Sidney Poitier (The Jackal) and Rod Steiger (End of Days) star in 1967’s Best Picture winning film In the Heat of the Night. The film features staggering racism, a crazy soundtrack, and the most bonkers gum chewing committed to celluloid.
The Great Ziefeld is a movie. It is a movie which, apparently, won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1936. It is a movie with a running time just under THREE HOURS and includes multiple song & dance numbers. If that is your thing, you MAY like this movie. But, then again, maybe not.
Hollywood superstar Ray Milland (The Thing With Two Heads) stars in this riotous Best Picture winner from 1945. The Lost Weekend was a Billy Wilder hit and, apparently, taught a young America about the newly discovered dangers of alcoholism (heretofore unknown on American soil).
1933’s Cavalcade packs in decades of drama, melodrama, intrigue, war, love, drama, more melodrama, overacting, Stiff Upper Lips, and a pinch of drama. It’s a lot.
Peter O’Toole (King Ralph) headlines David Lean’s epic tale Lawrence of Arabia which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1962. Starring Sir Alec Guinness (Murder by Death), Omar Sharif (The 13th Warrior), and Anthony Quinn (Last Action Hero), this film won 7 Oscars. Nearly every scene will take your breath away.
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, and Joan Crawford headline the movie you’ve all been waiting to hear us discuss! 1932’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Grand Hotel, was nominated for only one award back in 1932 but it was the BIG one!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced changes to their annual Academy Award ceremony this week. The changes were not met with much enthusiasm by the entertainment industry. In this special episode, Danny and Mike react to the bizarre changes announced this week.
Call Me By Your Name is a loving adaptation of a well-regarded novel. It is the 114th biggest movie of the year 2017 (at the domestic box office) and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Timothee Chalamet (Lady Bird) was nominated for Best Actor for his role of Elio, the bored teen who falls for his father's graduate student assistant over a lazy summer in Italy. In the episode, the guys discuss a recent article from the Wall Street Journal regarding the Academy Awards. Find it here.
The Academy Award nominations are out and the guys are on the record with their thoughts and reactions. Check out this special mini episode of the Spoiler Alert Podcast now!
1987 was a bonkers-good year for movies! Take a listen to the episode and hear a list of SO many good movies released that year. The Last Emperor was also released that year. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards and, somehow, won every single one for which it was nominated. Somehow.
Alfred Hitchcock's first American-produced film, Rebecca, was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1940. It won two, for Best Picture and Best Cinematography. Hitchcock himself was nominated for Best Director, an honor which would elude him throughout his career. Sir Laurence Olivier stars as a haunted widower and Joan Fontaine his new wife, both living in the shadow of Rebecca.
The small, quietly wonderful film Brooklyn, nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture, is the focus of Episode 099. Saoirse Ronan stars as a young Irish woman who leaves her home in order to come to America in the early 1950s. Mike now puts this film at the top of this Best Movie list for 2015, so check out the episode and the film.
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2004's Million Dollar Baby is the only Academy Award winner for Best Picture to feature a Morgan Freeman voiceover, which is surprising given the sheer number of options available. Clint Eastwood's tragically powerful boxing tale features great performances from its leads and one of the most insane, out-of-left-field plot turns in cinematic history
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2014 was an incredible year for movies. There were low points, to be sure, but there were some terrific reasons to go to the movies as well. In this episode, the guys discuss their Top 5 and Bottom 5 movies for the year. Check out the episode and share your thoughts in the comments below!