Switch The Envelope

Part 2 #10-#1

On this episode we finish our countdown of the top 20 best Teen Movies. Find out which films take top honors and find out which films just missed the cut. Did your favorite teen movie make our list?

PART 1 #20-11

Summer is over and students are returning to classrooms everywhere. In honor of the return to the hallowed halls of learning we compiled our Top 20 Best (Back to School) Teen Movies. All the teenage drama, awkward moments, sports triumphs, acne, and more. This episode takes through the bottom 10. Part 2 will reveal which teen movies reign supreme.

1986 Best Picture Part 2

This week our hosts get down to brass tacks about which movie really deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1986. Will Out of Africa hold onto its award, will The Color Purple be vindicated after being shut out of any Oscar wins, or will a non-nominated modern classic take the glory. Find out which film reigns supreme.

1986 Best Picture with Nikki O.

This week we welcome the host of Riff Laff’s newest podcast Sex With Candy, Nikki O., and Al takes our them back…in tiiime, to a year when the world was introduced to New Coke, Michael Jordan, and Calvin and Hobbes. Cory takes us behind the disaster that was the 1986 Oscars. Jeff challenges Cory for who is the biggest Back to the future fan. Meyrl Streep gets an STD in Africa, and we take a look at the highest grossing films of the year. We add a couple alternates in an effort to up stage Out of Africa. Will one of the official nominees prove to be the best, or will a 1985 snub take home belated Oscar gold? All will be revealed on Part 2.

Part 2 #10-#1

This week Jeff and Cory welcome back improv Comedian and Casting Director Lindsay Brooks to the show to help compile an ultimate top 20 list of the Best Rom-Coms of modern cinema. We recap the bottom 10, Jeff is still but hurt over Bull Durham not making the list, Cory has a bag full of Dad jokes, Al gives us some Useless Hollywood Facts, and Lindsay proves that Molly Shannon is the Judy Greer of romantic comedies. We then proceed to the Best of our best Rom-Coms list. Find out which movies made the cut of our top 10. Again, if your favorite Rom-coms didn’t make the cut, its probably because 20 is just not enough to represent this truly awesome genre of movies.

Part 1 #20-#11

This week Jeff and Cory welcome improv Comedian and Casting Director Lindsay Brooks to the show to help compile an ultimate top 20 list of the Best Rom-Coms of modern cinema. We talk a little comedy, discuss her involvement in the national touring production of The Office: A musical Parody, come to the realization that Judy Greer is the unsung hero in every romantic comedy ever made, and then get into the thick of which movies make the best Rom-Coms. Find out which movies made the cut of our bottom 10. If your favorite Rom-coms didn’t make the cut, its probably because 20 is just not enough to represent this truly awesome genre of movies. be sure to tune in to Part 2 to get our Top 10 Best Rom-Coms.

1981 Best Picture Part 2

This week our hosts, Jeff and Cory, press into the issue of which movie should have bested Ordinary People at the 1981 Academy Awards. After trying to explain their metric, they dive deep into the nominees and (most of) the alternates chosen last week with our guest host. Did David Lynch’s throwback horror with a social core score high enough? Will our nerd brains go soft for a mid-trilogy sci-fi classic? We’re we seriously going to consider Caddy Shack? All will be answered, as well as which movie deserves the switch.

1981 Best Picture Part 1 with Cassie Fetto

This week Al takes our hosts to the dawn of the 80s cinema, to a tumultuous time when volcanos were erupting, presidents were being shot, and the Oscars were held on a Tuesday. Jeff and Cory welcome guest Cassie Fetto (Fettoccine Alfredo Podcast) to the program. We take a Peek Behind the Oscars, and discover Cory is obsessed with age. Our guest explains why she dislikes a Kubrick classic, as we look at the top 10 movies of the year that was 1980, why kids these day don’t drink Zima, and helps us finalize our contenders to take on Ordinary People.

1991 Best Picture Part 2

This week we conclude our trip to 1991s Academy Awards and decide which film should have won for Best Picture. We’ll take you through our metric and break down the scores for all the nominees plus our alternate, Edward Scissorhands, to see if any of 1990’s best can dethrone Dances with Wolves. We also bring back a classic StE segment with a little Al’s Useless Hollywood Facts. All that and more…actually just those things. Enjoy.

1991 Best Picture Part 1

Welcome back, Switches, to season 2 of Switch the Envelope! We put on a new coat of paint and gave Al an upgrade for a whole new batch of Oscar switching. This week Al sends our fearless duo to the year 1991 to find out if Kevin Costner’s epic directorial debut, Dances with Wolves, can stand the test of time against some films that have proved to be beloved classics. We’ll take a Peek Behind the Oscars, breakdown why Francis Ford Coppola shouldn’t always hire his family members, and then we go thorough the highest grossing films of 1990 before solidifying our final nominees and alternates to challenge Dances with Wolves for that years film supremacy.