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Top 10 Movies of Tom Cruise

This week Cory and Jeff help settle a fan’s marital dispute over our favorite Kevin Costner movie by not settling it at all. Instead, our hosts ramp up the puns and help settle a fight that couple hasn’t even had yet. That’s right, Jeff and Cory take a hard left turn into the Danger Zone and create their definitive Top 10 list of Tom Cruise Movies. Our hosts dive deep into the career of one of their favorite actors. He’s done it all through his career and the results of this list can’t be disputed. It’s science!

2011 Best Picture Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of our episode covering the Best Picture category of the 2011 Academy Awards. Before our hosts dive into the nominees, they discuss the clash between new media like Netflix and the Academy. They return to the original tried and true rating metric to determine if there was a movie that should’ve topped The Kong’s Speech. In a year with plenty of great movies the race to the Oscar is incredibly tight, and the true winner may be our biggest surprise victory yet.

2011 Best Picture Part 1

This week Al sends our hosts to a year when Ke$ha topped the music charts, Cory’s birthday twin, Aaron Rogers, won a big sports game, and Wikileaks destroyed what little faith we had in our government. The 2011 Academy Awards gave us a safe winner starring Colin Firth when so many other films went on to become staples in film lovers collections. Before our opinionated time travelers nail down a manageable list of award contenders Cory takes us behind the Oscars, Jeff hates Anne Hathaway and James Franco, both reveal that animated movies run on a constant loop in their households, and they breakdown the highest grossing movies of the year. Find out if another movie can dethrone The King’s Speech on Part 2 of this episode.

1987 Best Director Part 2

On this episode we get to the thrilling conclusion of our first Best Director Category. 1987’s Best Director award went to Oliver Stone, but a year that was packed with great movies and directors makes for some tight competition. Our hosts review the nominees and their alternates before taking us through the revised rating metric. Great directors get subpar scores and some overlooked filmmakers make some surprising scores. Listen as our hosts make the definitive judgment on 1987’s Best Director Academy Award.

1987 Best Director Part 1

This week our hosts are back to business as usual as Al takes them back to the cinematic year of 1986 in search of the true Best Director for the first time on the show. Jeff and Cory recap their success at picking winners for the Oscars that just were before diving head first into the the Oscars of yore. Cory takes us behind an Academy Awards show that was hosted by some strange bedfellows. Jeff waxes about some classic action films of the year. And they reveal the top ten highest grossing films of 1986 before solidifying their alternates for the Best Director category. Will Oliver Stone hold onto his award? Was there a better nominee that was robbed? Or will an overlooked contender steal the glory? All will be revealed on part two where Jeff and Cory debut their Director metric.

This week our hosts make their Oscar predictions ahead of this Sundays big night. While many other critic groups and Academy prognosticators base their winner theories in stats and trends, Jeff and Cory’s picks are more like the person in the office spring College basketball pool who fills their brackets based off of the mascots they like. As we go through the major categories, Jeff considers which nominee is the likely Academy pick, while Cory predicts who the future envelope should be switched to. Keep score at home and see how right we are(n’t) against the results from this years Academy Awards.

1993 Best Actor Part 2

In the thrilling conclusion of our episode on 1993s Best Actor Oscar, our hosts make good for a “contest” winner (that they’ve totally never met before) named David and they let him stay for the whole episode. Cory reminds him that they are the professionals, and then our hosts quickly prove him wrong. Tensions flare over Al Pacino’s winning performance. Jeff and Cory work the StE scoring metric on the nominees and alternates. And our unlikely guest’s opinion doesn’t matter. Will Pacino keep his Gold, or will it be rightfully given to another great actor? Listen and find out!

1993 Best Actor Part 1

After a brief holiday hiatus AI and our hosts are back for more past Oscars shenanigans. This week our super time computer sends us to a year when Kris Kross made everyone jump jump, U2 was one of the biggest Chart toppers, and Whitney Houston made sure we’d know she’d always love…Kevin Costner. Hm. Thats right, we’re going back to 1993 and seeing if Al Pacino’s role in Scent of a Woman deserved the Oscar, Whoo-Ah! Cory takes us behind the 65th Academy Awards. Jeff wonders if Cory has ever seen an action film. Together we find out what people in 1993 were watching and solidify some overlooked performances to add to our nominee list. Which actors in 1992 reigned supreme? Find out our results on Part 2 of this episode.

Best of 2018!

Get in to the Christmas spirit as our hosts Jeff and Cory count down the Top 20 Best Christmas Movies of all time. On this episode we cover numbers 10 through 1 on our list. Join us as Jeff battles Instagram over Hallmark Holiday entertainment, while Cory shares his love for colorized black and white film. Share in the love of the holiday season with two guys who love the holiday season. Did your favorite holiday movie make the cut? Maybe it made it to the Bottom 10 which is available on Part 1. Happy Holidays!