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Well, we made it this far before coming across our first mid film. A whole two weeks. If you’ve been listening to us for a while, you already know our thoughts and feelings about David O. Russell. In short, we don’t like him or his movies much, save for Silver Linings Playbook. In The Fighter, he takes on our favorite subject, sports. There must be a dad film every year, and I’m sure 2011 dads were hyped to see a film about boxers they knew of growing up. Yay for them. Stick with us this week! We promise better films are coming.

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Listen to our other David O. Russell episodes:

Silver Linings Playbook

American Hustle

Natalie Walker compilation

Listen to our episode on Brooklyn

Melissa Leo's Oscar campaign

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It’s rare to have a horror film nominated for Best Picture, but in this week’s episode we get to talk about the psychological horror that is Black Swan. This dark tale of a ballerina pushed to her breaking point is magnificently done by Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman, and Mila Kunis. The score, the choreography, the costumes all blended seamlessly to create the edge of your seat horror/thriller that will stand the test of time.

We’re just getting started with this season and there some more great movies to come!  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram and leave us a review where ever you listen to podcasts!

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Natalie's dance double Sarah Lane speaking out

Behind the scenes featurettes about Natalie's training, visual effects, and the production

Listen to our episode about The Artist

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Hello Friends! Welcome back to another season of our Oscar Rewind Series! This time we’re looking back at the 2011 Best Picture nominees. We’ve got an exciting season ahead of us, and we can’t wait to dive in. In this first episode the gang looks back at possibly James Franco’s best film, 127 Hours. Danny Boyle and James Franco handle this story with reverence and Franco’s portrayal of Aron Ralston’s vulnerability in those trying hours was indeed Oscar worthy. We’re only a few hours into this season and it is already looking to be better than the last. 

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Survivalist talks about 127 Hours

Listen to us talk about how we took a hike and almost died!

Watch Good Boys

Watch Beautiful Creatures 

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We made it to the end of another season of our Oscar Rewind series! The Artist took home the big win, but the actual big win is this episode right here. We’re not sure what was in the air, but we were off our rockers and couldn’t be tamed. Laughs were shared, and tears were shed in this monumental episode that will go down as one our favorites. Oh, and we talk about this movie and how lack luster this whole season is. On to the next! 

Keep looking at our socials for when the next Rewind Series is coming out and start getting excited for our Conversations with Oscar series at the beginning of 2024!

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Listen to the score

Listen to our episode about La La Land

Watch Ida

Watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Listen to our episode about Roma

Watch The Tragedy of Macbeth

"America, no"

Watch Bridesmaids

Watch Spy

Listen to our episode about Boyhood

Kate Beckinsale and her Pantomime Horse Habit

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We're almost done with this season of Oscar Rewind! This week we chat about the beautiful and moving War Horse. Our boy Stevie does not miss and on a film that could have easily been a basic boy and his dog story he holds our attention by being technically great and getting wonderful performances from his actors. Cause y'all Joey the horse was ACTING

What did you think of War Horse? What movies did you watch in school? Let us know on Twitter and Instagram!

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Listen to our other episodes about Steven Spielberg movies: The Fabelmans, West Side Story, The Post, Bridge of Spies, Lincoln     

Watch The Old Guard

Watch Sharp Objects

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You've heard us complain all season long about how bored we are. Terrence Malick woke us up this week with the visual feast that The Tree of Life is. This artistic look at generational and inherited trauma told without a linear through line or much of a script manages to be the most thought provoking film of the season thus far.

What did you think of the film? Too pretentious or too beautiful? Come talk to us on Twitter and Instagram!

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Two featurettes on how they did the effects

A featurette about the cinematography

The religious trauma tiktok we talked about

Listen to our Lady Bird episode

Listen to us talk about that one time we died

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Yeah sports! Score the points! It's clear we weren't the target audience for this film. And try as he may with his great on screen eating, Brad Pitt and this script couldn't score a home run with us. As Ana said it's a "sad lonely man makes hard decision"

Are you a baseball fan? Or a Statistics baddie? Come talk to us on Twitter and Instagram!

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Watch The Night Of

Watch We Have Always Lived In The Castle if only for Sebastian Stan's highlights

Statistics by Lil Timmy Tim

Listen to The Smiths and watch Charmed

Watch Ice Princess

Listen to our The Big Short episode

The Show by Lenka

Darrin's Dance Grooves

The Savannah Bananas

Our first and only video

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We are halfway done with this mid Oscar year and Midnight in Paris is staying on track with the mediocre. Woody Allen's self indulgence nature of film making and thin script was not for us but Paris is pretty and time travel!

How many Woody Allen movies have you seen? Come talk to us on Twitter and Instagram!

Watch Mission: Impossible Fallout

Watch Timeless

Listen to our The Shape of Water episode

Watch Never Have I Ever

Watch American Born Chinese

Watch Critical Role

Watch The Legend of Vox Machina

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The tide of this slow season seems to finally be turning with Martin Scorsese's ode to movies. This adaptation of the popular children's book was made for 3D and this is the first time we all felt it would have been almost better to watch it as Scorsese intended, with funny looking blue and red glasses. Tune in as we discuss Jude Law, Pacino v. De Niro and who loves who the most.

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Listen to the score by Howard Shore

Listen to our Minari episode

Listen to our The Irishman episode

Al Pacino being romantic

Listen to our The Wolf of Wall Street episode

Listen to our Citizen Kane episode

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The Help has a stellar cast and is wonderfully acted but the mid movie train is still chuggin. Listen to us chat about the themes of the movie, how it could have been better and how things have changed but also haven't.

What did you think of Emma Stone's wig? Come talk to us on Twitter and Instagram and remember, you is kind, you is smart, you is important.

Listen to our Green Book episode

Everyone's a Little Bit Racist

Watch Mrs. America

Donnell Writes 

Does More Harm Then Good

Our Savior and Queen, Viola Davis

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