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Critical Darlings: Sentimental Value and Belated Oscar Breakthroughs with Joe Reid
This week we’re in hygge mode, uncovering traumas in our generational home with the host of This Had Oscar Buzz, Joe Reid! One of the breakout Oscar …
12 hours ago
Die My Love with Alison Willmore
Our Lynne Ramsay series comes to a close with last year's Die My Love, which brings us to the realization - damn, have we really never talked about J…
4 days, 12 hours ago
Critical Darlings: The Secret Agent And The Increasingly International Academy
Viva Brazil! Today we discuss Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent, the simmering, colorful Brazilian thriller about a man on the run, starring the …
1 week ago
You Were Never Really Here with Sean Clements
In 2018, Lynne Ramsay released You Were Never Really Here, a film about a completely implausible scenario...a townhouse on the East side of Manhattan…
1 week, 4 days ago
Critical Darlings: Frankenstein And The Craft Category Juggernauts with Bilge Ebiri
This week we’re brooding, Victorian style, with Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri! Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a Best Picture nominee and is well repres…
2 weeks ago
We Need To Talk About Kevin with Jia Tolentino
The time has come for us to talk about Kevin. The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino joins us to talk about Lynne Ramsay's depiction of every parent's worst …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Critical Darlings: Bugonia And The (Oscar) Favourites with Marie Bardi-Salinas
Honey, we’re buzzing about Bugonia with Marie Bardi-Salinas! The movie surprised us with its appeal to Oscar voters, but maybe it shouldn’t have: Dir…
3 weeks ago
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Almost four years ago, Producer Ben Hosley watched Sam Raimi's "A Simple Plan" and proclaimed that if he'd been in that scenario, everything would ha…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Critical Darlings: Train Dreams, And Netflix’s Quest For Best Picture
On today’s show, Richard and Alison hop on a boxcar and stare wistfully as the 20th century passes them by with Best Picture nominee Train Dreams. Th…
4 weeks ago
Morvern Callar with Emily Yoshida
Mommy's back! Emily Yoshida joins the gang to talk about 2002's Morvern Callar, a surprisingly tender film about grief, starting over, and taking a J…
1 month ago