Oscar Buzzkills

Oscar Buzzkills is BACK for Season 4, baby! Mari and Jeff kick things off with an overhaul of their favorite Summer 2022 films and television shows including Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Bear, Nope, Top Gun: Maverick, Vengeance, Stranger Things S4, and more! It's a new season, new format, same idiots.

For the Season 3 Finale episode of Oscar Buzzkills, Mari and Jeff break down "The Best of the Rest" or all the other great Oscar nominated films this year that didn't get their own episode! We're talkin The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Nightmare Alley, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Being the Ricardos, tick tick… BOOM!, Don’t Look Up, No Time to Die, Cruella, Encanto, The Worst Person in the World, and more. Plus, they chat about two new movies coming out this week: Fantastic Beasts and the Secrets of Dumbledore AND Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - one is a must see and one is not.... tune in to find out which is which! PLUS The Dropout, Human Resources, and Severance for come TV sprinklings. Thanks so much for tuning in this season and keep on watching movies! We'll be back real soon!

Well, IT'S HERE. THE 2022 OSCARS EPISODE. Mari and Jeff break down one of the most insane telecasts in awards history - "The Slap," Meg Thee Stallion talking about Bruno, Amy Schumer descending from the ceiling, Regina Hall being horny, and why we can NEVER trust the general public with Fan Favorite votes ever again. Plus, they examine each win of the night and discuss if it was deserved, historical, weird, or all just apart of the master Dune Award for Slay. It is THE Oscar Buzzkills episode you don't want to miss!

In the final OB episode before the Oscars (!!!), Mari and Jeff break down the 2022 BAFTA and Critics Choice wins and what they may mean for the big golden guys! Plus they gush over Abbott Elementary; applaud Turning Red; Mari entices Jeff into her goal to watch every Andrew Garfield movie; and Jeff explains what was so fishy with Bad Vegan on Netflix. Then they deep dive into Cannes daring and International Best Film shoo-in (now winner) Drive My Car and discuss the liminal space of the car for 3 hours (no they don't, but what if). The film is breathtaking, and Mari and Jeff could praise the screenplay for days, but did the film need to be 3 hours long?? Tune into the episode to find out!

On this week's episode, Mari and Jeff chat about the films of the moment: The Batman, Fresh, No Exit, and they bring back Zola while they're at it. Plus, they talk about being the only people in an AMC theater to watch the Film Independent Spirit Awards on the big screen (and what its The Lost Daughter, Zola, and Passing - justice for Ruth Negga! - wins mean for future awards). Finally, they break down the beautiful CODA, which is currently making an unexpected sweep in the weeks leading up to the Oscars. Mari and Jeff discuss how important and groundbreaking this film is while also pairing it again a stacked Best Picture category. It's an ep not to miss!

On this week's episode, Jeff and Mari break down the latest RuPaul's Drag Races episodes and this insane season of Euphoria; Mari discusses her favorite Film Independent Spirit Awards screeners; and Jeff talks about the absolute nonsense that was Moonfall. Plus, your favorite podcast team discusses Kenneth Branagh's beautiful Oscar nominee, Belfast, and how much the learned about Northern Ireland history. While the performances may not have been stellar, the directing, cinematography and production design sure as hell were!

We are COVERED head to toe in Awards Season now, baby! This week, Mari and Jeff break down the 2022 Oscar nominations in all their glory - the surprises, the snubs, the fun facts, and everything in between. Will The Power of the Dog sweep? Just how stacked are the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories? What do these noms mean for the future of international films in major awards? And do we HAVE to watch Nightmare Alley now??? All these questions and more ANSWERED!

It's the 100th episode of Oscar Buzzkills! *insert Paul Rudd Hot Ones gif here* Mari and Jeff have their first special guest on the pod EVER and it's only fitting that it be Ed, Boyfriend of the Pod, to school them in the hardest film trivia on Earth!! After egos are checked and reminiscing on the past 100 episodes is done, they break down Spielberg's beautiful box-office-flop-turned-Oscar-fruntrunner West Side Story. Mari gets a bit intense (it was her favorite film of the year & her favorite musical of all time, after all), but it's a perfect film to ring in 100 and showcase the passion that Jeff and Mari have for movies. Thanks for sticking with us for the past 3 years! (And yes we know this ep is 2 hours but promise us, it's well worth it!)

WARNING: There are Scream spoilers in this episode; DO NOT LISTEN unless you don't care or have already seen the new Scream movie.

On this special episode of Oscar Buzzkills, Mari and Jeff break down the brand new Scream movie, how shitty the HFPA is and what this year's Golden Globes mean, and the very odd SAG Awards nominations. Plus, Jeff details the full saga of his high school varsity choir experience - it's a CAN'T MISS episode! And of course, you know what a SAGGY NOMS episode means... that the Oscars race is just around the corner!

The dog days are ovvVEEeeeRRR! On this week's episode, Mari and Jeff chat about Pig, Gunpowder Milkshake, The Lost Daughter, and Mass. Listen to the ep to find out which they liked and didn't like! Plus the insanity of Yellowjackets and the comfort of the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Special. Then, Mari and Jeff dive into Oscar frontrunner The Power of the Dog; it has beautiful direction, performances, cinematography, music, and all the things said in between the lines of dialogue. It's POWERFUL and it was high time Oscar Buzzkills gave it an episode! Plus..... GAY?!?!