First-time guest Adam Donato joins us to discuss Oliver Stone's 1989 film 'Born on the Fourth of July,' starring Tom Cruise in a role that garnered him his first Academy Award nomination.

Based on the real-life story of Ron Kovic, a Vietnam War veteran and anti-war advocate paralyzed from the waist down.

We're joined by returning guest Bekah Stogner for the start of the Hanks leg of our Two Toms series. It begins with his breakout 1988 hit, Big, directed by Penny Marshall.

Nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance, Hanks stars as Josh, a 13-year-old boy who is transformed into a 30-year-old man when he makes a wish.

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We invite back our card-counting friend Zack Perry for a very normal conversation about Rain Man, winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

We chalk up our pool cues and rack up a cool game of 9-ball with our guest Joseph Salomone, professional Martin Scorsese enjoyer. We discuss Marty's 1986 picture, The Color of Money, a story of billiards hustling and gambling, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. Check out Joe on the Aggressively Okay podcast at https://aggressivelyokay.com/

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We celebrate 400 episodes with a watch along live reaction to the 2007 spoof comedy Epic Movie, selected by our guest, Gaia, after winning last year's Fantasy Film League.

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Our Tom v Tom series begins with Tony Scott's Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise.

Released in the summer of 1986, it became the biggest movie of the year and went on define a generation of film. The aesthetic of 80s became synonymous with the look of Top Gun.

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Celebrate six years of WBAM and our new series "A Tale of Two Toms."

We enter a new WBAM era as we prepare and set the stage for our next career arc series, "A Tale of Two Toms," covering the films of Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks from 1986 to 2002.

The biggest movie weekend in years has arrived with the dual releases of Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
Dubbed "Barbenheimer" this unlikely combo became a cultural sensation and broke box office records nationwide.
We discuss both films in-depth and then do a Nolan filmography ranking.

We play fourth-dimensional chess with an algorithm to discuss the seventh Mission: Impossible film, Dead Reckoning Part One, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

Spoilers start at 29:49