Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 316: Oscars 2025

Released 3 March 2025

For this episode, we quickly recapped the 97th Academy Awards which were broadcast in the UK in the early hours of Monday 3 March 2025.

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Episode 315: Jeanne Dielman

Released 12 February 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, written and directed by Chantal Akerman and starring Delphine Seyrig. As well as holding a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film unexpectedly topped the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest movies ever made. We take the opportunity to explore what this poll is, how it has changed over seventy years, and what films we would have put on our lists, had we been asked.

• https://princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
• Sight and Sound Top Tens https://bestpickpod.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/The-Sight-and-Sound-Survey-top-tens-1.pdf
• https://thefilmstage.com/watch-a-behind-the-scenes-documentary-on-the-making-of-jeanne-dielman
• https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/q-a-with-chantal-akerman-jeanne-dielman-three-decades-later/
• John Cage’s 4’33” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4

BEST PICK – the book is available now from all the usual places, and the paperback is out on 18 February.

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• UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108
• US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434
• Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

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Episode 314: Oscar nominations 2025

Released 23 January 2025.

For this episode, we quickly reviewed the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards which were announced by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott.

• Donate today to help victims of the LA fires. https://mutualaidla.org
• The Substance Behind the Scenes https://youtu.be/8H64HNvXrqU
• Guilty Feminist interview with Shiori Ito and Megumi Inman https://pod.fo/e/2a1532

BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…

• From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman
• UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI
• US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101
• UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108
• US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434
• Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

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Episode 231: Mulholland Drive (REDUX)

First released 19 October 2022. Rereleased 17 January 2025 in tribute to David Lynch.

We lost David Lynch this week at the age of 78. In tribute to this giant of American cinema, we are rerunning this episode in which we looked at his 2001 slice of LA Gothic Mulholland Drive.

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For this episode, we watched the 2001 David Lynch film Mulholland Drive, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster and Ann Miller. This film began life as a TV pilot and was eventually repurposed by Lynch as a one-off feature film. It was suggested by Patreon supporter Joel Aarons, made it on to our shortlist and came top of our Patreon poll, by a narrow margin.

·         https://crooked.com/podcast/bros-dont-prefer-blonde-w-isabella-rossellini/

·         Brand New Cherry Flavor https://youtu.be/wOzM3c33TVg

·         Mel Gibson interview https://youtu.be/PdYjnIDfi9Q

·         David Lynch’s sitcom https://youtu.be/YdfTQ29sca8

·         Mulholland Drive explained https://youtu.be/VvgRLTP3U5Y

BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…

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-          UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108

-          US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434

-          Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

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Episode 96: Oppenheimer

Released 18 December 2024

For this episode, we watched the 2023 Best Picture winner Oppenheimer written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. The cast includes Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh and Josh Hartnett, with acting Oscars for Murphy and Downey, contributing to its total of seven awards. We also discuss Barbenheimer, dream sequels and Sylvia Simms.

• No CGI is really just invisible CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo

BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…

• From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman
• UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI
• US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101
• UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108
• US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434
• Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

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Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold.

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Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold.

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Get your tickets to the launch event on 3 October here:

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Twenty years, 16 postcodes, one city. In her debut storytelling show, Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life in no particular order. Each show is drawn from true tales of love and landlords, of mice and men and more, told with help from the audience who will play their part in her odyssey as she moves North, South, East and West, finding out which is best. This is a journey through an impenetrable city with an all-too-open heart. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you rent cos you can't afford to buy...

Where: Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe When: 1-26 August (not 12), 3:30pm Tickets: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/16-postcodes

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Jessica Regan

Episode 312. Star Trek The Next Generation: Chain of Command

Released 1 May 2024

Today we watched the two-part story “Chain of Command”, the tenth and eleventh episodes of The Next Generation’s sixth season, and the last two episodes transmitted before the start of the spin-off show Deep Space Nine. It was written by Frank Abatemarco and Ronald D Moore and directed by Robert Scheerer (Part I) and Les Landau (Part II).

Continuing our short season of episodes looking at Star Trek, to promote Tom’s new book Star Trek Discovering the TV Series, which is out now from all the usual places, including…

• From the publisher https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Star-Trek-Discovering-the-TV-Series-Hardback/p/49373
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• UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/star-trek-discovering-the-tv-series/tom-salinsky/9781399035040
• US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/star-trek-tom-salinsky/1144095002?ean=9781399035040

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Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Garrett Millerick

Episode 311. Star Trek (TOS): This Side of Paradise

Released 24 April 2024

“This Side of Paradise” is the 24th episode of the first season of Star Trek, first shown on 2 March 1967. It was written by Jerry Sohl and DC Fontana and directed by Ralph Senensky.

• Star Trek theme with lyrics https://youtu.be/x8UlFN0kNq4
• Variety list of best Star Trek episodes https://variety.com/lists/best-star-trek-episodes/

Continuing our short season of episodes looking at Star Trek, to promote Tom’s new book Star Trek Discovering the TV Series, which is out now from all the usual places, including…

• From the publisher https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Star-Trek-Discovering-the-TV-Series-Hardback/p/49373
• UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3IG5N9L
• US Amazon https://a.co/d/27aO9tZ
• UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/star-trek-discovering-the-tv-series/tom-salinsky/9781399035040
• US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/star-trek-tom-salinsky/1144095002?ean=9781399035040

To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on [email protected]. You can also Tweet us individually, @TomSalinsky or @millerickcomedy.

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