There Will Be Pod

Project Hail Mary and The Bride! lead a March roundup, along with Hoppers, Heel, By Design, Undertone, Radu Jude's Dracula, Yes, Zach Cregger's Mars and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Plus, Aaron Brooks (@incubrooks) of ⁠⁠⁠Why We Love Horror⁠⁠⁠⁠ returns (53:00) to share the movies that made him who he is in our latest MovieBio.

Also, Blindspot Swap™ reviews Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Four Lions, plus new swaps for next episode, as well as a Classics Corner.

Outre: Sandra Huller cover of Harry Styles' "Sign of the Times" (2026) - NO LICENSE ISSUE AS ONLY A BRIEF EXCERPT

2026 has some of the best Dumpuary movies in years but before we get to Bone Temple, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die and Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie, we take a last look at 2025, interviewing the director (Daniel Robbins), producer (Daniel Goldschmidt) and star (Zack Weiner) of the political comedy CITIZEN WEINER + handing out our 2025 movie awards.

Spoilers only for Citizen Weiner.

Check out Citizen Weiner on Tubi and Amazon

Our inaugural Beast Supporting Actor awards for 2025 went to Googoo the meerkat from Left-Handed Girl, and the Canadian Toller dogs from The Sparrow in the Chimney and Good Boy.

Outro is The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden, 1982, EXCERPT only, used for cultural commentary so no licensing concern, thank you for your attention to this matter! 

The bracket to determine the best movie of 2025 is here - after releasing the bracket in separate episodes, here you can tackle the ENTIRE (3 hour!) bracket!

Joined for each bracket section by guests including Zach Brooks, Laura Royden, Navi, Adam Cohen and Grace Leeder, as well as many clips ("I Dont Have A Reason!") from listeners naming their favorite of the year.

SPOILERS only near the end on the final 4 movies.

The 32 movie Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Outro is from the soundtrack of the winner of the bracket, the best movie of 2025 according to TWBP!

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- and we have finally arrived at the finale, from the Elite 8 to the best movie of the year.

Grace Leeder (goforgrace), movie critic and podcaster extraordinaire, joins us to finalize the bracket and debate the 8 finalists One Battle After Another, It Ends, Misericordia, Sentimental Value, If I Had Leg's I'd Kick You, Left-Handed Girl, No Other Choice, It Was Just an Accident.

**SPOILERS Warning**

The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.⁠ Sam's ranking of 104 movies of 2025. Previous winners of TWBP annual best movie can be seen here and here for the movie animal of the year.

Outro is from the soundtrack of the 2025 TWBP Best Movie of the Year

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week!

On the FOURTH (and last!) bracket corner we are joined Down Under by Adam Cohen, to decide which movies will advance from No Other Choice, Ne Zha 2, KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, 28 Years Later, Blue Moon, The Testament of Ann Lee, It Was Just An Accident, Bugonia.

NEXT episode: the Elite 8 decides the overall winner!

No spoilers. The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.

Outro is - Rocky Road to Dublin, Jack O'Connell, Sinners OST - EXCERPT only used per right of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week!

On the THIRD bracket corner we are joined by Navi to decide which movies will advance from Marty Supreme, Magazine Dreams, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Kill the Jockey, Twinless, Wake Up Dead Man, Resurrection, Left-Handed Girl, Sorry Baby, Bring Them Down.

No spoilers. The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.

Outro is Think About Your Troubles, by Delaney Quinn from the OST of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - EXCERPT only used per rights of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week!

On the SECOND bracket corner we are joined by Laura Royden to decide which movies will advance from Train Dreams, Sirat, Misericordia, The Phoenician Scheme, Sentimental Value, Hamnet, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Lurker and Friendship.

Minor spoilers ONLY for Hamnet. The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.

Outro is Favorite Daughter by Lorde (2025) - EXCERPT used per right of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week!

On the first bracket corner we are joined by Zach Brooks, cohost of ⁠The Movie Ladder Podcast⁠, to decide which movies will advance from One Battle After Another, Eddington, Frankenstein, Mickey 17, It Ends, The Plague, Weapons, The Secret Agent and Black Bag.

No spoilers. The 2025 Bracket can be found ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

Outro is 'Cold As Ice' by Jax the Bard (2025)

What are the most disappointing movies of 2025? We name our top 3s (1:45), and then (16:20) brainstorm the bracket, deciding what themes and movies should contend in the bracket on deck next month to decide the best movie of 2025. A special Classics Corner (38:00) highlights the best and worst classics watched in 2025.

OUTRE: Our Love · Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan - The Ballad of Wallis Island OST (2025), USED AS EXCERPT AS PART OF LEGAL CULTURAL COMMENTARY

Warren and Zach join us to unwrap the December 2025 movies we have all seen, like Sentimental Value, and those only some of us have seen, like Hamnet, No Other Choice, The Mastermind, Avatar 3, Marty Supreme, The Housemaid, Hedda and Steve. And then...

...Allix shares the best of the 20+ movies he saw for his Blanchett Blank-cheque and Sammy shares the best movies from the 2000s decade after watching 100+ blindspots from those years. NO SPOILERS this episode!

We close out with another Blindspot Swap™ and of course, Classics Corner.™

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Outre - used legally in the spirit of cultural commentary! - is Cate Blanchett singing the Beatles "When I'm 64."