It might be 2024, But we're still talking 2023 with the BAOLIT hosts and a bunch of pod friends, handing out fake awards to the highs, lows, and shoulder shrugs of the year in movies. 

Nate and Zach (and briefly their good friend Lauren) revisit the cinematic highlights of their middle school years with the latest edition of their annual retrospective awards show, The 2003 LOTTIES! 

The BAOLIT buds get ahead on their 2013 Lottie's prep with a double feature of two 2013 Black And White features. 

Films Covered: 
Frances Ha
Nebraska

In celebration of Martin Scorsese's latest release, Killers of the Flower Moon, Zach and Nate discuss (and hand out a few awards to) some of the highlights of the storied director's filmography. 

Longtime on-and-off-pod friend Kapil Easwar joins BAOLIT to talk movies with alternate endings, his new youtube channel, evolving newsroom ethics, their coastal elitism, and Nate's William Hurt obsession.

Featured Films:
-Clue
-Broadcast News
-Election

A BAOLIT double feature of one of 2023's best new movies and an 80s Art-House classic.

Featured Films:
-Past Lives
-Paris, Texas

Zach and Nate talk summer movies in all their endless, sweltering glory, and hand out their new summer-movie-specific awards, The SWEATIES.

Featured Films:
-Stand By Me
-Adventureland
-Mystic Pizza 

BAOLIT takes on the summer movie event of the summer, Barbenheimer! And also a few other summer movies!! Summer!!!

Featured Films:
-Barbie (feat. Lauren Marchioni)
-Oppenheimer
-Mission Impossible: Dead Reckonning (feat. Ivy Olcott) 
-Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Ever find yourself wondering what early 1940s rural Austria and early aughts seedy and sex-crazed New York City have in common? Then this is the episode for you! Zach and Nate exchange two of their respective favorites, Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life and Jane Campion's In The Cut , and the results are totally normal, thanks for asking! 

...In which a multiversal collection of BAOLIT hosts come together to celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and chat about a few other films featuring multiple actors portraying the same character.

Featured Films:
-Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
-Freaky Friday
-I'm Not There
-Synecdoche, NY