Based on the bestselling novel, the movie that first swept the Oscars, ‘Gone with the Wind’ sets the standard for creating palatable racism. Creating an Antebellum south that never existed and distributing love letters to the KKK. This film actively harmed the black community upon its release and the support this movie garnered led to the continuation of lynching laws. There is a serious argument to be made that this movie shouldn’t be screened because of the harmful ideas it perpetuates. Look no further then its “violently pro Nazi” director Victor Flemming.

The Second Great War has begun in earnest as we watch “You Can’t Take It With You”. Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play, we get to learn that systemic issues don’t exist. We get to see how good and nutritious the taste of capitalist boot can really be when you get a good suck on it, all in two glorious hours… Director Frank Capra wins the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, but Andy and Maevas are just frustrated and disappointed.

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Just in time to miss this years Oscars, we watched “The Life of Emile Zola” directed by William Deiterle. A surprisingly effective film that touches on a lot of our favorite themes: journalistic integrity, class traitors, a reasonable distrust in the state and military, gay-baiting. In what is only the second time in the history of the Academy Awards we allow this film to keep its prize, Best Picture, and on top of that give it the award for Best Foreshadowing.

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“The Awful Truth” truly is a thought provoking piece. It makes you ask what is comedy? Should you respect the begging wishes of your actors? What is the awful truth? Impressively this movie is ‘based’ on a play and manages to not have a coherent plot or anything resembling a cohesive character arc. Director Leo McCarey may be the worst kind of Hollywood persona, a gimmicky hack. Though his chicanery won him the 1938 Oscar for Best Director, it wins nothing from us because we struggle to remember any of the movie.

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“The Great Ziegfeld” is a three hour showcase glorifying the ideal American entrepreneur. A classist figure that swings wildly between giving to the working class and conning them into free labor, Mr. Ziegfeld would pull himself up by his bootstraps if his Louis Vuitton Diamond-Studded Oxfords had any. Watch as this movie insists one man can single-handedly change the world of art on his own and ignores all of the horror of producing underage showgirls. Director Robert Leonard spent a lot of money to win the Oscar for Best Picture but we think he should have spent that money on a editor.

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Tonight we get to watch Frank Capra grow from the fun but characterless ‘It Happened One Night’ to this surprisingly fresh and character driven romantic comedy. With characters and writing that manage to push this film just past its conservative bullshit. We’re proud of Mr. Capra for making a movie we almost recommend. ‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’ wins the Academy Award for Best Director, but we are only willing to give it the Oscar for Best Lead Actors.

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Frank Lloyd reminds us what Thanksgiving is really about, white washing cultural atrocities done to native peoples. ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ may as well be a fictitious piece because the only thing it shares with its1789 real-world inspiration is classism and the name of the ship. We advise you miss the two year voyage of the bounty because its not really going anywhere with its plot, theming, or morals. This film wins two awards one from the Oscars for Best Picture and a special award from us for Worst Film We’ve Had to Watch So Far.