Hoge and Cla sit down for the first of two episodes to talk about this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. In this episode, they give their thoughts on Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel, Imitation Game and Whiplash. The second half of this year's nominees will be discussed in next week's episode.

Opening tune this week is a medley of original scores written for motion pictures by John Williams. Send your emails to [email protected], follow us on Twitter,@hogensmith, like us on Facebook.com/hogensmith and then review us (positively!) on iTunes.