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It's late summer in Brooklyn and we are sweat-y. We review another Best Picture nominee from 1975, Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon! Come back next week as we wrap up our 1975 series with Jaws!

Conor and Ryan finish their look back at the films of 2024 with their Top 10s! Come back next week as we review Dog Day Afternoon as a part of our 1975 retrospective.

It's January, and you know what that means?! Best of the year time! In this part one, Conor and Ryan go over their awards (not serious) for the year along with a bottom 5 of the year, honorable mentions, and our picks for the 20-11th best films of the year. Come back next time for our Top 10s!

NOTE: We recorded and edited this before yesterday's news that The Brutalist used generative AI. So you can add that to the section where I discuss AI in the films that are made today. I would have put Hit Man most likely as my #20 if I learned this prior to recording.

Brendan, Logan, and Ryan chat about losing one of the best to ever do it, David Lynch.

Oops. We forgot to mention this was our 150th episode. Oh well! We continue our 1975 series with the Best Picture winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. No 70s series is complete without a Nicholson performance so we made sure to have one. Come back next week when we review one of Conor's favorite films of all time, Dog Day Afternoon!

Note: There was an issue with one of the audio tracks, so we had to use the backup recording for some of the time. It won't sound as good as our normal shows, sorry!

That being said, we kick off 2025 with a look back at 50 years ago in 1975. Jeanne Dielman, the best movie of all time according to the 2022 Sight and Sound Critics Poll kicks us off. The three and a half hour film contains very little plot and even less dialogue. What did our hosts think of this classic film?

Come back next week as we review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest..........and maybe have our best of the year pods ready to go! Maybe!

We bring in the new year with Robert Eggers' new imagining of the Dracula classic tale through the lens of the unofficial adaptation from 1922. Did Eggers' vision work for us? Come back next week as we start our look back at the year 1975 with the film that was #1 in the Sight and Sound poll in 2022, Jeanne Dielman!

The Rock, Chris Evans, and Amazon got something for us all this holiday season; Red One! But was it a present or a sack of coal this year? We'll be back next week with our review of Robert Eggers' new reimagining of the 1922 German classic Nosferatu! Then join us in the New Year as we start a look back at the year 1975 for some film's 50th anniversaries.

After delays by the strikes, Challengers slammed its way into theaters this past April to rave reviews and modest, but real, box-office success. Despite not getting any Oscar buzz due to the early release, we are here to give it some flowers at the end of the year. At the end of the podcast we said we'll be reviewing The Brutalist next week, but unfortunately being able to see the film in time for the review will not be possible, so instead we're reviewing...um...Red One? Merry Christmas to no one, I guess.

This whole podcast is a Trap! We're back for Dan's pick in our 2024 wrap-up series, M. Night Shyamalan's Trap. While not a hit with general audiences, did it work for us? We'll be back next week for our last pick in this series, Challengers!