***This is a Spoiler FREE episode***

Though we will discuss some moments from these trailers including some plot/premise info.

Intro / How Oscar Season is Heating Up - Episode Start

Trailer Reviews

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman - 3:23

Glenn Close is The Wife - 5:36

Sci-Fi Comedy/Satire in Sorry To Bother You - 7:49

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot - 9:21

John Cho’s Searching - 12:45

Gaga & Cooper in A Star Is Born - 14:07

Steve Carell in Welcome to Marwen - 17:53

Chazelle, Gosling, & Foye in First Man - 22:31

Viola Davis in Widows - 27:09

Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria - 32:39

Chalamet & Carell in Beautiful Boy - 35:51

Melissa McCarthy asks Can You Ever Forgive Me? - 38:10

Redford, Spacek, & Affleck in The Old Man & The Gun - 40:36

Hunting Nazis in Operation Finale - 42:45

An Innovative Western in The Sisters Brothers - 47:10

Carrie Mulligan & Jake Gyllenhaal in Wildlife - 49:39

Jeff Bridges & friends(?) in Bad Times at the El Royale - 52:10

Outro / LEAVE US AN iTUNES REVIEW AND HAVE IT READ ON AIR! - 54:21

The Oscar Off-Season might be coming to a close because we have some trailers to review! Lots of film festival favorites, big name buzz-worthy movies, and a ton of familiar award season names have debuted trailers for their aspiring Oscar films, and we’re all over it. We review 17 trailers in this episode in Part 1 of our Mid-Year Oscars Report here.

We begin with some titles already previewed here on the pod including Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, where we enjoy the pronunciation of John David Washington. Glenn Close must stay away from rabbits in The Wife, Sorry to Bother You intrigues us to the point of stroking beards, and Gus Van Sant’s movie polarizes the world and us.

Lady Gaga’s voice talent inspires the goose-bump effect, but we wonder if Bradley Cooper can sing up to par. Damien Chazelle’s cinematic manipulation is working on one of us, and First Man’s main competition this year might just be the Viola Davis showdown with Daniel Kaluuya in Steve McQueen’s Widows.

The year of Steve Carell takes shape with new trailers for Welcome to Marwen and Beautiful Boy. Mike 1 gut feel for the prediction game is on full display with Carell’s co-star, Timothee Chalamet, and we ponder a rewatch of Dario Argento’s Suspiria before we take in Luca Guadagnino’s remake. Can We Ever Forgive Melissa McCarthy for adding another great performance to the already loaded Best Actress race? I think we can. Then we talk about some old timey archetypes with Robert Redford’s The Old Man & The Gun, and a surprisingly innovative trailer of the western The Sisters Brothers. We close with reviews of Carrie Mulligan’s Wildlife and our dark horse pick for a potential MMO favorite with Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale.

Check out our previous 2018/19 Oscars coverage in episode 53 where we gave our way too early predictions that we hold to be undeniably correct. We also summarized much of the buzz coming out of the film festivals in our Hollywood Hot Takes no 6 (ep. 71), and we’re previewed each of the spring & summer months’ worth of theatrical releases over 3 pods (eps 52, 67, & 79). Plus, we’ve reviewed some of the early contenders like Black Panther, A Quiet Place, Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Hereditary, and Incredibles 2 in our movie event pods.

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