Podcasts about grouches

The Grouches take a look at "Green Book" as a Best Original Screenplay winner. Curious how this might go...

The Grouches watch the next movie in the Best Original Screenplay series, "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" from 2014.

Up next for the Grouches is the Best Original Screenplay winner from 2012, Django Unchained!

The Grouches are joined by returning guest and friend of the podcast, Autumn Cuevas, to discuss the winner of Best Original Screenplay from 2011, Midnight in Paris.

The Grouches re-visit a Best Picture Winner that also won Best Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker from 2009. Joining them this week to provide additional perspective is guest and friend of the pod, David Wray!

The Grouches are injecting the world with a little lactose tolerance as they cover the best original screenplay winner from 2008, Gus Van Sant's "Milk"

The Grouches jump aboard the VW bus to continue down Best Original Screenplay Highway, watching Little Miss Sunshine. Returning guest Peter Burgess joins to share his thoughts!

The Grouches walk further down the best original screenplay path with the next film "Breaking Away"

Many German parents who live abroad would also like their offspring to learn German. It's easier said than done. Nadja Herkner has launched the WELTKINDER project. It helps children all over the world develop lively, active multilingualism. Katharina Lösche asks Nadja what method she uses to motivate little language grouches not only to always answer in English. - Viele deutsche Eltern, die im Ausland leben, möchten, dass ihr Nachwuchs auch Deutsch lernt. Das ist einfacher gesagt, als getan. Nadja Herkner hat das Projekt WELTKINDER ins Leben gerufen. Es hilft, Kindern auf der ganzen Welt, eine lebendige, aktive Mehrsprachigkeit zu entwickeln. Katharina Loesche fragt bei Nadja nach, mit welcher Methode sie die kleinen Sprachmuffel motiviert, nicht nur immer auf Englisch zu antworten.

The Grouches return to another previous best picture winner as they watch "Annie Hall" for best original screenplay

The Grouches return to the best original screenplays with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"

Today the Grouches continue down the path of Best Original Screenplay with "Father Goose"

The Grouches return to another best picture winner as they talk about this week best original screenplay with "The Apartment"

The Grouches continue the journey through best original screenplay with "Pillow Talk"

The Grouches further their path down the best original screenplay as they talk about "The Defiant Ones"

The Grouches continue their path down Best Original Screenplay with "The Red Balloon"

Today the Grouches are ready for the closeups as they talk about the next film in Best Original Screenplay "Sunset Boulevard"

Today the Grouches jump into the trenches as the look back at the next Best Original Screenplay with "Battlegrounds"

Today the Grouches continue their journey down Best Original Screenplay with "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"

The Grouches are on to the next Best Original Screenplay winner with a little known 1944 picture from Switzerland called Marie-Louise

Today the Grouches continue the Best Original Screenplay with "Wilson"

The Grouches go back to visit the last film Kurosawa worked on before his directorial debut, but confusion and frustration lead to a little in-house mayhem on this episode.

Today the Grouches stick around the classics as they watch the next Best Original Screenplay with "Princess O'Rourke"

In the last days of World War 2, with Japanese infrastructure suffering and movie studios with little resources, Kurosawa proposed a film that could be shot on one stage with a script he wrote in one night. How did it turn out? Let's see what the Grouches discover!

Today we celebrate the spiciest of Grouches with a couple of picks from Zach's childhood with "Snoopy Come Home" and "Barton Fink"

Akira Kurosawa rushes out his first sequel, which happens to be a follow up to his first film. The Grouches rush out this episode of them reacting to it. Does it live up to its predecessor? Does it deserve any hype at all? Is this an unsung early movie in the filmography of our intrepid director? Only one way to find out!

The Grouches keep continuing downt he Best Original Sceenplay with "Woman of the Year"

Have you ever wondered what WWII Japanese propaganda looked like? The Grouches have you covered with this week's episode on "The Most Beautiful." Akira Kurosawa looks at the lives of Japanese factory workers making lenses for the war machine, and the guys discuss the film's place in cinema.

Roll out the red carpet! The Grouches have a new director to fixate over! It's time to welcome the Legendary Akira Kurosawa to the podcast! They're starting with his directing debut, Sanshiro Sugata. How do they feel about the start of the career of one of the most influential directors to ever sit behind a camera? The only way to find out is to listen.

The Grouches embark on a new Oscar category with Best Original Screenplay! First up is "The Great McGinty" from 1940.

This week the Grouches are covering the directorial debut of the great Whoopi Goldberg! She made an HBO documentary about legendary comedy pioneer, Moms Mabley. They cover everything form her murky origins, to her wide spread impact through the last 100 years. I hope you wanted to hear three white guys in their 30's talk about an influential black woman talking about an influential black woman! Because we heard there was a shortage of it on the internet.

Today the Grouches finish up the Best Animated Feature for now with "Guillermo del Toro's: Pinnochio"

Banks is on a little vacation and so Trav and D grab their guy Mr. Paul Workman from The Oscar Worsty Podcast to celebrate May the 4th and talk Star Wars, Twisted Metal, a little bit of Mortal Kombat and so much more!As always make sure you support the podcast by giving us a 5 star rating and subscribing to us on Apple Podcast, it really helps us out in the algorithms. You can also listen on all other podcast platforms by clicking the link below:https://pod.link/levelingupbanksAlso, make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel where we post a brand new video everyday and upload the video portion of this episode on Friday. You can find that by clicking the link below:https://www.youtube.com/c/LevelingUpwithBenjaminBanksSupport the show

Thursese is back, baby! We pick up on our beloved knower of cinema as he captures the birthday performance of Legendary punk pioneer, David Johansen. The hook is, he's covering his own music under the guise of his alter ego, one-hit wonder, Dexter Poindexter. See where the Grouches stand on the music, the performance, the man, and the legend.

Today the Grouches are joined by returning guest Benjamin Banks as they discuss the next Best Animated Feature "Soul"

Sally Field has been a lot of things in her career: A two-time Oscar winner, surfer girl, a flying nun, a union organizer, Julia Roberts's mom, Tom Hanks's mom, 80 for Brady, and, for a time, a director. This week the Grouches are looking back at that time with the "Wonderful World of Disney" original movie, "The Christmas Tree." Listen to see what they think about this mid-90's made-for-TV movie starring that one guy from "Weekend at Bernie's." No. The other guy.

Today the Grouches continue their journey through the Best Animated Feature with "Toy Story 4"

Are you ready to hear what the Grouches have in Store this week? They're watching the Netflix Original film, Unicorn Store, directed by Oscar-winner Brie Larson, of course! And I'm sure all of them are on board for whatever this film has to offer. So gallop on over, and hang with Zach, Trav, and Paul for a bit. Maybe they'll help you rebuild that playhouse in the backyard of your parents' house.

Today the Grouches welcome the return of Manny Classic as they discuss the next Best Animated Feature "Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse"

Today the Grouches are still down by one, but they  soldier on and talk about their next Best Animated Feature "Coco"

It has been a long, strange journey through the filmography of Jack Nicholson, but we have finally reached the end. Trav and Paul try to muddle through without Zach, but they find the courage to cover "The Two Jakes." It is the long delayed sequel to the 70's masterpiece, "Chinatown," and The Grouches will see how it compares to that, and the rest of Nicholson's directing output.

Today the Grouches return to the Best Picture category as they talk about 2022's Best Picture Winner "Everything Everywhere All At Once"

Today the Grouches look at their next film in the Best Animated Feature with "Zootopia"

After last week's review fake out, The Grouches are covering Jack Nicholson's real directing debut. Do the Grouches like this Vietnam era comedy/drama about the pressures of basketball and the draft? I guess the only way you'll find out is if you listen!

The Grouches have finished with Denzel Washington's filmography, and are now moving on to the directing efforts of Jack Nicholson. This week they will be covering the Roger Corman produced horror movie, "The Terror." How does it stack up in the grand scheme of the podcast? What do the guys have to say about its slapdash approach to filmmaking? Did Paul just trick Trav and Zach into watching a Roger Corman movie, because iMDB said it had Nicholson involved in a minor directing roll? All this, and more, lies ahead!

Today the Grouches continue watching the Best Animated Features with "Big Hero 6"

Denzel follows up the Oscar-winning "Fences" with a film based on a book, based on the journal of a fallen soldier. This time, though, he doesn't cast himself, and chooses to stay behind the camera. After three consensus hits, can Washington keep his directing streak alive? Or will the Grouches find this film lacking?

Today the Grouches let it go by watching the next film in the Best Animated Feature category "Frozen"

The Grouches are back with another week of Denzel! The two time Oscar Winner is chasing more gold with his adaptation of August Wilson's award-winning play, "Fences." How do they think the Academy treated it? Did Denzel do Wilson justice? Does anyone sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame?" You can only find out if you listen!

Denzel is back with his second directorial effort. This time his focus is the first HBCU debate team to take on a white college. The Grouches do their best to navigate the subject matter of southern racism of the early 20th century.