The Film Podcast

We discuss the film Compliance and Side by Side, the documentary on the war waging over film or digital movie production.

Episode 11 - Running down Best Picture - The Social Network, The King's Speech, The Fighter - also True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld and Sofia Coppola's Somewhere.

Episode 10 - Oscar year 1971 - A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, The Last Picture Show

The Oscar year 1969 - 1970, Midnight Cowboy and Patton

Black Swan premiere as part of the AFI Fest.

The Oscar year 1964 when Dr. Strangelove lost Best Picture to My Fair Lady, also Becket

We talk about one of the years Oscar split between Picture and Director, specifically the Life of Emile Zola, we look at the indulgences in Please Give and wonder if liberal guilt is worth pitying, and we also dive deep into Catfish, to discover if it was exploitative or not.

We talk our favorite horror films - The Exorcist, Psycho, The Shining and more. A Special Halloween Edition.

A plug for Winter's Bone, some words about Danny Boyle's latest, 127 Hours, and finally we talk about Animal Kingdom and then devolve into laughter.

Hereafter, much better than the critics are saying. How to Train Your Dragon as the Best Animated Film of the Year and Fair Game.

Social Network as Best Picture Frontrunner? Must-sees for this weekend - Let Me In, Inside Job and Tamara Drewe. Oscar blogging - ethical or not? And Craig reviews Conviction, starring Hillary Swank and Sam Rockwell.

Movies and Oscar!

In this podcast we discuss many things, including The Town's Best Picture prospects.

An in-depth discussion of The Help, how it will impact the Oscar race and whether it deserves the criticism it's been getting. We also talk some about our favorite films of the year so far, like Tree of Life and Drive

We discuss Moneyball, Straw Dogs - both Peckinpah and Lurie's versions, and a little on David Fincher and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trailer