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The SportsAlcohol.com gang's annual examination of the most popular summer blockbusters of 20 years ago marches on, with a look back at the sequels, superheroes, superstar comedies, and occasional icons of summer 2006, a weird and creatively uneven summer even by 2000s-era standards. Join Ben, Becca, Jeremy, Marisa, and Jesse as we discuss 11 summer movies from two decades ago, plus five less top-grossing outliers. Pirates, mutants, break-ups, fashionistas, and magical remote controls... they're all here!

Once again, your friends at SportsAlcohol.com have gotten together to predict and dissect the upcoming Academy Awards. Join Sara, Marisa, Jeremy, Ben, Becca, and Jesse as they discuss who WILL win, who SHOULD win, and who was SNUBBED among the nominees for the 98th Oscars, going over a dozen categories including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, and MORE!

Join the SportsAlcohol.com crew of Sara, Ben, Becca, Jeremy, Marisa, Jesse, and Nathaniel as they count down their collective 15 favorite movies of 2025, as well as some outliers that no one else in the group chose for their lists. Revolutionaries, twins, whodunits, heists, business, spies, religious fanatics... they're all here in an expansive but fast-moving conversation about the year in film!

Seasonal switch! After over a decade of looking back at various high-grossing summer movies, we've done something different for 1995. Though we had our usual 20-years-ago and 40-years-ago flashback episodes about the summers past, we also ventured into the HOLIDAY CORRIDOR of 30 years ago to look at the biggest movies first released in November and December 1995, an eclectic bunch that includes three (!) comedy sequels, a seminal crime picture, a prescient sci-fi freakout, Ian Fleming's 007, a pointless remake, and more! Join us as we mix our own memories of '95 with our recent revisitations of classics and non-classics alike.

After a ridiculously long hiatus, the SportsAlcohol.com crew is back to talk about the biggest summer blockbusters... of 40 years ago. Time travel, space travel, relitigating Vietnam, a bunch of mouthy kids, James Bond, and an overserving of Chevy Chase; truly, this summer had it all, by which we mean a couple of good movies tops! But Ben, Jeremy, Marisa, Sara, and Jesse find some bright spots and some cultural touchstones to discuss in this odd assortment of (a few) classics and (more) curiosities.

The SportsAlcohol.com crew makes their long-awaited return with a new installment in their summer flashback series, discussing the ten biggest movies of 20 years ago: the summer of 2005. Aliens! Batman! Other superheroes! Possibly lethal candy! Angelina Jolie! Adam Sandler! Vince Vaughn! Owen Wilson! Steve Carell! Spielberg, Burton, Lucas, Nolan, and more! This installment has it all, with an unusually wide gulf between the top-tier entries and the less well-regarded $100 million movies -- plus a bunch of bonus movies from outside the top ten!

The SportsAlcohol dot com conclave assembled to discuss the Oscars for the movie year of 2024: What we'd vote for, what we predict will win, and who we considered SNUBBED, in the big eight categories and beyond. Hear Sara, Marisa, Jeremy, and Jesse talk about Conclave, Emilia Perez, A Complete Unknown, Anora, The Brutalist, and more!

In our annual virtual get-together, the heaviest moviegoers of SportsAlcohol.com's roster discussed the movies on our collective Top 15 list for 2024, including but not limited to: Filming about architecture! Horrible bodies! Frawd marriages! Expressions of horniness! And many more. It's a long one but a good one; the episode also includes our outlier picks that only one person apiece voted for!

Belatedly venturing into a new decade for our summer flashback series, the SportsAlcohol.com crew looks back at the top 10 highest-grossing movies released in the summer of 1984! Recorded way back in the vintage summer of 2024, lost to time, and then recovered just in time for the tail-end of the year, this episode goes deep on mid-80s blockbusters featuring gremlins, ghosts, sports, spaceships, cops, breakdancers, and nerds (of course, there are always nerds on SportsAlcohol.com podcasts). So grab your proton packs, hold off on your electric boogaloos, and get ready to remember the summer movies of 1984!

Ten years ago, we did our first 20-years-ago flashback podcast about summer movies. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of these 20th anniversaries, we decided to circle back to 1994 and talk about ten movies that were very much not the ten highest grossers of that summer, including nascent superheroes, mad bombers, beloved and obscure indies, and a couple of natural born killers. Join us for another and even more eclectic trip down memory lane!