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It Happened One Night (1934)
Season 4 Episode 68
Romantic-screwball comedies had to start sometime ... and that sometime was early 1934. And there was a film that took Hollywood by storm ... Frank C…
1 year, 7 months ago
Parasite (2019)
Season 4 Episode 67
It took over nine decades for the Academy to award the Best Picture of the year to a foreign language film. And although there were hundreds of bril…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ben-Hur (1959)
Season 4 Episode 66
Well, here's a film that won the Best Picture Oscar that was actually a remake. The was the epic silent version in 1925, but it's the 1959 Biblical c…
1 year, 8 months ago
All the King's Men (1949)
Season 4 Episode 65
Here is a film that is eerily similar to what has been happening in the United States political world since 2016. The movie is All the King's Men, a …
1 year, 8 months ago
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Season 4 Episode 64
Listen to film critic Jack Ferdman's take on it as he analyzes everything about 12 Years a Slave as well as many other films from that year, and hear…
1 year, 9 months ago
Gandhi (1982)
Season 4 Episode 63
Another year ... another biopic wins Best Picture. This time it's Gandhi's turn. A film that covers 50 years of a man who has been revered by millio…
1 year, 9 months ago
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Season 4 Episode 62
There literally was no other year like it. When you look at the list of films that were released in the calendar year of 1939, well, the films most p…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bonus Episode 8: TIFF2024
Season 4 Episode 61
Film critic and historian, Jack Ferdman, loves this time of year! He's a proud Torontonian ... so why wouldn't he love early September? It's not ju…
1 year, 10 months ago
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Season 4 Episode 60
Biopics Biopics Biopics! The Academy loves biopics. There are so many that have been nominated for Oscars ... and even some that have won the top p…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Season 4 Episode 59
There are a lot of Best Picture winners that are big, bold, and epic in size. Well, in 1936, MGM made something pretty big ... and long. A film that…
1 year, 11 months ago