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After dedicating much of the last two+ months to the Academy Awards, we finally have reached our finish line. The 95th Oscars awarded Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Picture an 6 other awards. All Quiet on the Western Front was the other big winner of the night as well. Joining Dakota and Rachel to recap the winners, review Jimmy Kimmel and discuss everything that happened during the show is Todd Pengelly critic at For Reel and last heard on episode 224: A24 Retrospective – A Most Violent Year.

For an update on episode 229: Oscars 2023 - Oscar Predictions, Dakota went 18/23 and Rachel went 12/20, and our Bonus Episode: Oscars 2023 - Oscar Draft Brodie got 9 points, Alex got 5 points, Dakota got 4 points and Rachel got 2 points.

If you're not bored of Oscar coverage yet, read our blog of if Dakota and Rachel were Oscar voters and could pick any movies they wanted, who would they award?

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We have another fun bonus episode and if you are either a Spotify or YouTube subscriber you'll also get the video for this show. Brodie Cotnam and Alex Watson join Rachel and Dakota as they have an Oscar Draft. Now you're probably wondering what an Oscar draft is, an idea inspired by the now defunct excellent show First Round Flick, basically you pick a movie nominated at the Oscars and for every award it gets that gets the picker one point. Whoever has the most points, wins!

Dakota's Team

Rachel's Team

Brodie's Team

Alex's Team

Tune in after the Oscars to see who won!

Watch Brodie's short film The Gift that he wrote and follow him on Twitter.

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We finished going through all the Best Picture nominees over the last month and it's time to put our money where our mouths are. Dakota and Rachel run through all the categories and pick who they want to win and who they think will win. This isn't all the great Oscar coverage as in a few days a bonus video podcast will go up where we do an Oscar draft, and there will also be another If We Were Oscar Voters blog post where we share our snubs. 

Listen to 225: Oscars 2023 – Top Fabelmans of Inisherin, 227: Oscars 2023 – Everything Everywhere All Elvis Talking and 228: Oscars 2023 – The Way of WesTÁRn Sadness. 

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We continue our yearly tradition of breaking down the Best Picture nominees and the odds they have to win each of their categories. On this show we discuss All Quiet on the Western Front, TÁR, Avatar: The Way of Water and Triangle of Sadness. We label each nomination as Frontrunner, Dark Horse, Longshot and Just Happy To Be There. Joining the show is Kyle Garzon, hosts of the podcast Once Upon a Time at the Oscars a show where every week he review's a different Best Picture nominated film. Stay subscribed in order to see the rest of our Oscar content this season.

Listen to our last episode in the series where we talk about Everything Everywhere All At Once, Elvis and Women Talking.

Check out and subscribe to Once Upon a Time at the Oscars on Spotify and follow them on Twitter and Instagram. The podcast is currently on a hiatus, but we'll be sure to announce to everyone when it is back up and running.

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Thank you to Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and to Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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We continue our yearly tradition of breaking down the Best Picture nominees and the odds they have to win each of their categories. On this show we discuss Everything Everywhere All At Once, Elvis and Women Talking. We label each nomination as Frontrunner, Dark Horse, Longshot and Just Happy To Be There. Joining the show is Paulo Bautista host of the Oscars Death Race Podcast and John Richards the owner of Red Carpet Rosters. Stay subscribed in order to see the rest of our Oscar content this season.

Listen to our last episode in the series where we talk about The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans and Top Gun: Maverick.

Check out and subscribe to Oscars Death Race Podcast and Box Office Watch and follow Paulo on Twitter and Letterboxd.

Sign up to join your own fantasy film league, read John's blog about this year's betting favourites.

If you want to learn more about Red Carpet Rosters, listen to Paulo interview John on the Oscars Death Race Podcast and follow Red Carpet Rosters on Twitter. 

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Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Send a screenshot with your 5-star rating and review to [email protected] and we will send you free stickers!

Thank you to Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and to Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Make/Remake examines how two films that share the same story. Not to say what film was better or worse, but how they are similar and different while following the same arcs. This time we are looking at the 1952 Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru starring Takashi Shimura and the 2022 British remake Living directed by Oliver Hermanus and starring Bill Nighy. Check out our past Make/Remake's for more great comparison episodes and see the Letterboxd list.

Follow Rachel on Twitter, bookmark The Asian Cut and check out her website for more great reviews. Read Rachel's review Somebody I Used To Know on Exclaim!.

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Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Send a screenshot with your 5-star rating and review to [email protected] and we will send you free stickers!

Thank you to Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and to Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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We continue our yearly tradition of breaking down the Best Picture nominees and the odds they have to win each of their categories. On the first episode of the series we talk about The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans and Top Gun: Maverick. We label each nomination as Frontrunner, Dark Horse, Longshot and Just Happy To Be There. Joining the show is Jeff Bulmer and Pierre Frigon, the hosts of the Classic Movies Live podcast who were last heard on episodes Better Know a Contributor - Pierre Frigon and Better Know a Contributor - Jeff Bulmer. Stay subscribed in order to see the rest of our Oscar content this season.

Read The Banshees of Inisherin review from Slate.

Check out and subscribe to Classic Movies Live on Spotify and follow them on Twitter.

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Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Send a screenshot with your 5-star rating and review to [email protected] and we will send you free stickers!

Thank you to Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and to Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24's films. On this episode we are looking at 2014's A Most Violent Year directed by J.C. Chandor. The film stars Oscar Isaac as a man in 1981 New Jersey who is on the precipice of controlling a building to expand his natural gas empire while the world around him is crumbling. His wife, Jessica Chastain, supports her husband, but has her own secrets too. Joining the show is Todd Pengelly critic at For Reel.

Our double bill pairings include The French Connection (Dakota), Casino (Rachel) and Killing Them Softly (Todd). See our complete A24 Double Bill Pairings on Letterboxd.

If you haven't heard our deep dive into the origins of A24, listen to episode 108: A History of A24 Films and our last episode in this series episode 219: A24 Retrospective - The Captive.

Follow Todd on Twitter. Read his Best of the year lists including Films, Documentaries and Animated Films. 

Follow Rachel on Twitter, bookmark The Asian Cut and check out her website for more great reviews. Read Rachel's reviews of Plane and Door Mouse on Exclaim!.

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Thank you to Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and to Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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With the Oscar nominations announced just yesterday, Rachel and Dakota react to who is up for the industries highest honours. We discuss the lack of surprises and domination of the same ten films in just about every category, early favourites and more. The Oscars will be handed out on March 12th 2023, but along the way we will have plenty of great Oscar content, including breaking down each Best Picture nominated film along with all their other nominations, predictions of who we think will win and a wrap up episode!

Go back in time and listen to Dakota predict 82/120 of the Oscar nominations with his appearance on the Oscars Death Race Podcast. 

Follow Rachel on Twitter, bookmark The Asian Cut and check out her website for more great reviews. Read The Asian Cut's Top 10 Movies & TV Shows of 2022 and Rachel's interview with Kyle Edward Ball the director of Skinamarink for Exclaim!. 

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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On this bonus episode, I am sharing my interview with Benjamin Belloir, director of the new film Beautiful Stranger for the Academy of Death Racers Festival. Beautiful Stranger is a queer short about a man who experiences a sudden break up and decides to try his luck on a dating app despite his hesitations. I was asked to film a Q&A with Benjamin to appear alongside the film's screening. Feel free to either watch the movie first or to listen to the interview here beforehand.

To watch Beautiful Stranger and everything else at the AODR Festival, you can purchase a run of engagement ticket for only $5. Watch the AODR Fest trailer HERE.

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Follow the Academy of Death Racers film festival on Twitter, Instagram and Discord. 

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for the original theme songs, Jimere for the interlude music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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