it was good, not great. Why? The iconic moment is, of course, the skinnified Tom Hanks breaking down over an inanimate object: Wilson the volleyball. In this episode, trivia galore, plus Farley awards and Golden Takes.

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Beloved fairy tale, "Chocolat" earned five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture, following its release in 2000 -- but what was it about this movie that got people feeling all gooey inside? 

In this episode, Mike and Brian talk about the power of happy endings, read listeners' favorite Johnny Depp performances and ask the question: Did director Lasse Hallström's two-year Best Picture run (1999-2000) mark the end of a stylistic era for the Oscars?

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