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Our 20th episode! We look at the Best Picture nominations of 1987 and we are really excited to talk about them:

• The Last Emperor
• Broadcast News
• Fatal Attraction
• Hope and Glory
• Moonstruck

Plus a few other categories we felt needed to be added to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and Who Did It Best!

This week we dive deep into comedies and why they should be nominated more by the academy, and why Raising Arizona wasn't! But for every Raising Arizona, there is an Ishtar. There's also a bunch of Vietnam War movies, the Devil is in New Orleans causing trouble, greed is good, and Arnold Schwarzenegger brings a minigun to a fight with an alien, because that's the Chicago way!! Bonus points if you can name all the movies from 1987 that I referenced in that last sentence.

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

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In honor of March Madness, the NBA and NHL playoffs, we put together a bracket of our own! 

This is the fourth round! We are now in the Elite Eight vying for the Irwin Uber Allin Award! What next? Go listen to the fourth round show, and afterwards go to the Retros Podcast Facebook group:

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Fill out the bracket polls with your choices. That's it! We'll tally everything up and announce the winners for the next round. Any brackets not filled will just use our decisions, but we'd rather have the listeners decide!

If you have any questions, you can leave a note in our Retros Podcast facebook group, or you can email us at [email protected]

Happy bracketing!

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Back to the 2000s and another list of fantastic movies! We were really excited to talk about the best picture nominations:

• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader

Plus a few other categories we felt needed to be added to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and Who Did It Best!

This week we deep dive into Ironman launching of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what superheroes would we have started MCU with, hint: it's probably Spider Man. Are the James Bond films sequels to each other, or episodes of one big franchise? We argue about that. We also discuss the sheer fighting power of Joan Fontaine and Joan Crawford and how the actresses from the remake of The Women would compare. And Cord's apparent fascination with Bruce Vilanch. All this and more!

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

If you're on mobile be sure to drop us a text by clicking on the link above "Send us a text" and tell us how insightful we are, or how off base we were in our decisions. You can also write us at [email protected]. 

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Where we look back at our 2001 episode and see if it needs any mistakes rectified or omissions told. But probably not. But probably, we're not always that accurate...

In this episode:

We made some mistakes. We hold ourselves accountable for those mistakes! Even if we have to make fun of each other for making those mistakes.

Rat Race! A criminally overlooked movie in the chase genre. Every twenty years or so, Hollywood brings out a chase movie starting with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in 1963 and then Rat Race in 1983. So we are overdue for new chase movie! Hollywood is slacking. Who would we like to see in an ensemble comedy cast of misfits and miscreants racing madly for some gonzo reward? We have some ideas. We probably could have researched those ideas a bit better, though.

All this and more, in a compact thirty minutes! And if you listen closely, you may hear the exact moment the online meeting we used to remotely record this episode stutter to a close and we had to restart the meeting in order to close the show! The lengths we go, I swear...

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This is quite possibly our favorite year we've done on this show! The 70s was full of avant guard cinema and outright crazy gonzo productions. We were really excited to talk about the best picture nominations:

• The Godfather Part 2
• Chinatown
• The Conversation
• Lenny
• The Towering Inferno

Plus a few other categories we felt needed to be added to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and The Sequel of the Year!

This week we deep dive into our love for a genre that peaked in the 1970s, the disaster movie, culminating in the nomination for Best Picture one of the most epic of disaster movies, The Towering Inferno! We discuss the competition between the two starring actors, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, the biggest names in Hollywood at the time, and Carlos's profound fear of using the rescue wire chair from the 100th floor of a flaming building. We also touch on Gene Hackman in The Conversation and the toilet of blood, the zombie revenge blacksploitation movie Sugar Hill, and the monumental weirdness of John Boorman's Zardoz! Hey, it was the 70s.

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

If you're on mobile be sure to drop us a text by clicking on the link above "Send us a text" and tell us how insightful we are, or how off base we were in our decisions. You can also write us at [email protected]. 

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Where we look back at our 1983 episode and see if it needs any mistakes rectified or omissions told. But probably not. But probably, we're not always that accurate...

In this episode:

We made some mistakes. We hold ourselves accountable for those mistakes! Even if we have to make fun of each other for making those mistakes.

The Outsiders, Coppola's coming of age film about teenagers in mid century Tulsa, Oklahoma overcoming adversities and fights with the Socs was a hit with audiences and critics alike. But what about Coppola's lesser known follow up to the Outsiders, the black and white arthouse film Rumble Fish, a story about teenagers in mid century Tulsa, Oklahoma, overcoming adversities, getting into fights, and playing pool in the summer where everyone is hot and sweaty. But at its core is the story of a teenager who idolizes his mercurial older brother. This movie, despite its similarities with The Outsiders and being written by the same author, did not reach as high a level of popularity. Why is that? Don't worry, we have answers.

Disney is on a roll with live-action remakes of its beloved animated epics, but has garnered some backlash over choices made to some characters' ethnicity. We have some suggestions that might help. 

All this and more, in a compact thirty minutes! 

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In honor of March Madness, the NBA and NHL playoffs, we put together a bracket of our own! 

This is the third round! The votes were in and we winnowed the matches down to 16  actors vying for the Irwin Uber Allin Award! What next? Go listen to the third round show, and afterwards go to the Retros Podcast Facebook group:

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Fill out the bracket polls with your choices. That's it! We'll tally everything up and announce the winners for the next round. Any brackets not filled will just use our decisions, but we'd rather have the listeners decide!

If you have any questions, you can leave a note in our Retros Podcast facebook group, or you can email us at [email protected]

Happy bracketing!

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We are moving into the 21st Century and discussing all the Oscar movies for the year 2001!! We were really excited to talk about the best picture nominations:

• Gosford Park
• In the Bedroom
• Fellowship of the Ring
• Moulin Rouge
• A Beautiful Mind

Plus a few other categories we felt needed to be added to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and The Sequel of the Year!

This week we deep dive into the casting decisions of Fellowship of the Ring and the many actors considered for the different roles, and talk about some controversial choices for Independent Darling, and announce the the movie so bad we awarded it Comedy Lead, because it is the opposite of Comedy Gold! 

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

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Where we look back at our 1997 episode and see if it needs any mistakes rectified or omissions told. But probably not. But probably, we're not always that accurate...

In this episode:

What exactly is the nomination process for the Academy Awards? We don't really know for sure, Price Waterhouse keeps that info close to their chest. But, we have a pretty good idea.

Which movie had the best marketing campaign for Best Picture of 1997? Which one had the worst? We don't dither, we have OPINIONS!

We discuss the meteoric rise and fall of Billy Zane, Titanic's Caledon Hockley, Rose's obnoxious fiance and villain of the movie. We were fascinated by the sheer number of movies Zane has been in since Titanic that we never heard of.

Does a year have enough influence in the zeitgeist to have its own theme song? 1997 does. Chumbawumba's Tubthumping!

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We get right to the heart of it and discuss all the Oscar movies for the year 1983!! We were really excited to talk about the best picture nominations:

• The Big Chill
• The Dresser
• The Right Stuff
• Tender Mercies
• Terms of Endearment

Plus a few other categories we felt needed to be added to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and The Sequel of the Year!

This episode also was the inauguration of two beloved aspects of our show, the  Best Grandma Moment, which doesn't mean what you probably think it means, and the Flammenwerfer, blasting its way to make our Hot Takes burn with hot hot fire! 

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right? Were we? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

If you're on mobile be sure to drop us a text by clicking on the link above "Send us a text" and tell us how insightful we are, or how off base we were in our decisions. You can also write us at [email protected]. 

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